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Committee approves forwarding $300,000 RWJF grant to evaluate San Francisco Street Crisis Response Team
Summary
The committee voted to send a resolution to the full Board to retroactively accept a $300,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to evaluate the Street Crisis Response Team, an SCRT pilot that dispatches behavioral health clinicians paired with paramedics and peer specialists from 911 to divert crises from police.
The Budget & Finance Committee on Feb. 17 voted to forward to the full Board a resolution authorizing the Department of Public Health to accept and expend a $300,000 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to evaluate San Francisco’s Street Crisis Response Team (SCRT).
Dr. Matthew Goldman, medical director for comprehensive crisis services at San Francisco DPH, presented the award and the planned evaluation. He said the SCRT pairs a behavioral health…
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