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Clubhouse members and advocates urge City Council to baseline funding and expand peer-led crisis response
Summary
Members, service providers and advocates told the City Council's committees on mental health and substance use and disabilities that baseline funding and expansion of peer-led crisis services (including mobile teams and the Be Heard program) are needed. Witnesses requested specific increases in peer-support and mobile-response budgets.
Dozens of service users, program staff and advocates testified to the committees on mental health, substance use and disabilities that baseline funding is critical for the city's network of mental health clubhouses and peer programs, and many called for reducing police involvement in crisis response.
Charles de San Pedro Jr., a member of Top Clubhouse, opened the panel with a personal appeal — "I love Top. It means so much" — urging the council to baseline funding so members do not face program closures. Hadley Weiss, program coordinator for Top Clubhouse, said members are "deeply afraid that the clubhouse will be taken from them" and asked for stable funding so members can continue to build relationships,…
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