The City will pour resources into the new site, which can offer treatment or a ride to jail
People arrested for using or dealing drugs on San Francisco streets will now be whisked away to a temporary “mobile triage center” where they will enter treatment or be taken to jail.
People arrested for drug-related reasons will be taken to the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot, where officials say they will be able to be connected to shelter and other services they might need. Code Tenderloin’s Night Navigation program, which launched last year, deploys teams nightly in the Tenderloin to connect those struggling with substance-abuse issues with treatment. While the program doesn’t include a police presence, Rice said that SFPD has already been helpful in bringing people to the organization if they’re willing to accept treatment.
The administration has not announced a cost for the SoMa drop-off program or detailed a funding mechanism. SF native to lead symphony’s Lunar New Year concert Francesco Lecce-Chong conducts in Year of the Snake celebration Vitka Eisen, the CEO of HealthRIGHT 360, a medical provider that offers residential treatment beds in The City, confirmed to The Examiner that at least two of the 22 total slots at the addiction-treatment center SoMa RISE that will be set aside for those who are going to be brought to them through the pilot. Eisen said HealthRIGHT has been asked to increase the total to four.
One concern she expressed is that some people who might be brought to them through the pilot might not want to stop using drugs yet, and might opt to come just because they’re looking for a safe place off the street to avoid further displacement from law enforcement. She said that happens because people need to be sober in order to enter a residential-treatment program, and there’s already a “bottleneck” in the number of beds available in these programs that help people transition into treatment.
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