The Network of Support for Community Living is a community-wide, multi-lingual Web site that offers a treasure trove of information, links, and advocacy tools for seniors and persons with disabilies,including:

• Service Directory — A Who’s Who of local organizations and community resources for consumers, caregivers and service providers — organized by categories.
• Links — A fast lane to the Web sites of local, state and national organizations that serve seniors and people with disabilities.
• Library — Information and medical articles on topics associated with aging and disabilities, including a section specifically for caregivers.
• Legislate — Direct links to legislators and a system for tracking state and federal legislation.
• Assistive Devices — A database of assistive tools, searchable by function and brand.
• “My Folder” — A password-protected section for users to store medical and emergency information.
• News — Top state and national headlines about the elderly, persons with disabilities, caregivers, and providers.

The San Francisco Human Services Network is an association of more than 110 community-based nonprofit agencies — including the Consortium — dedicated to addressing issues critical to health and human services. The following is a list of member organizations:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

• The Arc of San Francisco
  Serves, supports and advocates for individuals with developmental disabilities.
  
  
• Arriba Juntos
  Provides occupational training and employment programs. Founded to meet needs of the Latino immigrants in the Mission, but today serves ethnic groups and cultures citywide.
  
  
• Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center
  Educates, supports, and advocates for Asian and Pacific Islander communities — particularly A&PIs living with, or at-risk for, HIV/AIDS. Offers HIV/STD testing, free and confidential HIV treatment case management, mental health, and substance abuse counseling.
  
  
• Asian Perinatal Advocates
  Hospital-based agency offering bilingual/bicultural in-home family support and follow-up medical liaison services for Asian/Pacific Islander families and children. Locations at San Francisco General Hospital and in Chinatown.
  
  
• Baker Places, Inc.
  Provides services, supportive housing, and independent-living preparation to people struggling with mental illness, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS-related issues through direct services, volunteerism and partnerships.
  
  
• Bay Area Community Resources
  Promotes youth development, mental health, and drug/alcohol prevention and treatment through direct services, volunteerism and partnerships in the Bay Area.
  
  
• Bayview Hunters Point Foundation
  Provides social and human services, including legal assistance, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, and mental health care, to residents of Bayview/Hunters Point and the greater San Francisco area.
  
  
• Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
  Provides services to seniors, youth, and others most at-risk to preserve ethnic, cultural, and economic diversity and well-being of Bernal Heights community.
  
  
• Booker T. Washington Community Service Center
  Provides after-school tutoring, computer, recreation, counseling, and referral services and health. Food Pantry program provides groceries to families in need.
  
  
• Burt Children’s Center
  Provides intensive therapy, milieu therapy, residential care, and day treatment/special education services to emotionally disturbed children.
  
  
• Catholic Charities/CYO
  Operates more than 30 programs that support families, aging and disabled adults, and youth through social services and youth athletics/camp. Serves all faiths.
  
  
• Center for Human Development
  Provides support to youth through peer support and group facilitation. Mentors meet at school sites to assist with projects, facilitate education, and provide tutoring.
  
  
• Central City Hospitality House
  Serves the homeless community in the Tenderloin with peer-led programs and advocacy efforts, including drop-in self-help center, shelter for homeless, and employment and community arts programs.
  
  
• Children’s Council of San Francisco
  Provides free, multilingual resources and referrals for families seeking child care. Helps pay for child care for low-income families and training for care providers.
  
  
• CLAER Project
  Community Leadership Academy Emergency Response (CLAER) provides referral hot line and door-to-door case management to individuals affected by violence in Visitacion Valley and San Francisco’s southeastern neighborhoods.
  
  
• Community Housing Partnership
  Provides affordable housing, on-site support services, and job training to formerly homeless persons. Owns and/or operates 329 units of permanent, supportive housing.
  
  
• Community Vocational Enterprises
  Provides classroom, group, individual, and on-the-job training, support and employment to individuals with mental-health disabilities, empowering them to fulfill their employment potential.
  
  
• Compass Community Services
  Operates programs for homeless and at-risk families, including a homeless shelter, citywide shelter-access center, prevention and aftercare services, transitional housing, and child development and education center.
  
  
• CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
  Provides consulting, research, and training for nonprofits to develop tools, strategies, and resources to lead change in their communities.
  
  
• Conard House
  Helps people self-manage mental illness by providing residential treatment program for adults leaving a hospital or institutional care and permanent housing with counseling, community involvement, and service coordination.
  
  
• Continuum
  Provides programs and services for persons with HIV/AIDS, including mobile health care, home care, case management, testing and prevention, and transitional services for people being released from jail or prison.
  
  
• Council of Community Housing Organizations
  A 24-member organization comprised of affordable housing developers and advocates seeking housing and community development opportunities for homeless and low-income San Franciscans.
  
  
• Curry Senior Center
  Multi-purpose center with primary medical care clinic. Provides medical treatment, counseling/socialization, translation services, and meals to low-income and frail elderly residents in the Tenderloin.
  
  
• Edgewood Center for Children and Families
  Provides residential and outpatient services for children with emotional, behavioral, and communication disturbances and their families.
  
  
• Episcopal Community Services
  Helps homeless and low-income women and men, seniors, and families move toward housing and greater stability with shelters, meals, permanent supportive housing, education, vocational training, and support services.
  
  
• Faithful Fools Street Ministry
  Operates street ministry and after-school care and arts programs for the Tenderloin and surrounding communities.
  
  
• Family Service Agency, San Francisco
  Provides array of programs for children and youth, teen parents, families in crisis, individuals with HIV, the mentally ill, the abused, the disabled, and the aging and their families.
  
  
• Florence Crittenton Services
  Provides low-income families with life skills education and vocational training, job placement, subsidized child care, parent/fatherhood support services, and youth empowerment and pregnancy prevention programs.
  
  
• GoldenH Gate Community, Inc.
  Provides job-readiness programs for at-risk youth and homeless, including job-seeking workshops, on-the-job training, and internships with agency-run businesses.
  
  
• Golden Gate Senior Services
  Operates centers in the Castro and Richmond districts for seniors and adults with disabilities, providing outreach services, educational/recreational programs, health screening, tax assistance, and low-cost lunches.
  
  
• Goodwill Industries
  Operates stores and enterprises and provides programs and services to educate, train and help people overcome barriers to employment and build sustainable livelihoods.
  
  
• Haight Ashbury Free Clinic, Inc.
  Operates medical clinic, substance-abuse treatment services, jail psychiatric services, pharmacological and treatment research, education, training, and on-site medical service for concerts and public events.
  
  
• Hamilton Family Center
  Operates emergency shelters and transitional housing for homeless and provides case management, child care, counseling, housing referral, advocacy, and financial assistance.
  
  
• Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California
  Provides audiological services and hearing aid dispensing, speech and language therapy for children and adults, preschool for children with hearing loss, and counseling and outreach programs.
  
  
• Holy Family Day Home
  Provides affordable early childhood education and family support services to children three months to six years from working poor families.
  
  
• Honoring Emancipated Youth
  Advocacy coalition working to improve the opportunities for youth leaving the foster care system. Engages former foster youth and conducts public education and outreach activities.
  
  
• Huckleberry Youth Programs
  Serves at-risk adolescents and their families. Programs include shelter for runaways and “pushouts,” adolescent health clinic, individual and family counseling, family reunification, and parent support groups.
  
  
• Human Services Network
  Association of more than 110 community-based nonprofit agencies united to address issues critical to the health and human services sector of San Francisco.
  
  
• Immune Enhancement Project
  Promotes Traditional Chinese Medicine and other healing arts. Provides free acupuncture, therapeutic massage and herbal therapy for individuals in severe need, underserved, homeless, and individuals with chronic acute illnesses.
  
  
• Independent Living Resource Center, SanFrancisco
  Disability rights advocacy and support organization. Provides independent living skills training, personal assistance, housing assistance, peer counseling, and information and referral services.
  
  
• In-Home Supportive Services Public Authority
  Provides a registry of independent home care workers and on-call substitute workers for IHSS consumers, emergency IHSS for discharged hospital patients, and workshops/training for customers and workers.
  
  
• Institute on Aging
  Provides health and social services to seniors, including adult day health centers, case management, home care, Alzheimer’s programs, elder care prevention, counseling and support groups, and referral services.
  
  
• Instituto Laboral de la Raza
  Workers’ rights organization and a drop-in center provides labor rights education and economic empowerment tools to the working poor and unemployed, including immigrant workers from Mexico, Central America, and South America.
  
  
• International Institute of SF
  Provides legal immigration, naturalization, acculturation/social assistance and English as a Second Language (ESL) services to immigrants and refugees.
  
  
• Japanese Community Youth Council
  Provides cultural, educational, recreational, and vocational services for Japanese American children and youth, including pre-school, summer teen, and college preparatory programs.
  
  
• Jewish Community Relations Council
  Educational and advocacy organization offers leadership development program to advance social justice issues and build community ties.
  
  
• Jewish Family & Children’s Services
  Provides counseling, home care, adoptions, parenting, loans, citizenship, volunteers, and other services for children, seniors, and families.
  
  
• Jewish Vocational Service
  Provides employment preparation, job search guidance, job development, placement assistance, follow-up support, computer training, VESL. Special outreach to the Jewish community.
  
  
• Juma Ventures
  Provides youth development program through agency-owned businesses, college and career services, and financial education and savings programs.
  
  
• Kimochi, Inc.
  Provides senior services, including in-home supportive services, residential/respite care, home-delivered meals, transportation, and social services. Operates Japantown senior centers.
  
  
• La Casa de las Madres
  Operates domestic violence shelter for women and their children and 24-hr. crisis hot line. Provides advocacy, counseling, family-based services, and referrals.
  
  
• Larkin Street Youth Services
  Provides services for homeless and runaway youth, including emergency shelter, permanent supportive housing; education, technology and employment training; healthcare, including mental health, substance abuse and HIV services; and case management.
  
  
• Legal Services for Children
  Provides legal representation and social-work services to children and youth in cases involving legal guardianship, dependency, school discipline, immigration, emancipation, and restraining order proceedings.
  
  
• LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
  Promotes the independence, equality and self-reliance of people who are blind or visually impaired through rehabilitation training and access to employment, education, government, information, recreation, and transportation.
  
  
• Lutheran Social Services of Northern California
  Offers case management in transitional and permanent supportive housing sites, housing services for emancipating foster care youth, and disaster preparedness training.
  
  
• Marian Wright Edelman Institute
  Addresses the needs of children, youth and families through collaborations between San Francisco State University and the community. Offers an interdisciplinary program on child and adolescent development.
  
  
• Mission Neighborhood Centers
  Provides social services to all ages, with a focus on low-income minority children, youth and the elderly of the Mission District. Operates senior and youth community centers.
  
  
• Music in Schools Today
  Promotes music education for youth in schools and in the community, including Adopt-an-Instrument campaign, Understanding Cultures program, and work with at-risk youth.
  
  
• New Leaf: Services for Our Community
  Provides mental health, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and other social support services to LGBT individuals and families who cannot afford private therapy or support services.
  
  
• North & South of Market Adult Day Health
  Provides adult day health care programs at Golden Gate, Mabini, Mission Creek, and Presentation Day Heath Centers for low-income and frail elders and people with disabilities.
  
  
• Northern California Service League
  Provides in-jail and post-release education, intervention, life skills training, job development/placement, transitional housing, children’s services, substance abuse counseling, and other social services.
  
  
• On Lok Senior Health Services
  Provides health plan for frail and impaired elderly that includes full medical care, prescription drugs, adult day health services, home care and other support services.
  
  
• Pets Are Wonderful Support
  Provides services for low-income persons with HIV/AIDS and other debilitating illnesses and their animal companions, including dog walking and veterinary care.
  
  
• Planned Parenthood Golden Gate
  Provides sexual and reproductive health care, including family planning, gynecological care, STI/STD testing and treatment, pregnancy testing, and abortion services.
  
  
• Planning for Elders in the Central City
  Coalition of service providers, seniors, caregivers, and government & community leaders addressing needs of elderly and people with disabilities. Convenes IHSS and Health Task Forces, and directs Senior Survival School.
  
  
• Positive Resource Center
  Work referral agency for people with HIV/AIDS provides employment and vocational planning, counseling, job placement, and ancillary support services.
  
  
• Progress Foundation
  Provides alternative community treatment and rehabilitation program for seriously mentally disabled individuals.
  
  
• Project Open Hand
  Provides meals, groceries and nutritional counseling for clients with HIV/AIDS, delivers meals to critically-ill and homebound clients, and provides lunches for seniors.
  
  
• Rebuilding Together SF
  Provides free home repair and renovation programs for low-income, elderly and disabled San Franciscans and for nonprofit and neighborhood facilities.
  
  
• Religious Witness with Homeless People
  Interfaith group working in support of just treatment, civil rights, and housing opportunities for people who are homeless.
  
  
• Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS)
  Provides mental health, vocational, social, residential, and educational services for Richmond district residents and the Asian, Pacific Islander, and Russian-speaking communities.
  
  
• Salvation Army
  Services includes residence and meal programs for seniors, alcohol and drug rehabilitation programs for adults, social services, youth programs, and disaster response.
  
  
• San Francisco Adult Day Services Network Services Network
  Association of 13 agencies providing neighborhood-based health and social services to help adults with chronic conditions and disabilities maintain independent living.
  
  
• San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center
  Operates a 24-hour parental stress and counseling hot line and provides intervention and support services to combat child abuse and relationship violence.
  
  
• San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium
  Supports a partnership of 10 clinics that provide primary care services in underserved neighborhoods. Provides street outreach, health education, and technical assistance.
  
  
• San Francisco Conservation Corps
  Job and academic training organization enlists young people ages 18-26 for outreach, conservation and community service projects throughout the city.
  
  
• San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium
  Collaboration of 18 domestic violence service agencies that provide emergency shelter, transitional housing, crisis lines, counseling, prevention programs, education, and legal assistance.
  
  
• San Francisco Food Bank
  Distributes food to low-income families, individuals, and local nonprofit programs. Operates Brown Bag program for low-income seniors, Emergency Food Box for people in crisis situations, and Neighborhood Grocery Network for families in need.
  
  
• San Francisco Partnership for Community-Based Care & Support
  Network of more than 70 private and public organizations working to improve community-based services for older adults and adults with disabilities. Workgroups include: Case Management Collaboration, Homecare Workforce Recruitment and Retention, Neighborhood Partnerships Implementation, and Public Relations and Marketing Implementation.
  
  
• San Francisco Study Center
  Provides research, editorial, graphic arts and fiscal sponsorship services to nonprofits, foundations, and public agencies.
  
  
• San Francisco Suicide Prevention
  Operates eight 24-hour crisis lines for suicide prevention, drug intervention/counseling, HIV/AIDS concerns/referrals, and other concerns.
  
  
• Shanti
  Provides services for people living with HIV/AIDS and breast cancer, including a drop-in center, peer and treatment advocacy, case management, and health counseling.
  
  
• St. Anthony Foundation
  Operates dining room, free medical clinic, employment program/learning center, senior services, social work center, women’s shelter, and clothing and furniture programs.
  
  
• St. Luke’s Hospital Foundation
  Supports the charitable and community health care mission of St. Luke’s Hospital and health clinics in the Mission District and southeastern San Francisco.
  
  
• St. Vincent de Paul Society
  Operates homeless shelter, services for battered women and their children, low-income housing, drug and alcohol detoxification, and clothing and emergency supplies.
  
  
• Support for Families of Children with Disabilities
  Supports families of children with disabilities or special health care needs with hot line, resource libraries, support groups, parent mentors, clinics, and mental health services.
  
  
• Swords to Plowshares
  Provides counseling and case management, shelter, employment, training, housing, and legal assistance to veterans.
  
  
• Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center
  Provides emergency, transitional, and permanent housing; on-site medical/nursing services; syringe exchange; mental health and substance use treatment; and psychosocial support.
  
  
• Toolworks
  Provides job training and employment in janitorial and related occupations, independent living skills, and day activity programs for individuals with disabilities.
  
  
• Treasure Island Homeless Development Initiative
  Collaboration of more than 20 community agencies formed to develop housing, employment, and economic development opportunities on Treasure Island for the homeless.
  
  
• Veterans Equity Center
  Services the needs of Filipino World War II veterans with health workshops, assistance getting benefits, food distribution, and legal clinic.
  
  
• Visitation Valley Community Development Corp.
  Promotes and coordinates Visitacion Valley neighborhood revitalization efforts through housing, services and community development.
  
  
• Walden House
  Provides rehabilitative services to individuals with drug and alcohol problems, including detoxification, residential stabilization, mental health services, and medical care.
  
  
• Women’s Community Clinic
  Provides health care for women, by women, including routine annual exams, treatment of gynecological concerns, and screening for sexually transmitted infections.
  
  
• Wu Yee Children’s Services
  Provides childcare services to low-income families and operates resource center and child development program.
  
  
• YMCA of San Francisco
  San Francisco division operates 15 branches providing health, sports, camping, senior, job readiness, child care, individual and family counseling, and substance-abuse programs.
  
  
• YWCA of San Francisco
  Offers after-school, youth leadership, and 50-Plus employment programs and provides subsidized housing for low income seniors.
  

Partnership

San Francisco is home to some of the most innovative and progressive community-based long-term care programs in the nation. To coordinate and improve delivery of services, representatives from more than 70 private and public organizations — including the Consortium — meet regularly under the umbrella of the San Francisco Partnership for Community-Based Care & Support.

The Partnership was formed in May 2004, funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As members of the Partnership, the Consortium and other organizations recognize we are part of a network of service providers larger than our individual agencies. We are able to minimize service gaps and duplication, share information, and obtain resources.