This mixed methods study will examine the effectiveness and acceptability of the Street Crisis Response Team (SCRT), a new 911-dispatched multidisciplinary mobile crisis intervention piloted in San Francisco, California. First, using quantitative data from electronic health...
January 17, 2024 / 5:45 PM PST / CBS San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO – Health officials in San Francisco noted a grim milestone in the city's opioid crisis, as the city experienced more overdose deaths last year than ever before. According to the city's Depa...
In a statement Friday, Newsom said the CHP will allocate a new team of officers to work with San Francisco police on drug trafficking enforcement in the city's Tenderloin District and other areas of the city. Other CHP units will also provide "supplemental patrol in key areas of the city,"...
Protecting corporate reputation by providing senior-level crisis communications support, including preparation and planning, response and recovery
It is a problem across the Bay Area, but the fentanyl crisis is hitting San Francisco especially hard, with the city reporting August was one of its deadliest months for overdoses.
Updated on: May 17, 2024 / 6:19 AM PDT / CBS San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO -- Kenneth Franklin has been given a second chance at life and he's using it to give others a second chance too. "Repaying my debt back to society so I never look at it as me giving someone something --...
In January 2018 a United Nations special rapporteur on homelessness, Leilani Farha, stated that she was "completely shocked" by San Francisco's homelessness crisis during a visit to the city. She compared the "deplorable conditions" of the homeless camps she witnessed on San Francisco's streets...
Among them is Fuad Ateyeh, a 54-year resident of San Francisco and a refugee from Palestine, who finds himself haunted by the echoes of the past as he watches the crisis unfold. "The images I see today are the same images we've seen for 75 years," said At...
San FranciscoMayor London Breed unveiled a series of new street safety initiatives, as the city marked the first decade of its failed Vision Zero program. The Bay Area city was the first in California to announce a Vision Zero program,committing to eliminating traffic deaths by this year. ...
Vancouver -- much like San Francisco -- has become one of the epicenters of the drug crisis. In both cities, fentanyl has been the primary driver of the overdose surge over the past ten years, But Vancouver, and British Columbia, have responded differently, using approaches we of...