PRC

PRC’s expansion of addiction and recovery services builds critical accessibility for San Francisco’s most disconnected and vulnerable low- and no-income adults. Scaling up wraparound services and increasing capacity by 30%, we can engage up to 1,000 more people per year in a more effective treatment continuum. Real solutions are cumulative rather than instantaneous. Of San Francisco’s 8,000+ homeless individuals, 41% report substance use disorders and 39% mental illness. Among the chronically homeless, these percentages increase to 65 and 63, respectively. By addressing substance use and mental illness simultaneously, PRC will: - decrease untreated substance use disorders among poverty-level and homeless San Franciscans - increase vulnerable adults accessing substance use treatment and beginning recovery - increase vulnerable adults accessing wraparound support to ensure ongoing success - decrease unsheltered homeless adults in San Francisco In 2018, PRC’s detox program decreased homelessness among program participants by 50%, and ElevateSF will build on these results across PRC’s treatment continuum. Research by the National Institutes of Health indicates that linking substance use treatment with wraparound services such as financial, employment, legal, mental health, and medical support improves both retention in treatment as well as treatment outcomes. PRC’s innovative and replicable model of care brings this model into residential treatment programs. The impact of Elevate SF is in bringing together the public and private sectors to simultaneously increase both treatment and wraparound support to increase the number of individuals (particularly the street homeless, who are in recovery from addiction) who are stably housed, and able to reintegrate into mainstream society.