Immediate Needs After Release

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Have you or someone you care for recently gotten out of jail in SF, and are you looking for resources & services for your IMMEDIATE NEEDS in the city?

Check out these resources below!

Hungry?

No New SF Jail Coalition has an awesome guide already!
- We’ve been posting lamented copies of this bi-lingual guide outside of County Jail 1 (at 7th & Bryant). Check out this page of website here for more info on this bi-lingual resource guide connecting people to some resources for their immediate needs.

Need Health Insurance?

Human Services Agency office:
- 1440 Harrison / 1235 Mission Service Center
- COVID NOTE: Applications currently accepted by phone (415-558-4700), online, by email (SFMedi-Cal@sfgov.org), Fax (415-355-2432) or mail (Human Services Agency, P.O. Box 7988, San Francisco, CA 94120)
If you have pending appointments or immediate health needs, you may be able to get temporary coverage through your provider if your insurance was turned off (e.g. San Francisco General Hospital).
POLICY NOTE: New developments potentially on their way with Mental Health SF
- Could potentially help people connect more quickly with support regardless of coverage throughout reentry

Need to refill your prescription?

(Talk with your primary care provider, if you have one.)
Treatment Access Program (TAP)/ CBHS Pharmacy:
- 1380 Howard (@10th)
- 1-800-750-2727; 415-503-4730
Westside Crisis Clinic
- 245 11th Street
- Phone: 415-355-0311
- Hours : 8:00am-2:00pm Monday-Friday; Saturday, Sunday and Holidays are closed

Need to reactivate your income?

Apply for County Adult Assistance Programs (CAAP)
- 1235 Mission Street
- COVID UPDATE: online applications only, can call 415-558-2227 for support

Reactivating SSI:
- 90 7th St / 1098 Valencia St (online services)
- Before going to into the office, try to have:
  - Proof of incarceration (a document with dates from your lawyer, jail services, or probation officer)
  - An ID (support through Project Homeless Connect, St. Anthony, Hospitality House – see below)

Need Advocacy around your benefits?

Positive Resource Center
- 170 9th Street
- 415-777-0333
Homeless Advocacy Project
- 125 Hyde Street
- 415-575-3130
- drop-in Tuesdays 1-4pm

Need with other basic needs met? (Hygiene supplies, vouchers, problem-solving aid, etc. )

Project Homeless Connect:
- 1031 Franklin Street (Entrance at Franklin and O’Farrell);
- Resource line 1-855-588-7968;
- service calendar
- AWESOME RESOURCE GUIDE with COVID UPDATES

Glide
- 330 Ellis Street (Main Building)
- 415-674-6000;
- Check here for COVID UPDATES

St. Anthony’s
- 121 Golden Gate Ave;
- 415-592-2855;

Hospitality House:
- 169 Sixth Street
  - 415-369-3040
- 290 Turk Street
  - 415-749-2143

Homeless Prenatal Project: serves clients with children under 17. Can provide assistance with deposits for rent and food bags. If children are under 3 years old, HPP can provide formula and diapers.
- 415-754-0581

Need urgent mental health support?

Go to your nearest emergency room or PES at SFGH if you are in crisis
If the situation is not an emergency but you think it may become one, please call the Department of Public Health’s 24-Hour Access helpline: 415-255-3737 or 888-246-3333 or TDD 888-484-7200

Westside Community Services: Voluntary, drop-in service open to any adult in need of emergency psychiatric care. The Clinic is designed to stabilize low-income residents in a mental health crisis and refer that person to an appropriate source for follow-up treatment.

Crisis clinic: Drop-In 245 11th Street
Mon-Fri (8am-2pm)
or call 415-355-0311

Dore Urgent Care: 24hr drop-in clinic that is a safe place staffed by nurses where you can spend the night if the clinic has capacity, and potentially be linked with longer term, voluntary care.

Good idea to call ahead if possible, and try to bring any medications you need for the next 2 weeks if hoping to be connected to ongoing, residential treatment.
415-553-3100
M-F 24 hrs 52 Dore St