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San Francisco Examiner, by Dr. Dawn Harbatkin, June 20, 2017 Read on the San Francisco Examiner website Thousands of Californians see their gender misrepresented on state-issued identification cards every day. A bill overwhelmingly passed by the state Senate can start righting this wrong. If passed by the Assembly, Senate Bill 179, the Gender Recognition Act, […]

San Francisco Chronicle, by Kevin Fagan, June 17, 2017 Read on the San Francisco Chronicle website Spackled into last week’s 80-page report detailing San Francisco’s latest homeless count were two big revelations: While the number of homeless youths plummeted 40 percent, the population of severely troubled homeless adults shot up 31 percent. What the statistics show,

SFGATE, by Peter Hockaday, June 11, 2017 Read on the SFGATE website This year’s Haight Ashbury Street Fair had an extra dose of hippie. The 40th anniversary of the street fair was also celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco.  Among the usual street-fair staples of barbecue, t-shirt vendors and drumming,

Mercury News, By DARRYL CERENO | Mosaic, June 9, 2017  Read on the Mercury News website John recently turned 20, marking his third year of homelessness. He was originally from Oregon, but traveled south with a couple of friends. He hasn’t seen his family in years. John is a recovering heroin and amphetamine abuser who started using

New York Times, by Mike McPhate, June 7, 2017 Read on the NYTimes website … And Finally … It was 1967, the year of the Summer of Love, and hippies were streaming into San Francisco. Substance abuse was a growing problem, and some felt the medical establishment was failing to confront it. That prompted Dr.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 15, 2017      MEDIA CONTACTIvan Becerra | 415.392.1000  SAN FRANCISCO —  HealthRIGHT 360, one of California’s largest community health care providers, and Women’s Community Clinic, a nonprofit provider of health services for low-income women and girls in the Bay Area, today announced plans to merge. The merger will bring together two of San

By Liz Highleyman, The Bay Area Reporter, May 4, 2017 Read on The Bay Area Reporter’s website A bill that would allow supervised drug consumption facilities in California took another step forward, as the Assembly Public Safety Committee voted 4-3 on April 25 to advance the legislation. Supervised consumption facilities allow people to inject drugs

Name: Vitka EisenAge: 57City: BerkeleyPosition: CEO, HealthRIGHT 360 J.: You have been involved for more than three decades with San Francisco’s Walden House, which serves people with substance abuse disorders. It merged with Haight Ashbury Free Clinics in 2011 to form HealthRIGHT 360. How did you end up leading the organization? Vitka Eisen: I initially came to

By Bill Bradley, Next City, May 3, 2017 Read on Next City’s website This article is the second in a series of profiles of impact development projects produced in partnership with guest editor Gregory Heller. Impact development is a term that describes real estate projects that serve a social purpose. This series explores how impact development projects are reshaping our

By Joshua Sabatini, San Francisco Examiner, April 9, 2017  Read on the San Francisco Examiner’s website Sirens echo throughout Civic Center Plaza around 11 a.m. Friday. A young man has collapsed on the pavement after stepping out of a Jeep Cherokee parked in front of the Main Public Library, his face a gruesome shade of