Impact Report 2022-2023
2022–23 has been another rock-solid year for SFCHC. As the world navigates its way back from the worst of COVID-19, our agency’s persistent community presence from the onset of the pandemic has reaped formidable results. In April of this year, we capped a decades-long relationship with Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi by honoring her at the Show of Hope Gala with our Health Justice Champion Award. She spoke of SFCHC as a “magnificent model for California and the country,” and I could not have been any prouder of our team and what we are accomplishing.
Another highlight for SFCHC was the March 2023 opening of our new site for Trans Thrive, a stand-alone 8,000 square foot facility housing the entirety of our Trans programs and services. This first of its kind Trans community center in our city, led by our team of trans professionals, is a breathtaking culmination of years of work. SFCHC is now inclusive of seven sites, six of them in San Francisco and one in Chicago, where we administer our local, statewide, and National Capacity Building Assistance. Our Community Living Room is bursting at the seams with activity and services. An average of 100 homeless residents, Community Ambassadors and Community Health Workers fill the space every day, providing our Tenderloin community with critical health and resource information, hygiene and harm reduction supplies, and peer support. Additionally, we operate in sites related to our partnerships with Ward 86’s Black Health Center of Excellence at SF Zuckerberg General Hospital and Alliance Health Project’s API Health Access Point at UCSF. You can read more about these projects in our report.
Our rapidly expanding physical footprint reflects our increasing community impact and the success of our culturally informed model of care. I can’t tell you how much the support of our stakeholders means to us. I am excited for you to read our report and I invite you to visit us at any time. I would love to show you around so that you can see firsthand the impact we are having here in the Tenderloin and beyond.