PRC

PRC's mission is to help people affected by HIV/AIDS, substance use, or mental health issues better realize opportunities by providing integrated legal, social, and health services that address the broad range of social risk factors that impact wellness and limit potential. We want to lift people out of poverty and addiction, illness and stigma, homelessness and decline, by breaking down the barriers to good health. As health is about more than just physical wellness our goal is to improve clients' access to critical services across multiple health issues, and help more people stabilize their health and lives, secure housing, access healthcare and build economic stability.

PRC achieves this through critical program work.

Benefits Counseling Program
Each year 1,500 low-income and HIV+ individuals gain direct legal representation, advocacy, and government benefits consultation resulting in healthcare enrollments and $5,000,000 in client income awards.

Emergency Financial Assistance
Emergency financial aid is a lifeline for 1,700 low-income HIV+ individuals each year, who access $900,000 to prevent eviction and meet critical financial needs annually.

Employment Services
Employment Services reinvigorates the livelihoods, independence, and self-esteem of 500 people with chronic illnesses each year. Strategies include coaching them back into the workforce, building earning capacity, college placement, and securing short- and long-term living wage placements. As a result, clients earn more than $1,000,000 annually.

Residential Treatment to Supportive Housing

Grove Street House offers up to a 30-day crisis stabilization stay to 80 people annually who are exiting institutional settings and struggling to overcome a combination of psychiatric and addiction issues.

Treatment Programs in 6 separate locations provide 450 individuals each year the support to overcome substance use, mental illness, and co-occurring disorders in service-rich, homelike environments. Each site is specialized and offers a 90-day stay. Ferguson Place was the first of its kind to serve adults struggling with HIV/AIDS, psychiatric, and addiction issues. Also at Jo Ruffin Place, Baker Street House, Robertson Place, and San Jose Place, residents develop support systems, practice self-regulation, and build independent living skills. At exit, more than three-quarters of residents transition successfully into stable, more permanent housing.

Transitional Supportive Housing enables 200 people each year, living in 20+ PRC-managed apartments citywide, to move beyond their psychiatric or substance abuse histories and take their next steps into healthy, independent living. Connecting residents to vocational, educational, social service, and recreational resources, case managers help residents grow and thrive for up to 18 months in small,
communal environments.

Odyssey House is unique in San Francisco, giving 10 African American adults with extensive histories of institutionalization, homelessness, mental illness, and substance abuse a permanent, supportive home. The program maximizes independence and stability through 24-hour staffing, strong community linkages, and 3,650 days of care.

By integrating HIV/AIDS, mental health, and substance use services under one roof, PRC has the expertise and ability to make sustainable improvements to the wellness of San Franciscans living with HIV/AIDS, mental health and substance use issues. Already we are moving the needle, uplifting lives across more than 30 sites in San Francisco. Each year 5,000 people are building income, getting healthy, and staying housed.

With a combined 115-year history of service, the new PRC is deeply rooted in the San Francisco community, fighting for social and economic justice for low-income and disabled populations. We are committed to making a direct and lasting impact on the lives of our clients, as well as the city we love and call home.

PRC's core services will reach 5,000 individuals in 2023. Clients will achieve the following outcomes:

Emergency Financial Assistance
1,600 unduplicated individuals receive emergency financial assistance
75% of clients receiving eviction prevention or housing stabilization services remain housed at 90 days

Benefits Counseling
1,500 unduplicated individuals receive benefits counseling
500 providers and consumers will attend benefits counseling education workshops
200 notices of award will be received from SSI/SSDI
$3.4 million in retroactive payments will be secured from SSI/SSDI

Employment Services
500 unduplicated individuals receive employment services
95% of clients who complete intake and assessment will develop an Individual Service Plan based upon self-identified goals, including an action plan with timelines
65% of clients who develop an Individual Service Plan will enroll in a single or multi-session training curriculum designed to increase their capacity to become employed
60% of clients seeking employment will secure employment and income

Residential Treatment
2017 launch of Hummingbird Place at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital in collaboration with the City & County of San Francisco, a 15-bed Homeless Navigation Center uniquely providing psychiatric respite care and designed to help those individuals who are the most frequent users of crisis and inpatient services see a path forward and off the streets.

What's next…
Among our many strategic priorities going forward, PRC has established our flagship PRC Service Center that brings all of the organization's non-clinical services, under one roof; to build philanthropic engagement to enhance our services and take advantage of PRC's depth and breadth of services to impact wellness and elevate San Francisco; and to move ahead with field-building innovations like PRC's Integrated Health Analysis, a tool that will utilize predictive analytics to match client's health vulnerabilities with priority service goals, helping PRC to partner with clients to prevent negative health outcomes in the future at the same time as we stabilize health and champion wellness now.