Over the next four years, San Francisco will receive $32 million from the state of California to help the city's homeless with mental illness and substance use disorders, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
According to a press release, the city's Department of Public Health has been awarded the Behavioral Health Bridge Housing grant, which will go toward emergency stabilization units, shelter beds, transitional housing, and assisted living beds for people with mental illness and substance use disorders.
"When people with substance use or mental health issues have housing or shelter, they are in a far better position to improve their health and stability," the city's director of public health says.
"The combination of stable living situations and behavioral health treatment leads to better health outcomes."
In San Francisco, 5,000 people experiencing homelessness are receiving behavioral health care from DPH each year.
Another 15,000 people receive services each year in SFDPH specialized behavioral health programs.
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