MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO
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Mission Statement
The mission of the Mental Health Association of San Francisco is to cultivate peer leadership, build community, and advance social justice in mental health. IMPACT All mental health peer support services are free. Donor support has helped MHASF: - Serve of 15,000 people annually through the California Peer Run Warm Line - Answered over 115,000 calls and chats - Served nearly 700 individuals with peer-to-peer support case management - Provide over 130 community trainings and presentations - Helped reduce hospitalization from mental health issues by 90% within 30-days and 65% decrease in within 6-months
About This Cause
The Mental Health Association of San Francisco (MHASF) is a peer-run organization offering peer support, advocacy, and training in mental health. For over 75 years, MHASF has reflected the forward-thinking attitude for which San Francisco is known. We continue to fight stigma and discrimination in mental health across diverse communities and have, in turn, influenced the changing of policy, perception, and people. As a peer-run organization, we know healing occurs only when those affected by issues are centered in the solutions. Mental health care is changing rapidly, and a more integrated, holistic approach is the expectation for the future. Peer workers are at the center of the next evolution of the mental health system, and MHASF intends to continue to be at the forefront of the peer recovery movement. WARM LINE SERVICES California Peer Run Warm Line – The CA Peer Run Warm Line, which began operation in 2014—is a 24/7, non-emergency resource for anyone in California seeking mental and emotional support. We provide non-judgmental and nondiscriminatory support via phone and web chat to Californians in need. Callers share their challenges with interpersonal relationships, anxiety, pain, depression, finances, alcohol/drug use, and more. Services are available via phone at 855-845-7415 or chat at www.mentalhealthsf.org/peer-run-warmline/. The CalHOPE Warm Line: CalHOPE is a non-emergency resource for anyone in California seeking emotional support for navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-in-place orders. We have offered this service since May of 2020. The CalHOPE line is 833-317-HOPE (4673). Learn more about CalHOPE and its other services at https://www.calhope.org/. PEER SUPPORT SERVICES Peer Counseling Our Peer Counseling programs match individuals with trained peer counselors who have lived experience in order to support and help participants meet their mental health and recovery goals. Our peer counselors help participants define their overall values and goals, before outlining personalized self-care and mindfulness techniques. It is important for our team to help participants connect with the peer community and decrease isolation. If needed, Wellness and Recovery Action Plans (WRAP®) are developed with our participants, in addition to resource and referral linkage so they can maintain healthy lives. Support Groups Our Support Groups offer education and peer support on a variety of topics that enlighten, inform, and motivate participants to create meaningful change in their lives. Topics include depression, anxiety, autism, and hoarding & cluttering, as well as support groups for our BIPOC and LGBTQ+ community members. Clinically Peer Support The Clinical Integration program features peer providers working with licensed mental health clinicians, service professionals, and mental health care teams to provide ongoing—short-term (60-day)—case management and support to clients experiencing pre-, post-, and acute crises. Our peers are integrated within the continuum of support to connect individuals with stabilizing services. Peer Providers also conduct outreach and engagement to individuals living with mental health challenges who may not currently be seeking services but could benefit from them. Additionally, Peer Providers provide mental health crisis response in the community in partnership with organizations and agencies in San Francisco County, Marin County, and Sacramento County. PEER WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROPEL PROPEL is a no-cost Bay Area Peer Professional Network providing support, training, and placement for individuals with mental health lived experience. As consumers or family members, PROPEL participants are invited to volunteer or work as peer personnel within the Public Mental Health System (PMHS). PROPEL is a workforce development program that offers job-specific training, career counseling, employment linkages, and retention support to its members. PROPEL also assists employers in the California PMHS with recruiting and retaining consumer and family member staff through workforce integration. Individuals qualify for PROPEL Membership if they live in the counties of San Francisco, Marin, Alameda, and San Mateo while also living with mental health challenges personally or through a loved one. PROPEL has received ongoing funding through the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) since 2014. ADVOCACY SOLVE - Sharing Our Lives, Voices, and Experiences is a mental health stigma-elimination speakers bureau established in 2009 to address three kinds of stigma: public, structural, & self-stigma. SOLVE seeks to replace misconceptions and harmful beliefs about mental health challenges with true stories of lived experience by way of free community presentations throughout the City and County of San Francisco. SOLVE also partners with psychiatric units at hospitals—such as San Francisco General Hospital—in sharing messages of hope, resiliency, and recovery with unit patients through the Do Send a Card (DSAC) program. Do Send a Card was established in 2012 inspired by Ellyn Saks, a mental health activist, who came to MHASF with her experiences of being isolated while hospitalized, wishing someone would have sent her flowers or checked in on her as if she were in the hospital for physical ailments. The DSAC program receives cards of hope from mental health consumers, family members, and allies all over the United States with plans for continued expansion. TAY Action Team (TAT) The Transition Age Youth Action Team’s (TAT) goal is to improve and expand California and San Francisco’s youth and young adults’ support for ongoing and growing behavioral and social needs. TAT is part of a statewide initiative through our partner and State affiliate organization, Mental Health America of California’s (MHAC) California Youth Empowerment Network (CAYEN). TAT partners with other Youth Advisory boards as well as community organizations to provide input, shape policies, and address systemwide issues in the effort to empower youth self-advocacy. ARISE Advocates Rise (ARISE) is an advocacy program focused on developing and sustaining mental health peer leadership to create policy change at the local, state, and national level. ARISE meets twice a month virtually to convene mental health advocates around a variety of topics, including: housing crises, conservatorship, and mental health crisis response. Connecting mental health advocates throughout the nation, ARISE holds space for peers to discuss actionable strategies to progress mental health care within social systems. MENTAL HEALTH & TECHNOLOGY The Technology-Assisted Mental Health Solutions (TAMHS) project is part of a statewide initiative to increase technology in mental health spaces through a collaborative statewide initiative called Help@Hand. The TAMHS project provides San Francisco residents access to digital mental health support at no cost. With the onset of COVID-19, the ever-growing digital divide separated people from communities and systems of care at a crucial moment of need. TAMHS aims to equip San Francisco residents, especially individuals from the TAY (Transitional Age Youth) and Transgender community, an accessible resource to support their mental wellness and overall wellbeing. Based on ongoing community stakeholder feedback, additional programs such as digital literacy education training, technology procurement, and mindfulness through meditation support have been utilized and fostered in order to decrease the digital divide and social isolation while increasing access to digital therapeutics and support. TRAINING & EDUCATION Training Institute MHASF's Training Institute provides evidence-based training designed to enhance skills and knowledge for professional development within a cooperative learning environment. Delivering engaging, interactive training and workshops, the Training Institute discusses an array of mental health topics for people of any profession, regardless of familiarity. Topics include “Mental Health 101”, “Self-Care and Community Care”, “Language Matters”, and many more. Redefining Crazy The Redefining Crazy Conference and Training Series is an interdisciplinary series examining and discussing the inadequacies of our current system of mental health care in order to explore solutions. Topics include using technology to improve care, hoarding and cluttering, systemic racism, and social injustice as causes for inequitable access to care. With monthly events and two conferences annually, Redefining Crazy reaches a wide audience with strategies and research intended to improve mental health on a personal level. Real Talk Born from the heightened call for racial justice following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, Real Talk is a bi-weekly discussion series highlighting topics pertaining to the Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Community, systemic racism, mental health, and racial injustice. Topics range from disability justice to artistic inspirations for mental health recovery.