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ABUSE
- 24-Hour Crisis Line: 877-751-0880
- Business Line: 415-751-7110
- Address: 3543 18th Street # 19, San Francisco, CA 94110
- Additional Languages: Arabic, Cantonese, Farsi, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Javanese, Korean, Laotian, Mandarin, Mongolian, Mien, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Thai & Vietnamese
- Shelter Program
- Case Management
- Lesbian and Bisexual & Transgender Support
- Priority to women & children who have limited resources & speak little or no English.
Asian Women's Shelter
- Adult 24-Hour Crisis Line: 877-503-1850
- Teen 24-Hour Crisis Line: 877-923-0700
- Address: 1269 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Additional languages: Spanish; other languages by phone interpreter
- Women 18+ call for confidentially-located shelters
- Counseling, house meetings, 3 meals daily, and chores; stay up to 8 weeks
- Support groups, counseling, and legal aid
La Casa de las Madres Shelter
- 24-Hour Crisis Hotline: 800-799-SAFE (7233)
- Additional languages: 170 languages available
- All calls are confidential and anonymous
- Spanish-speaking site
National Domestic Violence Hotline
- 24-Hour Crisis Hotline: 415-647-7273
- Business Line: 415-861-2024
- Address: 3543 18th Street, #7, San Francisco, CA 94110
- Email: info@sfwar.org
- Rape crisis counselors are available 24 hours/day to offer
- support, information and resources for survivors of rape and sexual assault, friends, family members and others
- Counselors are also trained in areas such as sexual harassment, incest, child sexual assault, same-sex sexual assault, domestic violence, ritual abuse, suicide prevention, male survivors and stalking
San Francisco Women Against Rape
- 24-Hour Crisis Hotline: 877-384-3578
- Address: 26 Boardman Pl, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Additional languages: Spanish
- 24-hour support line offers support via peer counseling, safety planning, and referrals for needed resources.
- Support also for family and friends of survivors
San Francisco Women Against Rape
- 24-Hour Crisis Hotline: (866) 742-5667 (SHALOM-7) toll-free within the Bay Area
- Other Crisis Hotline: (510) 845-SAFE (7233)
- Business Line: (510) 845-8874
- Hours: Monday-Thursday 9am-4pm, Friday 9am-12pm
- Additional Languages: English, Russian
- Email: info@shalom-bayit.org
- Center for domestic violence prevention and response within the Jewish community
- Promote peaceful homes and families, teach skills for healthy relationships, and work to build a safe, vibrant
- Jewish community that is free from violence and abuse
- Counseling & direct support to battered women & children
Shalom Bayit
- Business Line: 415-777-5500
- Address: 427 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Email: info@cuav.org
- Additional languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese
- Domestic Violence Case Management provided to women and children. Services include case management, counseling, advocacy, resources, and referrals
- Free to low-cost professional counseling services for low-income adults, adolescents and children
- Spousal, family and other relationship problems, the impact of domestic violence, emotional issues, acculturation challenges
- Services for the LGBTQ Community
Riley Center St. Vincent de Paul Brennan House
- Business Line: 415- 617-0061
- Address: 10 Nottingham Pl, San Francisco, CA 94133
- Additional Languages: Cambodian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Lao, Mandarin, Tagalog, Spanish, Thai, Vietnamese
- Support services for Asian families to prevent child abuse & domestic violence
- Parenting & health education
- Support groups, kinship support, referrals, home visits, case management
- Assessment, counseling, individual & group therapy
- Parental stress hotline
- Employment program
APA Family Support Services
- Business Line: 415-449-1243, Dr. Yuliana Gelb is the Director of the Dream Program
- Assisting women and children who have fled their homes due to domestic violence
- Dream House, a transitional housing program
- All faiths and backgrounds—find a safe living community and benefit from services that allow them to move forward with their lives with dignity, honor, and strength
- Case management, referrals to: medical, emotional, vocational, financial, educational, legal
- Develop plan to re-establish safe, successful, and self-sufficient lives in their communities
Jewish Family & Children’s Services
- Business Line: 415-781-0401
- Address: 920 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94108
- Additional languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese
- Domestic Violence Case Management provided to women and children. Services include case management, counseling, advocacy, resources, and referrals
- Free to low-cost professional counseling services for low-income adults, adolescents and children
- Spousal, family and other relationship problems, the impact of domestic violence, emotional issues, acculturation challenges
Cameron House Social Services
- Business Line: 415-777-5500
- Address: 427 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Email: info@cuav.org
- Additional languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese
- Domestic Violence Case Management is provided to women and children. Services include case management, counseling, advocacy, resources, and referrals
- Free or low-cost professional counseling services for low-income adults, adolescents, and children
- Spousal, family, and other relationship problems, the impact of domestic violence, emotional issues, and acculturation challenges
- Spousal, family, and other relationship problems.
Community United Against Violence
- Business Line: 415-437-3000
- Address: 2727 Mariposa St. #100, San Francisco, CA 94110
- Website to rape treatment center: https://divisionoftraumarecoveryservices.org/rtc-casarc/
- For adult survivors of trauma, violence, and loss
- Domestic violence, survivors of physical assault, and family members of homicide victims
- Accepts Medi-Cal
SFGH/UCSF Trauma Recovery & Rape Treatment Center
- Business Line: (415) 674-6000, ask for the Women's Center or Saundra Haggerty
- Address: 330 Ellis Street (Main Building) San Francisco, CA 94102
- Email: info@glide.com
- Women on the Move Drop-In Support Groups
- Providing survivors of domestic violence with education, prevention, and intervention while healing, and empowering
- In our daily circles, we encourage women to reduce the harm of risky behaviors by taking incremental steps toward healthier life decisions and relationships
- After each session, the women are invited to a special breakfast together from 10:30 - 11am, prepared and served by GLIDE's Daily Free Meals Program
GLIDE Memorial Church
- Business Line: 1-888-864-8335
- Additional Languages: Spanish, Chinese (website), Vietnamese, Tagalog
- Project SURVIVE helpline provides free and confidential legal advice to survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. It helps survivors keep their jobs, take time off, and obtain accommodations while seeking safety or medical or legal help.
Project SURVIVE
- The plans are low-literacy, gender-neutral safety plans created for use with any person who is being victimized or threatened by another person.
- SF resource #’s included
LEAP: Looke to End Abuse Permanently
- Business Line: 415-255-0165
- Coordinating Attorney: Emberly C. Cross
- Emberly C. Cross Business Line: 415-864-1790
- Fax: 415-241-9491
- Email: emberly@roclinic.org
- Address: 3543 18th Street, Box #5 San Francisco, CA 94110
- Additional Language: Spanish + Interpreters for all other languages
- Restraining order made by the Family Court. It is made to stop physical violence, sexual violence, or stalking
Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic
- Email: victimservices@sfgov.org; Provide the following: Victim full legal name/DOB, Victim preferred contact Info, Nature of the crime, Police Report # (optional)
- Help obtaining a restraining order
- Provide information about child support options
- Providing counseling and support
- Helping with claims for Victim Compensation
- Providing information about the Criminal Justice system
- Advising clients of case status
- Helping with transportation
- Providing clients with a court waiting area and escort to court
- Assisting with property return
- Helping write an impact statement
- Seeking restitution from the offender
District Attorney (DA) Dedicated Domestic Violence
- National Network to End Domestic Violence
- Staying Safe
- Preparing for Court
- Where to Find Help
- Legal Statutes
- Know the Laws
- Learn About Abuse
- Helping Others
WomensLaw.org
- Business Line: 628-652-4100
- Fax: 628-652-4001
- Address: 350 Rhode Island Street, 400N San Francisco, CA 94103
- Email: victimservices@sfgov.org
- Additional Languages: Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, and Cantonese-speaking advocates are available
- Information on your rights as a crime victim
- Guidance on dealing with the court system
- Contact information for local resources and counseling referrals
- Assistance in filling out applications for the California Victim
- Compensation Program (CalVCP) to reimburse you for out-of-pocket expenses related to your victimization
District Attorney (DA) Victim Services
Addiction
- Website
- 24-Hour Hotline: (415) 674-1821
- Address: 1821 Sacramento St, San Francisco, CA 94109
- A program for alcoholics to help each other recover from the disease of alcoholism.
AA - Alcoholics Anonymous
- Business Line For Intake: 415-541-9404
- Business Line: (415) 776-1001
- Email: Jmengue@aars.org
- Address: 2020 Hayes Street, Suite 206, San Francisco, CA 94117
- HOURS: Monday – Friday, 9:00am - 5:00pm
- NOTES: Intake Drop-In Hours: Monday -Friday, 1:00pm - 3:00 pm.
- COPPASA is the adult outreach, prevention, and intake team for AARS’ programs in San Francisco, including Project ADAPT and Lee Woodward Counseling Center.
- COPPASA provides prevention, health education, and referrals to appropriate services, primarily for individuals with substance use and co-occurring mental health issues.
COPPASA
- Business Line: (415) 863-3883
- Address: (Inside UN Plaza) 1111 Market St 1st Floor, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Comprehensive substance abuse treatment, specializing in outpatient methadone maintenance and detoxification (detoxification programs range in length from 21 – 180 days).
- Offer non-methadone outpatient substance abuse treatment. Low cost primary medical care for substance abusers and non-substance abusers.
- Walk-ins welcome!
BAART Programs
- Business Line: 415-822-8200
- Fax: 415-822-6822
- Address: 1625 Carroll Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94124
- Outpatient methadone maintenance and 21-day detoxification services outpatient alcohol program providing individual, group, and family counseling. Acupuncture and herbal treatment.
Bayview/ Hunter's Point Methadone Program
- Business Line: (415) 957-9800
- Address: 600 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94107
- Delancey Street is a 2-year, highly structured residential educational community for substance abusers and sex workers.
Delancey Street Foundation
- Business Line: (415) 567-8370
- Address: 100 Masonic Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118
- Residential drug and alcohol addiction recovery center and trauma treatment programs for women and their young children in San Francisco.
- Residential treatment (30, 60, 90 days) for women in San Francisco. Our programs offer residential drug treatment at two sites for women and their young children. The programs provide support in parenting, independent living skills, and positive communication skills.
Epiphany Center
- Business Line: (415) 865-0964
- Address: 56 Julian Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Provides 90-day residential substance abuse treatment and 90-day aftercare services to men and women with Native American values, cultural, and spiritual focus. Also provides a one-year residential substance abuse program for women with their children (ages 0 to 5).
Friendship House Association of American Indians, Inc.
- Business Line: (415) 746-1950
- Address: 558 Clayton St, San Francisco, CA 94117
- Provides outpatient substance abuse counseling, codependency groups, parent reunification, treatment, parenting classes, and one-on-one counseling with a harm reduction approach and a spiritual focus.
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- Business Line: (415) 970-0438
- Address: 1638 Kirkwood Ave, San Francisco, CA 94124
- Offer a variety of services to help our clients overcome addiction and start fresh.
- They have programs for alcohol and drug rehab, as well as women’s rehab. We also offer inpatient and outpatient services, as well as aftercare support.
- Transitional Housing
Jelani the Family Program
- Business Line: (415) 558-9125
- Address: 724 Bryant St, San Francisco, CA 94110
- Clean-and-sober living for men and women in recovery, which provides a stable environment allowing residents an opportunity to prepare financially, educationally, and vocationally to reintegrate back into the community.
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- Business Line: (415) 762-3705 or (415) 967-7058
- Address: 890 Hayes St, San Francisco, CA 94117 or 815 Buena Vista Ave W, San Francisco, CA 94117
- Offers integrated treatment for clients with substance abuse and other mental health issues. Clients entering Walden House residential programs undergo screenings and assessments to determine their need for mental health services during their residential stay. Depending upon individual treatment plans, clients may take part in individual therapy, group therapy, medication services, case management, skills training and crisis services.
- The African American Healing Center is working with clients to prevent and reduce violence in our communities. Services are designed to meet the needs of people with all backgrounds, while proactively serving communities of color with programs that honor African American history and that are sensitive to the cultural context of each client.
Walden House
- Business Line: (415) 503-3000
- Address: 1275 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Non-medical residential treatment and transitional housing for single parents in recovery with children ages 0 to 10-1/2. 6-month program. Sobriety required. Also provides social model detox.
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- Business Line: (415) 592-2831 between 8 am and 1 pm, and be prepared to answer a short series of questions.
- Address: 150 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco, CA 94102
- Four to six months of residential social model recovery programs
- The free, year-long, residential recovery program at Father Alfred Center (FAC) empowers men who have no income or resources with the tools to overcome addiction and the support to establish healthy and productive lives. The program at Father Alfred Center is abstinence-based and structured around work.
St. Anthony Foundation
- Please contact Tyrone Clifford (tclifford@sfaf.org; 415-699-2930) or Wayne Rafus (wrafus@sfaf.org; 415-487-3124) with any questions around PROP services, including how to get enrolled.
- Business Line: 415-487-3100
- Email: stonewall@sfaf.org
- Comprehensive outpatient harm reduction program integrating substance abuse, mental health and HIV services for gay and bisexual men dealing with methamphetamine use issues.
Stonewall Project
ACUPUNCTURISTS
- Business Line: (415) 585-1990
- Email: info@eastwestsf.com
- 4 locations in Glen Park, Bernal Heights, and Noe Valley, and Oakland
- Offers Acupuncture and massage combo and packages
- They can help with: Postpartum Fatigue/Exhaustion, Postpartum Depression (“Baby Blues”, Anxiety, Insomnia, Insufficient Lactation/Milk not Flowing, Mastitis, Abdominal Pain/Cramping, Persistent Lochial Discharge, Urinary Difficulty, Sweating, Constipation, Poor Digestion, Hemorrhoids, Postpartum Fever, Muscular aches/pains etc.
East-West Integrative Medicine Clinic
- Website
- Business Line: (415) 244-4412
- Address: 415 Spruce St, San Francisco, CA 94118
- Email: jennifer@mossacupuncture.com
- She has advanced training and specialized education in treating infertility and obstetrics with Traditional Chinese Medicine.
- She can help with: Acid Reflux, Anemia, Anxiety and Stress, Asthma, Shortness of Breath, Breech Presentation, Constipation, Cramping and Bleeding, Delayed Labor, Digestion Irregularities, Edema, Fatigue, Heartburn, Hematomas, Blood clots, Hemorrhoids, Hyperemesis Gravidarum, Insomnia, Migraines and Headaches, Morning Sickness, Nausea & Vomiting, Pain, Back pain, Placenta Previa, Pre-Birth Preparation, Pre-eclampsia, Prevention of Miscarriage, Post-term pregnancy, Sciatica, Varicose Veins etc.
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