Program areas at CATS
Medical Respite and Sobering Center is a partnership between the Organization and the San Francisco Department of Public Health (DPH). Together we provide respite beds and sobering facilities, along with temporary housing and specialized support services, for medically frail people impacted by homelessness.This facility reduces the number of emergency room visits its patients make, along with their contact with police and EMS personnel, thus saving substantial city costs, and helps connect its patients with longer term support services as they heal. Beds at Medical Respite and Sobering are targeted to discount the services in relation to the average cost in a hospital setting.
Coronado Housing:Those experiencing chronic homelessness often present a complex and difficult combination of issues that defy ordinary measures - and so they need facilities that are not only able to go the extra mile, but know every step of the way. The Coronado Hotel is an SRO specializing in patients whose traumas, symptoms, and circumstances make conventional approaches to providing shelter and services a poor fit.Residents staying at the Coronado are given intensive support services including assessment, mental health support, crisis intervention, substance use disorder referrals, medical counseling, conflict resolution, mediation, benefits counseling, advocacy, employment services, and access to food pantry programs.
In collaboration with San Francisco Homeless Supportive Housing (HSH), we run three Shelter in Place Hotels housing those most vulnerable to COVID_19. These sites offer clients not only a room of their own but comprehensive case management including trauma informed mental health treatment. Each guest is evaluated for available housing and are given priority access to permanent housing so they will not return to shelters or living outside.
A Woman's Place Drop-in Center offers women and trans women with children 24-hour, low-threshold, drop-in services targeted to complex needs. This includes easy access to primary care, case management, residential substance abuse, and HIV transitional housing and care.
Eddy Street Apartments:The thing residents first notice about Eddy Street Apartments, a facility focused on long- term housing, is its emphasis on building community. It hosts regular events and dinners designed to connect residents to one another, and to community life around them. This sense of connection, more than any other single factor, is often what residents need to have long-term stability.Alongside housing, residents receive targeted and personalized services designed around their specific needs, most often focused on recovery from chronic addictions, individual and group counseling, and case management services. These services help those turned away by other systems of care find their lives, and dignity, again.