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Program Design & Management

Health Care for the Homeless (HCH)

SFCCC administers one of the largest federal Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) programs in the country. HCH addresses the multiple, acute and chronic health needs of San Francisco's homeless population through the integrated delivery of health care, housing assistance, and social services.

HCH is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

With Street Outreach Services (SOS) – the mobile outreach component of the HCH program – SFCCC takes its mission of increasing access to care, quite literally, to the streets. Traveling in a medical van to sites throughout San Francisco, the SOS team of providers create "clinics without walls" in soup kitchens, on city streets, in parks, and if the need arises – and it has – under freeway overpasses. In other words, anywhere homeless San Franciscans are found, the SOS team has found itself, bringing with them critically needed preventive and urgent health care services since 1988.

SOS is funded in part by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, with the balance of support coming from private sources.

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