{"id":29758,"date":"2023-11-09T12:13:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T20:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=29758"},"modified":"2023-11-09T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T20:13:08","slug":"city-audit-finds-poor-coordination-lack-of-oversight-among-sf-homeless-outreach-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/11\/09\/city-audit-finds-poor-coordination-lack-of-oversight-among-sf-homeless-outreach-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"City Audit Finds Poor Coordination, Lack of Oversight Among SF Homeless Outreach Teams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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8 NOVEMBER 2023\/SF NEWS<\/a>\/JOE KUKURA<\/a> (sfist.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco has not one but 11 homeless outreach teams to provide services for people living on the streets, and a new city audit finds they don\u2019t communicate with one another and often have poor oversight of their contracts and responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may have heard of San Francisco having a \u201chomeless outreach team,\u201d sometimes referred to by their acronym of a \u201cHOT team,\u201d with their recognizable branded black jackets<\/a> or green shirts<\/a>.  But it turns out San Francisco actually has 11 homeless outreach teams, with names like Post Overdose Engagement Team (POET) or Street Crisis Response Team (SCRT).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And according to a new 136-page audit<\/a> from the SF the Budget and Legislative Analyst, there is little coordination between the 11 teams, these teams use a range of incompatible data collection systems, and their contract oversight is lacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why, according to Mission Local, Supervisor Dean Preston is calling for hearings on homeless outreach team oversight<\/a> to address these flaws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preston did not sound angry with the teams\u2019 performances when he called for the hearings at Tuesday\u2019s SF Board of Supervisors meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere no doubt that these teams have saved countless lives, connected people to services they desperately needed, and help deescalate situations that could have otherwise become tragic,\u201d Preston said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am grateful to all of these workers and departments that are undertaking this difficult and essential work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s no sugarcoating it, the audit found some areas that will require serious improvement,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Department of Public Health failed to adequately monitor its contracts, and one street team operated without a contract for over a year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the SF Standard, that street team is the Harm Reduction Therapy Center<\/a>. They apparently do have a contract with the DPH now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DPH says it \u201cwas actively working\u201d with them to devise a new contract during the period when it was lapsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fairness, the city did rapidly expand these street teams at the start of the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the reach of the audit dates back to 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These calls for City Hall hearings do often result in legislation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hearing will probably be at some Board of Supervisors committee hearing, though it has not yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Related: <\/strong>SF’s Department of Homelessness May Finally Get an Oversight Commission [SFist]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image: Joe Kukura, SFist<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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