Our mission is to optimize the health of the Tenderloin’s homeless, poor and most vulnerable residents.
We serve those living with and at the greatest risk of acquiring HIV/AIDS, who have difficulty obtaining services elsewhere, especially due to substance use, mental illness, sexual orientation, gender identity, race and ethnicity, and/or other social barriers.
TENDERLOIN HEALTH: A History of Service
Tenderloin Health is a San Francisco based non-profit working to empower the community we serve to lessen the incidence of HIV infection, disease progression and homelessness among the residents of the Tenderloin neighborhood using harm reduction philosophy and practice. We have been in existence since 1990, but configured into our current form in July 2006 through the merger of two long-term Tenderloin-based providers of HIV/AIDS, housing and support services: Continuum HIV Day Services & the Tenderloin AIDS Resource Center (TARC). Initially Continuum and TARC began in 1990. TARC began by offering a health promotion program that trained Tenderloin residents to teach their peers skills on how to reduce their risk of acquiring HIV as well as options to reduce the impact of drug related harm. Continuum established the first AIDS specific Adult Day health Center in the State of California. Both agencies grew over the years to sponsor a continuum of case management, behavioral health, medical and housing programs to ensure that homeless residents and those living with HIV/AIDS accessed care in the Tenderloin.
Now six days a week, Tenderloin Health has expanded to offer: emergency, transitional, permanent and HIV specialty housing; on-site primary, urgent and HIV specialty medical care; syringe exchange; mental health and substance use assessment and treatment; psychosocial and self-help support; critical life sustaining services, such as nutritional supplementation and peer support; job training and access to basic services including restrooms, phones and a clothing bank, all in partnership with and as a direct result of input from many of the Tenderloin's most vulnerable residents.
Data regarding the convergence of social issues in the Tenderloin are highlighted here.
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Tenderloin Health, Inc.
PO Box 423930
San Francisco CA 94142
415/437-2900
Tenderloin Health is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation. Your contributions and donations are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law.
