The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) will host an in-person budget listening session on Monday, March 23rd from 2pm to 3pm.
The San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) will host an in-person budget listening session on Monday, March 23rd from 2pm-3pm at 25 Van Ness Ave, Conference Room 610. This session is part of a series of budget planning meetings with our community partners during the FY 26-27 budget season.
The meeting will be a dialogue and feedback session on prioritizing and strengthening outcomes‑focused contracts and services, aligned with the Mayor’s budget guidance to DPH. There will be specific focus on CBO services related to prioritizing connections to treatment and guidance on harm reduction services.
Please review and consider the following prompts when preparing feedback to ensure a smooth and efficient meeting:
How do your organizations support clients with serious mental illness and/or substance use disorder in moving through the stages of change towards recovery?
How should we design our services to meet people where they are and move them into treatment, in ways that balance individual needs with community impacts?
How can we better measure the longitudinal relationship building required to move people along the stages of change? And how do we also meet the need of providing more immediate measurable outcomes?
Please note, each speaker will be limited to 2 minutes for their comments, so that everyone will have a chance to speak. If you have suggestions you’d like to share in advance, please submit them to DPHBudgetideas@sfdph.org.