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After successful 1st year, BART-dedicated SF Homeless Outreach Team expands to Mission

A partnership with the San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team that dedicated two workers full-time to downtown San Francisco BART stations had such success in its first year that it’s being expanded in 2019 to the Mission District.

The two workers, Jessie Jones and Robbie Fischer, spend their days walking the Civic Center, Powell Street, Montgomery Street and Embarcadero stations, making contact with homeless people and offering to connect them to services such as housing, mental health care or drug addiction treatment.

From November of 2017 to November of 2018, they made contact with more than 700 people. Of those, 537, or approximately 75%, were connected with one or more types of services – a very high percentage when dealing with a population of many chronically homeless, difficult cases. Even more notable – 164, or a little more than 25% of those cases, were considered “resolved” -- a term that means, essentially, they are no longer in a revolving-door situation and have been moved fully out of the BART system.

"This BART-dedicated HOT team is making a difference, day in and day out,” said Armando Sandoval, the BART Police Department’s crisis intervention coordinator and community outreach liaison. “The numbers are very encouraging.”

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Robert Riechel

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