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The Brinton Psychiatric Homeless Project provides psychiatric care and mental health services for those homeless persons in San Francisco who suffer from mental illness and have limited or no access to such services.
The Brinton Psychiatric Homeless Project began in 2001 at the request of Mrs. Mary Jane Brinton, a philanthropist in San Francisco who was concerned with the growing homeless problem in San Francisco. Through a combination of grants and the ongoing support of Mrs. Brinton, over the last seven years the project has worked with over 600 individuals in San Francisco many of whom have never accessed mental health treatment at any point in their lives.
Since 2001 we have partnered with the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, Mission Neighborhood Resource Center, Caduceus Outreach, Martin De-Porres Drop-in Center. Tenderloin Health, The Harm Reduction Therapy Center, and The Glide Foundation. Our model is to identify partnering agencies working with chronically homeless individuals that do not have resources to offer mental health services as part of their program. The Psychiatric Foundation of Northern California then makes a donation of service provider time to our partnering agencies at no cost to our partners. We feel by placing a psychiatric treatment team where individuals are accessing services for health care, shelter, food, or social support we have a much better chance of engaging those individuals opposed to waiting for the client to access mental health treatment on their own.
In 2005 we received a grant from the California Endowment to fund a team of providers that could offer Spanish speaking mental health services in the Mission District of San Francisco. As a result of this grant we are now able to offer mental health services in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. This includes a Spanish Speaking Psychiatrist committed to working with homeless immigrants from Central and South America and a tri-lingual Marital and Family Therapist offering services in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
By working with non-profit health and social service providers whose record of service to the homeless, transient and impoverished communities is well established and trusted by members of those communities, acceptance of our services is enhanced. This approach also maximizes the use of existing resources while linking our service with equally necessary housing, food, welfare advocacy and other medical services.
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