SFCCC's SOS & Vet SOS Programs Update

San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium (SFCCC)'s Street Outreach Services (SOS) and Veterinary Outreach Services (Vet SOS) programs spent the first 6 weeks of the COVID19 pandemic reaching out by phone or email to their clients- all people experiencing homelessness- while gathering PPE and writing safety protocols to get back on the streets as quickly as possible. 

 

SOS is now providing field services 4 days a week, in close collaboration with San Francisco’s Department of Public Health, as a roving team and at a shelter-in-place hotel site. Vet SOS is now providing veterinary telehealth visits, weekly pick up days for medication, pet food, and supplies, and pop-up veterinary clincs every other week.  

 

Since the federal McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987, SFCCC has been proud to offer programs ensuring that people experiencing homelessness have access to primary care and other health care and support services through its citywide system of care. 

 

Photos: 

  • SOS Program Manager, Carly Matsukuma, and volunteer MD, Dan Wlodarczyk, 5/19/20. 

  • Vet SOS Program Coordinator, Boyd Williamson, and Outreach Worker, Ilse Gavino Vargas, 5/18/20. 

  • Volunteer DVM, Ilana Strubel, examines and provides truly "street-level" care to a client's companion pup, 5/18/20.

Jim Jarvenpaa