In 1989, Citywide in collaboration with ZSFG-Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES) created a partnership to provide continuous mental health services to consumers whose history of violent behavior precluded treatment in community-based clinics. Services are based on the hospital grounds at PES. Comprehensive mental health services provided include: thorough referral screening and risk assessment; individual therapy; case management and service coordination; medication management; crisis intervention; and outreach when safe to do so. This innovation increased the safety of the community by providing clinical services to those who would otherwise be excluded from treatment.
Intakes: Marta Gilbert – Prior ICM authorization is required and referred clients must have a serious mental illness with a risk of violence requiring the PES setting for safety.
Discharges: Participants are served on the PES caseload until they can be safely seen in an outpatient setting. Typically, participants stepped down to another ICM clinic.
Eligibility Criteria
Citywide Psychiatric Emergency Services (PES):
ICM level of care authorization by the San Francisco Department of Public Health, Behavioral Health Services is required and referred clients must have a serious mental illness with a risk of violence requiring the PES setting for safety.