DATA STORY
Community Partnerships in Equity
Collaborations and programs with community members to improve health services.
Food Pharmacies/Food as Medicine
- Food pharmacy programming at 6 clinics in San Francisco
- Collaborative partners
- San Francisco Marin Food Bank
- Leah’s Pantry
- Eat SF
- Project Open Hand
- Target
- IDEO
- Venice Family Clinic
- HealthNet
- Healthy Food, Healthy Families in Alameda County
Learn more about the Food as Medicine Collaborative (1/2/19 update)
Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Advisory Council
See the 2021-2022 MHSA Annual Update
Learn more about the Mental Health Services Act
Patient & Family Advisory Council
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Patients participate in strategy and program planning
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Participants provide patient-centered perspectives
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Hypertension Equity Workgroup
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San Francisco Health Network Equity Subcommittee
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Patient-Centered COVID-19 Response
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Webinar Development and Participating in Presentations
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B/AA and Latinx COVID Vaccine Confidence Political Action Committee
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Perinatal Equity Initiative
Home visiting intervention in collaboration with the SisterWeb Doula Network.
Pride at Laguna Honda Hospital
Pride Prom and bingo with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence for Laguna Honda Hospital residents.

San Francisco African American Faith Based Coalition (SAAFBC)
Behavioral Health Services co-facilitates a monthly meeting with the San Francisco African American Faith-Based Coalition and the Human Rights Commission on COVID-related communications.
Principles for Community Relationships & Collaboration
- Implements community collaboration strategies that demonstrate power-sharing and shared decision-making
- Demonstrates an understanding of the benefit of maintaining cultural humility when interacting with individuals and populations.
- Collaborates with community partners and stakeholders along the spectrum of collaboration from informing to shared decision making
- Establishes modes of community incentivization beyond monetary compensation, through community partnerships and engagement.
- Establishes ways to financially compensate community members and organizations for their expertise
- Ability to establish long standing and enriching relationships that benefit all parties involved, with special attention to community members and their needs.
- Identifies influential CBOs in the areas relevant to the work