Tenderloin Center

The Tenderloin Center will close on December 4, 2022.  

The center, part of San Francisco’s Tenderloin Emergency Initiative, was planned as a temporary site to reduce overdose deaths and increase connections to services, as well as to collect data for future sites and services.

SF Public Health is supporting people seeking and receiving services by facilitating their transition to trusted providers in the neighborhood who offer similar services as the TLC.  

Referrals to services 

SF Public Health is stationing staff in UN Plaza in the area of the TLC (Dec. 5-11, 8 am to 8 pm) to provide information and wayfinding to alternative existing services, as well as provide naloxone and overdose reversal support.

People will be referred to other providers to seek services such as safe drop-in centers; meals; substance use and harm reduction services; mental health services; medical care; and housing and benefits centers. Learn how to access these services.

DPH is also supporting guests who are in the process of being connected to housing and benefits to ensure they receive a direct handoff to access points and service centers at partner City agencies.

Clients who are currently receiving mental health and substance use counseling are being transitioned to clinicians at Harm Reduction Therapy Center locations.   

DPH remains committed to furthering the overdose prevention and health services offered in the Tenderloin, and in other neighborhoods where there is high need.