A look inside the Tenderloin Center

Since opening in January 2022, the Tenderloin Center at 1170 Market St. has offered guests, most of whom are unsheltered, access to free hot meals, showers, laundry and a place to rest away from the public eye. Averaging around 400 visitors per day, the facility also offers support with paperwork for health care, housing referrals and other social services.

On Thursday, June 2, media were allowed for the first time to visit the Tenderloin Center and get a look inside. Guests were not freely coming and going because on Thursdays, the facility opens at 11 a.m. for staff training on site. For the rest of the week it runs from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. In the outdoor space where visitors can use drugs in a supervised setting, health workers are on site to administer naloxone, an overdose reversal medicine. Similar to the pre-existing safe-needle exchanges run by the Department of Public Health across San Francisco, harm-reduction supplies -- including clean needles, pipes and sharps containers to dispose of supplies -- are available in the back corner of the facility's outdoor courtyard.

Meeting basic needs and creating a non-judgmental environment for drug users is a specific part of the strategy to help curb drug overdoses as well, Tenderloin Center interim director Krista Gaeta said. The idea is to draw individuals in with all kinds of services they might need or benefit from, such as free laundry or harm reduction supplies, and be there when an individual does decide to change their relationship with substances.

When they decide to get off new meth and fentanyl, huh. “Decide” You guys are just straight up off your rocker

You are non judgement right? Let’s give everyone of you 3k per person for 3 months. Examiner up for that? Here’s the catch. I pick the people and the city paying for it from their 1 Billion budget LondonBreed sfbos

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