Our Partnerships

One organization or one community alone cannot achieve our vision of health justice. Working in partnership with other community organizations, local public health agencies, and diverse coalitions is critical to achieve our mission.

We partner regionally, nationally and internationally with the goal of lifting up organizations rooted in communities that support our vision of health justice.

Case Study: Syringe Access Collaborative

Every year, we serve thousands of people who use drugs — many experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity — with critical health and syringe access services through our collaboration with Glide and Homeless Youth Alliance, as part of the Syringe Access Collaborative.

With funding from the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) Community Health Equity & Promotion Section and in partnership with the Street Medicine team and other SFDPH departments, we substantially increased our street-based outreach, safer disposal services, low-threshold medication-assisted treatment, substance use counseling and treatment referrals, overdose prevention and naloxone distribution and hepatitis C testing and treatment.

We are grateful to our Syringe Access Collaborative partners for continuing to prioritize the health and dignity of people who inject drugs and use substances in our community with passion and with empathy.

Our Partnerships

  • AGUILAS
  • AIDS Emergency Fund
  • Alliance Health Project
  • Asian Pacific Islander Equality Northern California (APIENC)
  • Baker Places, Inc.
  • Bay Area Legal Aid
  • Behavioral Health Access Center
  • The Billys Foundation
  • Brilliant Corners
  • California HIV/AIDS Research Program
  • California State Office of AIDS
  • Carnaval San Francisco—Health Pavilion
  • Castro Community Business District
  • Castro Community On Patrol
  • Castro Country Club
  • Castro Merchants (MUMC)
  • Clínica Martín-Baro
  • Catholic Charities
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • César E. Chávez Institute
  • City of Refuge
  • Color Bloq
  • Compass Family Services
  • Covered California
  • East Bay Advancing Care
  • Dignity Fund Coalition
  • Dolores Street Community Services
  • Donde Esta Mi Gente?
  • DOPE Project
  • Drug Policy Alliance
  • El/La Para TransLatinas
  • Family Caregiver Alliance
  • Foglifter Queer Literary Journal
  • Frameline
  • Prism Foundation (formerly, Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Foundation)
  • Getting to Zero
  • GLIDE
  • Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco
  • Gubbio Project
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Harm Reduction Coalition
  • Harm Reduction Therapy Center
  • HealthRIGHT 360
  • HIV/AIDS Provider Network (HAPN)
  • HIV Story Project
  • Homeless Youth Alliance
  • Horizons Unlimited
  • Hospitality House
  • Independent Living Resource Center of San Francisco
  • Instituto Familiar de la Raza
  • La Casa de las Madres
  • La Clínica de la Raza
  • Larkin Street Youth Services
  • The LGBT Asylum Project
  • Lutheran Social Services
  • LYRIC
  • Lyon-Martin Health Services
  • Maitri-Compassionate Care
  • Mission Graduates
  • Mission Neighborhood Health Center
  • Mission Neighborhood Resource Center
  • MPact
  • National AIDS Memorial Grove
  • National Institute on Drug Abuse
  • Native American Health Center
  • The Northern California Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Foundation (NorcalMLK)
  • Openhouse
  • Our Town SF
  • On Lok Lifeways
  • Parivar Queer South Asian Bay Area
  • PAWS
  • Poder
  • Positive Resource Center
  • Positive Women’s Network
  • Progress Foundation
  • Project Homeless Connect
  • Project Inform
  • Project Open Hand
  • Queer Ancestors Project
  • Queer Lifespace
  • Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness
  • Red Envelope Giving Circle
  • Red and Orange House Foundation
  • (RAMS)
  • San Francisco Community Health Center (formerly API Wellness)
  • San Francisco Department of Aging & Adult Services
  • San Francisco Department of Public Health
  • San Francisco Drug Users’ Union
  • San Francisco Fire Department
  • San Francisco General Hospital, Positive Health Program
  • San Francisco LGBT Center
  • San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development
  • San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development
  • San Francisco State University Center for Research and Education on Gender and Sexuality
  • San Francisco Suicide Prevention
  • S.F. Juneteenth Celebration
  • The Shanti Project
  • South of Market Health Center
  • St. Anthony’s Foundation
  • St. Francis Foundation
  • Street Level Health Project
  • Tenderloin Health Improvement Partnership
  • Tenderloin Tessie
  • TGI Justice Project
  • Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center
  • Transgender Law Center
  • Tri-City Health Center
  • Trikone
  • UC Berkeley School of Public Health
  • UCSF 360: The Positive Care Center
  • UCSF Alliance Health Project
  • UCSF Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
  • UCSF Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
  • UCSF Golden Compass
  • UCSF School of Dentistry
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • University of the Pacific School of Dentistry
  • Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de México
  • Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
  • Ciencias de la Salud
  • Westside Community Services
  • YTH

For more information about community partnerships and collaboration, contact us at info@sfaf.org.