Some neighborhoods — including the Bayview, Potrero Hill, the Tenderloin, the Mission and Visitacion Valley — are disproportionately affected at the local level.
San Francisco is looking at how to provide trauma counseling to those in close proximity to gun violence, not just to the victims themselves.
About 85% of San Franciscans who are impacted are Black and Latino men, despite being less than 10% of The City’s overall population. San Francisco’s existing violence response protocol is focused primarily on connecting victims with therapy resources. The proposal put forward this week by the Department of Public Health would build on those efforts by creating a new position within the department to coordinate trauma responses for residents who aren’t direct victims but are nevertheless affected by gun violence in their neighborhood.
In May, the Board of Supervisors passed a resolution urging the development of an updated gun violence protocol that reaches the wider community. “Mental health needs to be mobilized in communities that suffer the most violence … to help with the trauma young people are facing. As someone who comes from these affected communities, I am in therapy now and am thankful, but it’s been hard to get,” said one San Francisco resident at a public hearing on Thursday about the proposed gun violence protocol.
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