Social Rehabilitation

One of the foundational principles of PRC Baker Places is the creation of a homelike environment in which treatment is provided and healing can occur.

Many of our clients have lived in challenging settings located in neighborhoods that are impediments to healthy lifestyles and where safety is an issue. In contrast, the small milieu setting at PRC Baker Places helps to facilitate a “real world” experience, enabling clients to feel safe and at home. PRC Baker Place residents are actively involved in highly-structured programs that emphasize the development of group living skills.

As a continuum of care, the agency is uniquely positioned to move clients from one program to another. These same clients are often rejected from other treatment programs unable or unwilling to deal with these complexities. At PRC Baker Places, we welcome them.

Acute Services

Serving individuals in urgent need of detoxification or in acute distress from a combination of psychiatric and addiction issues.

Grove Street House

This program serves individuals in acute distress resulting from a combination of psychiatric and addiction issues. Clients may stay up to 60 days, with the possibility of extending their time for continuing treatment reasons. While the stay is brief, the treatment model is informed by a social rehabilitation approach, emphasizing individualized treatment planning and group participation in a milieu setting.

Navigation Services

Navigation Centers provide otherwise unsheltered San Franciscans room and board while case managers work to connect them to stable income, public benefits, permanent housing and other supportive services.

Hummingbird Place

The PRC Baker Places Psychiatric Respite program, Hummingbird Place, is a 29-bed overnight facility with an average stay of 14 days. The program successfully provides an integrated, social rehabilitation, trauma informed, and harm-reduction model within a social milieu that will support clients in all areas of their recovery. By combining one-on-one peer support and professional staffing, Hummingbird Place will offer a unique short-term overnight model that facilitates patient stabilization, provides linkage to social services, and offers clients an opportunity for referral to longer-term treatment and recovery.

Residential Treatment Services

These services provide up to 90 days of residential treatment. All residential programs are licensed through the California Department of Health Care Services.

Mental Health Programs

Baker Street

A transitional residential treatment facility, serving individuals with serious and persistent mental health problems. There are sixteen beds at this program.

Robertson Place

A transitional residential treatment program with a day treatment component focusing on adults who have been diagnosed with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. There are twelve beds at this program.

Jo Ruffin Place

San Jose Place

Substance Use Programs

Ferguson Place

This residential treatment program was the first of its kind to address HIV/AIDS issues in people with co-occurring substance use and mental health issues. Treatment is provided using a social rehabilitation recovery and wellness approach that uses staff, peers, and community support to enhance self-esteem and community participation. Individual treatment planning and counseling, groups, and structure are provided using a client-centered approach in order to address the diverse needs of participants.

Licensed and certified by the State Department of Healthcare Services

License number: 380001CN,

Expiration date: 1/31/25

Intake and Authorization Forms

For us to schedule an intake, we need the following information faxed to us at 415-864-2086 or secure email to [email protected].
Please include “Intake” in the subject line.

Click Below to Access Intake Forms

Intake Referral for 60 and 90 Day Programs

Pre-Transfer Screening and Treatment of Lice, Scabies, Bedbugs or Other Infestations

Placement Authorization Request Form

MRD89 Adult/Older Adult Assessment

Physicians Report for Community Facilities

Please fill out this form if you or the client population you serve are interested in hearing more about our residential treatment services,
and our intake team will get back to you within 2 business days.

Residential Services Intake Form

To connect with us as soon as possible, please don’t hesitate to reach out to us by phone at

415-864-1515.

Supportive Housing

Real and sustained treatment success is critically linked to ongoing support following residential treatment services. PRC Baker Places achieves this through two types of supportive housing.

Co-Op Transitional Living

The Assisted Independent Living Program (AILP) was established to meet this need for clients desiring continued assistance to manage and structure their lives. Clients form relationships with other clients, and PRC Baker Places provides a flat or apartment where they can live together while receiving case management services from the staff. Today, there are between 80 to 100 individuals residing in apartments across the city. The Baker Supported Housing Program (BSLP) is a similar temporary subsidy and case management program for people with substance use and HIV/AIDS. Through BSLP, approximately 60 clients live in scattered site housing across the city.

Permanent Supportive Housing

The Odyssey House Program

PRC Baker Places created the Odyssey House Program with HUD funding in 1991. This large, fully-restored Victorian provides permanent housing for African American adults who were formerly institutionalized for extensive periods of time, or who lived on the street for many years. The Odyssey House maintains an active program for clients to develop independent living skills. The Odyssey House is licensed as an Adult Residential Facility and has 24-hour staffing. It is the only such program in the city of San Francisco.

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