{"id":431528,"date":"2026-08-13T07:04:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431528\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T07:04:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T07:04:56","slug":"sf-reset-center-meant-as-alternative-to-hospital-or-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/431528\/","title":{"rendered":"SF reset center meant as alternative to hospital or jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN FRANCISCO (<a href=\"http:\/\/kron4.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KRON<\/a>) \u2014 It\u2019s been three months since San Fransico opened its Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation and Triage (RESET) Center to get drug users off the streets.<\/p>\n<p>There have been 1,269 people admitted to the center on Sixth Street, according to the San Francisco Sheriff\u2019s Office. Of those, 433 people have accepted referrals to treatment programs, recovery services and support resources. Chief Deputy James Quanico says there\u2019s been a clear improvement in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNight and day from 2018 to driving around the city today, you can see the improvement, the collaboration,\u201d said Chief Quanico.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/jury-awards-33-million-to-girls-orphaned-by-redwood-city-street-racers\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tJury awards $33 million to girls orphaned by Redwood City street racers\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The RESET Center is part of Mayor Daniel Lurie\u2019s Breaking The Cycle initiative. When officers arrest someone for public drug use or intoxication, they take them to the center instead of a hospital or jail. San Francisco Supervisors approved a $14.5 million, 26-month contract to hire Connections Health Solutions to provide care at the RESET Center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey get paid on assuring that they meet the standards that are acquired in the contract, and I think that\u2019s a huge plus, whereas going with a non-profit sometimes you don\u2019t see that,\u201d said Chief Quanico.<\/p>\n<p>While he prefers the results of a profit incentive, others are critical of the model. Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness Jennifer Friedenbach says there\u2019s a problem when a sobering center provides medical care, but not medically assisted treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWould have an incentive not to call an ambulance because the money sign is clicking, tick, tick, tick,\u201d said Friedenbach. \u201cMore and more money the longer they keep people so that\u2019s really not good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friedenbach would rather see more investment in restore beds, where addicts get treatment with things like buprenorphine.<\/p>\n<p>She says making addicts choose between jail time or a sobering center will never break the cycle of addiction they struggle with.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/california\/outside-lands-attendees-stolen-phone-tracked-to-los-angeles\/?ipid=promo-link-block2\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tOutside Lands attendees report phones stolen, tracked to Los Angeles\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you don\u2019t want to do is layer on additional trauma that basically is creating stigma and pushing away from seeking help,\u201d said Friedenbach.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Quanico says a big benefit of the RESET Center is that it often takes officers less than five minutes to get a person admitted, compared to the several hours they are with a person at a jail or hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) \u2014 It\u2019s been three months since San Fransico opened its Rapid Enforcement, Support, Evaluation and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-431528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}