'Siloed, Stigmatized, And Separated': Mental Health Reform 101 With Dr. Hillary Kunins

San Francisco CA

28 October, 2021

8:10 PM

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By Anlan Cheney, Mission Local October 28, 2021 Homelessness is one of San Francisco's most visible and painful realities. How one frames it could be telling: a blight, a problem, an opportunity. If you're the city's new director of behavioral health services, though, you'd frame it as an iceberg. As in: You only see the tip of it while walking around the city. "Think what is visible," said Dr. Hillary Kunins, the city's director of behavioral health services, in a Tuesday night event at Manny's on 16th and Valencia streets. "Seeing lots of people on the street, many experiencing mental health and substance abuse problems." As for what's beneath the tip of the iceberg, Kunins summed it up as the precipitating factors of poverty, trauma, and housing. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.