Community Resources

ADDICTION & RECOVERY

Al-Anon
Peer support group for loved ones of people affected by addiction. Follows a 12 step model.
BALM (Be a Loving Mirror) Family Recovery Program
Educational recovery program designed to empower families of addicted folks.
Co-Dependents Anonymous
Peer support groups for co-dependent people interested in cultivating healthy, loving relationships. Based on 12-step model.
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
Abstinence-based recovery group for sex and love addicts based on the 12-step model.
SMART (Self Management and Recovery Program)
Peer modeled science based self-empowered recovery program.

HOTLINES

Suicide Prevention Hotline
(415) 781 - 0500  Local
1-800-273-TALK (8255) National
24-hour crisis line provides immediate crisis intervention and emotional support.  Also offers grief groups for those who have lost loved ones to suicide
Talk Line Family Support Center (415) 441 - KIDS (5437)
Promotes healthy families through a variety of programs, including a 24-hour crisis line, parent and child counseling, parent drop-in center, children's playroom, job assistance, and other family support services
Child Crisis  (415) 970 - 3800
For any youth-related emergency or abuse reporting.
Safety Line (Communities United Against Violence)  (415) 333 - HELP (4357)
LGBTQ anti-violence organization.  Peer-counseling, direct assistance, education and outreach, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy.
Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
Emergency line 1-800-832-1901 (based in Boston)
Crisis intervention, support and resources for victims and survivors or domestic abuse
California Courts Self-Help
Assistance with restraining orders, child custody, criminal justice system, etc.
SFWAR – San Francisco Women Against Rape  (415) 861 - 2024
Provides resources, support, advocacy and education to strengthen the work of all individuals, and communities in San Francisco that are responding to, healing from, and struggling to end sexual violence.
Trauma Recovery Center / Rape Treatment Center  (415) 437 - 3000
Promotes healing through respectful, compassionate, and effective mental health and medical services.
National Domestic Violence Hotline  (800) 799 - SAFE (7233)
Provides crisis intervention, information and referral to victims of domestic violence, perpetrators, friends and families.

MEDITATION, MINDFULNESS & REGULATION

Befriending Ourselves 
Resource booklet for inner peace and compassionate self care.
Dharmaseed.org 
Comprehensive streaming recordings from Western Buddhist Vipassana teachings.
EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique 
EFT is a technique supportive of emotional regulation and trauma release.
Headspace  
Meditation and sleep app.
Insight Timer
Mindfulness based recordings and timer for meditation practice.
MBSR - Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Techniques and classes following a model created by Jon Kabat-Zinn.

MENTAL HEALTH

NAMI - National Alliance on Mental Illness
A nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support, and advocacy organization for and comprised by consumers, families, and friends of people with mental illness.