Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc

Primary Care clinic, FQHC. San Francisco Community Health Center has been a federally qualified health ceneter since 2015. The Wellness Center provides culturally competent primary and mental health care at highest qualityto low-income resident, the LGBTQ with Transgender individuals in particular. The Wellness Center cares for refugees, immigrants, and communities of color who are homeless and ay experience homelessness in the Tenderloing Neighborhood of an Francisco. SFCHC operated a free clinic from 2010 through its FQHC designation in 2015. SFCHC operates primary dental preventatative care at its facility located 1800 Market Street, within 2 mile radius. An expanded Substance Use Disorder service is provided at its 730 Polk Street and Marker Street facilities. Our fully-integrated, whole-person health care approach are compassionate and humanizing. Regardless of their situation, our patients reveive the highest quality of care. Our Community Engagement programs are fully integrated and wrap-around the needs of our patients and clientele. 392 total community workgroups connected, supported, and 35,106 meals were served. In FYE 2025, 4,355 unique patients were cared which generated 21,427 clinical encounters.

Any Other Programs - HIV Education and Services, predominatly Ryan White Parts funded connected 342 groups, served 12,500 meals to clientele. Our Transformational Capacity Building Assistance [CBA] programs offered much needed services through Empower HER, LGBTQ Health Equity Initiative and the San Francisco Transgender Alliance for Health Resources [STAHR] are sunsetting due to lack of government and private fuding. Health Policy works provides a platform for SFCHC to challenge discriminatory practices, promote inclusive healthcare systems, address structural inequities around housing access to health care, and systemic racism.Asian and Paicific Islander Wellness Center Community Engagement and Integrated Services is a wrap-around approach in delivering a fully-integrated and whole person care. We cannot address more acute health care needs if they have not eaten anything that day. Through our Community Living Room program, 35,106 meals were served. Emphasis on nelonging through community-based programming. Our Community Living Room is ahub for people experiencing homelessness. The space is run by community ambassadors who are hired and trained directly from the community. These are individuals who were or are experiencing homelessness, substance users and now in recovery, former and active sex workers, and immigrants. Community Ambassadors are also San Franciscto and tenderloin residents who grew up, live and work in the area. 392 community engagement/groups were coordinated and hosted in our Community Living Room.