Provides case management and supervision services to homeless defendants referred by the Court.  We will consider defendants charged with both felonies and misdemeanors.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

• must be a homeless San Francisco resident

• must be able to provide outreach info on where s/he can be found in the
community.

• must express a willingness to work intensively with a
case manager.

Once a client has been released to CAHS, staff  accompany clients to all of their court dates and escort them to other appointments with community providers.  If a client does not comply with check-in requirements, the CAHS case manager or Outreach Worker conducts searches, using the background and/or collateral contact information gathered while the client was in custody.  CAHS is designed as an alternative to pretrial detention, so we therefore can’t consider referrals who are out of custody.