When someone you love in San Francisco will not accept help, a professionally led intervention gives your family a calm, prepared way to ask.
A drug and alcohol interventionist prepares the family, arranges treatment in advance and leads the conversation that asks a loved one to accept help. We do this for families in San Francisco, from Mission District to Daly City, traveling in through San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
We work with families across the area, including:
If your son or daughter studies at San Francisco State University or University of San Francisco, we can time the plan around the academic calendar.
Flying in. San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
Local crisis and access line. San Francisco Behavioral Health Access Line (24/7): 888-246-3333.
Public behavioral health. San Francisco Department of Public Health, Behavioral Health Services.
Treatment court. San Francisco Superior Court Drug Court.
Family support. NAMI San Francisco and District 12 Al-Anon Family Groups (San Francisco).
Emergency. Call 911 if a loved one is in immediate danger. Call or text 988 for an emotional crisis.
Who is in the room, what each person says, which program holds a bed. See the full steps.
Your interventionist flies into San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and meets the family before the intervention.
Sober transport to a program near San Francisco or out of state.
In San Francisco County, public behavioral health services run through San Francisco Department of Public Health, Behavioral Health Services.
San Francisco Behavioral Health Services runs a 24/7 access line, 888-246-3333, that helps residents find and connect with mental health or substance use treatment (source).
San Francisco runs a 24/7 Substance Use Relapse Support line at 415-834-1144, separate from its crisis lines, so a family can get help the moment a loved one starts to slip (source).
The Behavioral Health Services Pharmacy at 1380 Howard Street gives out free naloxone with training, plus fentanyl test strips, seven days a week (source).
San Francisco Superior Court Drug Court can connect treatment with a legal case.
NAMI San Francisco and District 12 Al-Anon Family Groups (San Francisco) offer meetings and education for relatives.
In limited cases. California's LPS Act (as amended by SB 43; Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 5008 and § 5200 et seq.) can order treatment when strict legal conditions are met. More detail: how we handle alcohol interventions across California and how we plan drug interventions in California.
Immediate danger: call 911. Emotional crisis: call or text 988.
For San Francisco, San Francisco Behavioral Health Access Line (24/7) answers at 888-246-3333, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
See every community on our California interventionists page.
Yes. Our professional interventionists travel to families in San Francisco, usually through San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Planning starts by phone or video, so your family can begin right away.
Call 911 if anyone is in immediate danger. For San Francisco, San Francisco Behavioral Health Access Line (24/7) answers at 888-246-3333, and 988 takes calls and texts nationwide.
Start with San Francisco Department of Public Health, Behavioral Health Services.
Yes. San Francisco Superior Court Drug Court connects treatment with a criminal case. An intervention can often move someone into treatment before a case starts.
NAMI San Francisco and District 12 Al-Anon Family Groups (San Francisco) offer meetings and education for relatives.
One confidential conversation with a professional interventionist. No pressure, no obligation. We'll help you find the right next step for your family.
