Local Care is Best

Edgewood agrees with our partners in San Francisco that children do best when they receive treatment their community. Out of county placements disrupt a child's connection with his or her family and community.

Need for Acute Care

As San Francisco moves to reform and modernize the system, there will still be a need for psychiatric treatment and crisis care. Children in residential treatment programs require around-the-clock supervision, care from doctors and nurses, intensive therapy, and special education. Edgewood is staffed by UCSF Child Psychiatry residents as well as full time psychiatrists and nurses to meet need.

Edgewood is not an alternative to foster care, it is an alternative to a locked psychiatric hospital. Despite best efforts to find community-based solutions for every child, sometimes the acuity of the issues a child is facing threaten their ability to find a lasting home.