Who We Are
The mission of Bayview Hunters Point Foundation is to build a community that is empowered, clean, safe and healthy. Our purpose is to provide healing, promote empowerment, and foster justice. We envision the Bayview as a thriving, multicultural community – where all residents may live with dignity, integrity and fulfillment.
Board OF DIRECTORS
Susan Watson
Chair
Wayzel Fuller
Vice Chair
Adam Cray
Treasurer
Claude Everhart
Secretary
Staff Leadership
Gina Salazar
Director of Enhanced Care Management
Jemal Taylor
Director of Residential Services
Iyeshia Valentine
Director of Housing Services
BVHPF HISTORICAL TIMELINE (OUR HISTORY)
1971
Bayview Hunters Point Foundation for Community Improvement founded by Ernest Mitchell, Jr. with initial Community Defender program, providing free legal services to Black Bayview residents.
1972
BVHPF began operating an outpatient methadone maintenance and counseling program, which continues to this day as the only OMM program in the Bayview.
1976
BVHPF begins providing counseling and prevention services for youth in the Bayview.
1979
BVHPF begins providing outpatient adult and youth mental health services.
1980s and 1990s
BVHPF provides HIV/AIDS services and expands mental health services and school counseling services in the Bayview and other San Francisco neighborhoods.
2010s
BVHPF begins providing case management services to formerly homeless residents in long-term residential facilities in the Bayview and Tenderloin.
BVHPF assumes sponsorship of the former Jelani House, Inc. organization, managing properties that house the Homeless Prenatal Program’s Jelani House and BVHPF’s Jelani Residential Step Down.
BVHPF opens Jelani Residential Step Down transitional housing and treatment for families recovering from substance abuse.
2019-2022
BVHPF operates and/or provides support services at several San Francisco shelter-in-place (SIP) hotels during the COVID epidemic.
BVHPF opens Bayview SAFE, the largest navigation center for homeless individuals in San Francisco. BVHPF also begins providing housing and case management services to assist formerly homeless individuals and families to secure and maintain permanent supporting housing.
BVHPF purchases the 20,000 sf building in the Bayview which serves as organization headquarters and counseling center.
2023-2024
BVHPF begins providing counseling and treatment services to individuals incarcerated in the San Francisco jails. BVHPF also begins addressing food insecurity in the Bayview with a large food pantry program.
BVHPF begins operating Holloway House transitional housing, and also begins providing Enhanced Case Management services through contracts with Anthem, Kaiser and the San Francisco Health Plan.
Following 50 years of dedicated service to our most disadvantaged and vulnerable communities, BVHPF now provides comprehensive, integrated support to over 1,500 individuals and families in San Francisco. With over 170 employees and an annual budget of over $20 million, BVHPF is now one of the largest BIPOC organizations in the Bay Area.