826 Valencia Tenderloin Center helps students find their voices

Our Tenderloin Center was featured on the American Hospital Association’s website. Read more.

Our presence in the Tenderloin was featured on the American Hospital Association’s website as part of the Tenderloin Health Improvement Partnership Case Study. Check it out!

“Children growing up in this neighborhood experience persistent and traumatic stress disorders from exposure to a myriad of social and environmental challenges on a daily basis,” Kiss says. “We know that adverse childhood experiences are negative drivers of long-term mental and physical health. In keeping with our commitment to upstream interventions at the ‘tip of the spear,’ we support initiatives that [positively] impact the drivers of the chronic conditions that end up in our emergency room and psychiatric unit.”