he Children's Health Center provides health care to children and young people up to the age of twenty-one years old. Services included are acute care, emergency care, and well-child care. Drop-in acute care is available for children requiring evaluation of health status, diagnosis and treatment of acute illness, preventative services, and follow up. Routine immunization histories are maintained at the time children are properly vaccinated. The Children's Health Center serves as the off-hours Pediatric Urgent Care site for the Community Health Network (CHN) and its affiliated partners.
The Teen Trauma Recovery Using Supportive Teamwork (TRUST) is part of the Children’s Health Center. TRUST is the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center’s (SFGH) primary care adolescent health clinic focused on caring for teens who are victims of violence in San Francisco. TRUST provides comprehensive services including coordination with multiple service providers and agencies such as Pediatrics, Trauma Surgery, Mental Health, Wound Specialists, Physical Therapy, Social Workers, SF Unified School District, and the California Children’s Services (CCS). TRUST was started in 2005 to respond to the increasing number of teenage patients with serious mental and physical complications from violent traumatic injury.
