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One of San Francisco s last big homeless camps has been taken down
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Workers from CalTrans clear items at the Merlin Street encampment just before a sweep performed by California Highway Patrol and CalTrans on Monday, May 17, 2021 in San Francisco, Calif.Amy Osborne / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Officers insist to Ashante Jones that he needs to move his belongs immediately at the Merlin Street encampment just before a sweep performed by California Highway Patrol and CalTrans on Monday, May 17, 2021 in San Francisco, Calif.Amy Osborne / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Workers from CalTrans clear items with the help of a front end loader at the Merlin Street encampment just before a sweep performed by California Highway Patrol and CalTrans on Monday, May 17, 2021 in San Francisco, Calif.Amy Osborne / Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Bay Area transit agencies are grappling with spiking homelessness. Here s how BART is trying to help
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Homeless man Chad Cahill is awoken by a man as Cahill tries to sleep at Civic Center BART station in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, February 25, 2021.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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A homeless man identifying himself as Ricky exits a train at Civic Center BART station in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, February 25, 2021.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Commuters await an arriving train at Civic Center BART station in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, February 25, 2021.Scott Strazzante / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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The first time Kirk McClain helped with the homeless count in King county, Washington, he himself had been living unsheltered for five years. He said he remembers stepping out at 2am on a surprisingly warm day in January 2014 along with the handful of others he was paired with, and the surreal feeling of looking under bridges and along a highway to search for those living in parallel circumstances to his own.
After three hours, his group identified about 30 people living unsheltered across a 2sq mile stretch of Burien, a small city just south of Seattle, interviewing some about how long they had been homeless, the services they had received, as well as asking them for their age, race and gender.
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Kelley Cutler was deeply skeptical when she took part in a month-long pilot test of Reveri Health, a new digital hypnosis program, at Stanford University last year. The San Francisco social worker needed help quitting smoking, and only joined the program at her doctorâs urging.
âI was thinking it was nonsense and was never going to work,â says Ms. Cutler, 44, who had smoked for 25 years. Her first hypnosis session, which took place in person with a clinician, was so anxiety-producing that she had to have a cigarette afterward.
Reveri Health, one of a new generation of hypnosis programs and apps that make the practice easily accessible at home, then required her to take part in interactive, self-hypnosis sessions at home for a month. After two of the digital sessions, she was shocked to discover that she no longer felt like smoking. âThe craving was really gone,â she says. âI canât explain it. It doesnât make sen