daniel leary, the c.e.o. and founder of tipping point community, and matthew state, the chair of u.c.f. department of psychiatry here in san francisco. i'm excited because these are incredible leaders in our community who are going to help us with some really challenging problems that we know we face as a city. last week we launched the mental health reform initiative to help those at the intersection of homeless, mental illness, and substance abuse disorder in san francisco. and through our detailed analyst, dr. nagusablan and the department of public health have identified the people in our city who are most vulnerable and in need of help. now, to be clear, we see it. but now we have clear and accurate data. of those 4,000 individuals, 41% frequently use urgent and emergency psychiatric services. 95% of those folks suffer from alcohol use disorder. 35% are african-americans, despite the fact that we have a less than 6% population of african-americans in san francisco overall. so we have a lot of work to do

and to daniel leary and the tipping point folks, it's been a remarkable partnership. we're tremendously grateful at ucsf. there are several other people i want to mention. first, i really would like to underscore a tremendous contribution from jane hawgood and john pritzger for their help to launch this collaboration and bring us together. as you've heard today, it will be the partnership of academia and the city and philanthropy that really promises to allow us to move forward on a critically important and admittedly extremely difficult challenge. ucsf and the city have a long partnership beginning 150 years ago, when ucsf doctors began caring for san franciscans in the city's general hospital. today ucsf clinicians continue to care for the city's most vulnerable, including children and adults, at san francisco general hospital and in a range of outstanding community-focused programs for those suffering from mental illness and substance use disorders. from our division of city-wide case management, our division of substance abuse and addiction management, our psychia