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OUR ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY & TRAJECTORY San Francisco Community Health Center’s (SFCHC) mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness, and equality. SFCHC has been an anchor organization in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco for over 30 years. Formerly known as “Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center”, SFCHC started in the 1980s as a grassroots organization responding to the HIV epidemic in the Asian and Pacific Islander community. SFCHC expanded over time to become one of the largest transgender-serving organizations in San Francisco, the HIV Center of Excellence for the Tenderloin, a national HIV prevention capacity building assistance provider, and in 2015 became the newest federally qualified health center in San Francisco in over