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Family House San Francisco

UCSF Pediatric Family Lodging

What you get

Community and family-support services, meals, and temporary family lodging. Your social worker can ask whether requests are open.

Families cannot contact this program directly; it goes through your care team.

Who starts it
Your social worker
How it’s sent
Through your social worker
Your time
One conversation with your social worker
Last checked
Aug 27, 2026

Before you start, check you fit

  • All referrals are hospital-based and lodging depends on occupancy.
  • The child must be treated at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital.
  • The family must live more than 50 miles from UCSF.

  1. One thing to do: ask your social workerThey send it. You give them what they need.

    Family House San Francisco takes requests from your social worker, not from families. Copy this message, or say it at the next visit.

    Hi [social worker’s name],

Could you send a request to Family House San Francisco for us? They offer community and family-support services, meals, and temporary family lodging, and it has to come from you. Their page is here: https://familyhouseinc.org/family-services/

Tell me what you need from me and I’ll bring it to our next visit. Thank you for everything you do for us.

[your name] · [phone]
    Copying is the only thing this page does with your text. Nothing is saved.

    What to bring to the meeting

    • Your child’s diagnosis, the hospital’s name, and what you need help with.

    What happens next

    • The UCSF pediatric social worker applies the hospital's current qualifications and submits the guest referral through the internal hospital process.
    • Follow the social worker's and Family House staff's instructions about qualification, availability, placement, and arrival.

After your social worker sends it

Follow up with the assigned UCSF social worker for qualification and placement status because no public receipt-confirmation or decision timeline is published.

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