GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives. Through its integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, GLIDE empowers individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and to thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization

GLIDE’s Health Empowerment and Access Programs are at the forefront of innovative and collaborative approaches in San Francisco. The program’s goals are to improve our community’s wellness through linkages to medical services, collaboration with community and city providers, advocacy for underserved and marginalized individuals and engagement in recovery and health improvement activities. The Health Access Navigator provides support to individuals with a history of substance use and co-occurring disorders who are in immediate need of harm reduction supplies, health services, substance use treatment and other support. The Health Access Navigator provides supplies, health education, information, linkages, referrals and other support as needed to help clients overcome barriers, provide early interventions, and long-term services and care. Though trained cross-functionally across Health Empowerment and Access services, this position primarily supports the provision of safer use supplies, proactive counseling, referrals, and linkages to wrap-around health services at Glide’s Syringe Access Services (SAS) to people who use drugs (PWUD) and those experiencing homelessness.

GLIDE’s buildings are located in the Tenderloin neighborhood.  GLIDE maintains an "open door" policy to the community and its clients, who frequently enter and leave the building.