After 10 years of hiding under bushes, down dank alleys and bouncing in and out of crowded homeless shelters, Sabrina Jones had had enough. The street counselor who’d been bugging her since last year to give San Francisco’s Mission Street Navigation Center a try won out. Jones went in.

More than a month later, she is free of heroin, getting therapy for depression, and is lined up for supportive housing.

At 49, with her first two grandchildren recently born, Jones would like to be part of their lives — and she says the Navigation Center’s phalanx of programs convinced her that it might actually be possible.

[For more on this story by Kevin Fagan, go to https://www.sfchronicle.com/ba...m-to-be-13025012.php]