Homelessness and health are inextricably linked. People experiencing homelessness often face extensive physical and behavioral health needs. The health system alone cannot fix every part of the homelessness crisis, but there are important roles it can play.

Our work focuses on medical respite, street medicine, and CalAIM initiatives to help people connect to housing.

On this page, explore our subtopics and read our featured and recent publishing.

Essential Resources on Homelessness

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Homelessness and Health Care

Although the health system cannot fix every part of the homelessness crisis, there are important roles it can play. Explore resources from CHCF that help health care, homeless services providers, government, and other systems work together so people are housed and healthy. CHCF will add to this resource center as new publications and tools become available.

Recently Published

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Issue Spotlight

CalAIM Implementers Convening

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Toolkit

Homebase Transitional Rent Resources

Lisette Carmona, LCSW, Social Work Manager, Clinical Instructor of Family Medicine, Keck School of Medicine of USC alongside Raymond Gonzales, Case Worker at USC Street Medicine speak with patient receiving behavioral health care treatment.
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Issue Brief

Street Medicine: A Critical Pathway for Behavioral Health in California

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Resource Library

Housing-Related Community Supports Implementation Tools