Key Topic: Street Medicine

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    Webinar — Street Medicine: A Critical Pathway for Behavioral Health in California

    This webinar convened leaders from street medicine, county behavioral health, and Medi-Cal managed care to explore how street medicine can strengthen behavioral health care for unhoused Californians.

  • 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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    Street Medicine: A Critical Pathway for Behavioral Health in California

    The California Street Medicine Collaborative is the statewide voice for street medicine. It brings together more than 80 street-medicine programs, more than 1000 members, and more than 275 organizations to strengthen the field statewide. Hosted by USC Street Medicine, the…

  • Street medicine practitioner visits with a client who is experiencing homelessness. Illustration created with Adobe Firefly
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    Street Medicine

    Although the health system cannot fix every part of the homelessness crisis, there are important roles it can play. CHCF envisions a future where different systems work together effectively so people are housed and healthy.

  • Street medicine practitioner visits with a client who is experiencing homelessness. Illustration created with Adobe Firefly
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    Homelessness & Health Care

    Although the health system cannot fix every part of the homelessness crisis, there are important roles it can play. CHCF envisions a future where different systems work together effectively so people are housed and healthy.

  • Street medicine practitioner assesses client's injury
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    CIN Webinar — Navigating Cross-Sector Challenges in a Street Medicine Partnership

    This CIN webinar focused on how a health care organization and a social services organization are addressing operational challenges in their partnership to provide street medicine and supportive services to individuals experiencing homelessness.

  • Patient and provider talk during clinic visit.
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    California’s Health Care for the Homeless Grantees

    Health Care for the Homeless programs are federally funded community health centers required to serve a population composed primarily of people experiencing homelessness. In California these programs are a crucial component of the state’s health care safety net.

  • Street medicine practitioner talks to man experiencing homelessness.
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    Financial Planning for Street Medicine Providers in California

    This practical toolkit can help health care providers and community-based organizations in California maximize available funding to support existing street medicine programs, or develop new ones.

  • Street medicine team cleans wound on the leg of a woman experiencing homelessness.
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    Video Series: Street Medicine Teams Deliver Care

    These “video site visits” may be particularly helpful to clinicians or organizations interested in launching or expanding street medicine programs. Viewers will learn about different models, engagement strategies, and street-based health care interventions. The series captures the common philosophy guiding…

  • street medicine practitioner helps woman who is experiencing homelessness
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    The California Street Medicine Landscape Survey and Report

    This study is the first to examine and report on the current state of street medicine in California. With the largest concentration of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the nation, California is well positioned to scale the street medicine model…

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    A Game Changer for Street Medicine: Key Takeaways from New Medi-Cal Guidelines

    In November 2022, California’s Department of Health Care Services shared an “All Plan Letter” that could make it easier for communities to establish, maintain, and fully leverage street medicine programs.This issue brief lays out the major implications of this new…

  • Street medicine team cleans wound on the leg of a woman experiencing homelessness.
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    Street Medicine in California: ‘Go to the People’

    California’s persistent homelessness crisis has fueled rapid growth in community street medicine programs dedicated to bringing health care and social services to unsheltered people.

  • Vehicles sit parked next to tents beneath the overpass of U.S. Highway 101 in Los Angeles, California.
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    For One in Five Californians, Homelessness Is Personal, CHCF Survey Finds

    The findings underscore the urgency of collaboration to ensure success of the nascent CalAIM initiative to integrate Medi-Cal more seamlessly with social services.

  • Doctor checking in with person experiencing homelessness, at encampment
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    Understanding Street Medicine Programs in California

    Street medicine brings vital health care services to people experiencing unsheltered homelessness. This project seeks to better understand the characteristics of these programs and the policies and funding mechanisms that support and sustain them.

  • Illustration of doctor treating a person experiencing homelessness in the field. Also called "backpack medicine"
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    Street Medicine Programs Improvise to Meet Shifting Challenges

    Using approaches tailored to local needs and resources, mobile teams provide humane care to unhoused people in cities and counties across California.

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    Street Medicine Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic

    The Center for Health Care Strategies recently spoke with representatives from the Los Angeles Christian Health Centers and with a provider from the Street Team Outreach Medical Program at the Roots Community Health Center in Oakland to learn more about…