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Reckoning With State and Federal Cuts, Los Angeles Safety-Net Clinics Push for a New Tax
LA County’s June ballot includes a half-cent sales tax that could generate $1 billion a year to protect community clinics from Medi-Cal cuts.
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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.
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Street Medicine Team’s Behavioral Health Care Builds Trust with Inland Empire’s Unhoused Residents
Long-acting injectables and other medications offer lifelines to patients with substance-use disorder and mental health challenges
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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…
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Listening to Californians with Complex Needs: Homelessness
This fact sheet draws from a major research project and examines the experiences of Californians experiencing homelessness. They found that access to empathic care managers is crucial for navigating complex systems and that safe, stable housing helps achieve lasting recovery.
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Enhancing Financial Sustainability for Street Medicine: Examining Medi-Cal Managed Care Contracts with California Providers
This issue brief provides a snapshot of contracting efforts between a sample of Medi-Cal managed care plans and street medicine providers. It examines the impact that those contracts are having on street medicine providers’ financial sustainability.
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Street Medicine
Our work in street medicine examines care models for unsheltered Californians. We analyze outreach approaches, workforce needs, and payment systems, identifying practices that improve health outcomes while connecting homeless people to comprehensive services and housing pathways.
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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.
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Protecting Unhoused Patients from the Harms of Encampment Sweeps
Sweeps cause patients to lose critical medications, identity documents, personal belongings, and even durable medical equipment. They harm people’s health, take an enormous emotional toll, and waste valuable health care resources, experts say.
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Lessons from the Field: How Health Care and Homeless Service Providers Partner for Action
Over 70 homelessness and health care experts converged last fall to exchange ideas and spotlight innovative programs aimed at helping people experiencing homelessness. The meeting was part of the Partnerships for Action collaborative initiative spreading best practices across sectors.
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Perspective: Finding a Place to Be Somebody
A formerly unhoused person shares his transformative journey from living on the streets of West Oakland to finding his voice in policy-making focused on reducing homelessness.
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Homelessness Summit for Journalists Emphasizes Need for Firsthand Sources
The importance of elevating the voices of people with lived experience of homelessness and housing as a social determinant of health emerged as themes at a special meeting of the Association of Health Care Journalists in Oakland.
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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.
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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…
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Street Medicine in California: Delivering Care to People Who Are Unhoused
People experiencing homelessness often have serious physical and behavioral health needs but little access to traditional health care facilities and providers. CHCF supports projects that expand proven models of street medicine programs that are responsive and equitably focused on people’s…
