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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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Blueprint for Sobering Care in California: Implementation Guide
Sobering centers provide a safe, short-term alternative to emergency departments and jails for people experiencing acute intoxication from alcohol or other drugs. This resource guide supports the development, implementation, and sustaining of sobering centers in California.
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Sobering Centers Explained, 2025 Updates
The landscape of sobering care in California has undergone substantial transformation in recent years. This report captures key lessons from the sobering centers that now serve 16 California counties.
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Listening to Californians with Complex Needs: Transitioning from Incarceration
People leaving jail or prison often experience multiple health and social needs all at once. This fact sheet draws on interviews with people leaving incarceration to better understand their needs.
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Community Health Centers Find New Ways to Bring Lifesaving Care to Patients with Substance Use Disorder
The result is care that meets patients where they are by blending trust, follow-through, and a strong dose of compassion.
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Substance Use in California Almanac — 2025 Edition
Substance Use in California: Prevalence and Treatment uses the most recent data available to provide an overview of substance use and addiction in California. Topics include prevalence of substance use, emergency department visits, deaths, and treatment.
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Listening to Californians with Complex Needs: Behavioral Health
This fact sheet draws from a major research project and examines the experiences of Californians with behavioral health conditions. Participants shared the need for integrated care with fewer eligibility requirements and the importance of care managers with lived experience, especially.
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Listening to Californians with Complex Needs
Learn about the first-hand experiences of Californians with complex health and social needs as they seek care. Read the full report and its fact sheets from EVITARUS.
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In a Nation Growing Hostile Toward Drugs and Homelessness, Los Angeles Tries Leniency
As they contend with a homeless population estimated around 75,000, LA County leaders embrace harm reduction, a range of more lenient strategies that can include helping people more safely use drugs.
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Patients in Crisis Get Face-to-Face Help from ‘Bridge Navigators’ in the Emergency Department
CHWs are pioneering a way a way to ease the overload in hospital emergency rooms and steer patients toward lifesaving therapies.
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A Home and Healing: How Medicaid Improves Health and Lowers Costs Among Members Experiencing Homelessness
States are using Medicaid to provide housing services for members experiencing homelessness, improving health outcomes and reducing costs through care management paired with housing assistance.
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What Is Lay Counseling?
This fact sheet shows how lay counselors can bridge the mental health workforce gap by providing evidence-based support comparable to that offered by licensed therapists.
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Sobering Centers
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.
