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  • Street medicine practitioner speaks with man in a parking lot.
    Quick Read

    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.

    •Homelessness
  • Street medicine practitioner talks to man experiencing homelessness.
    Quick Read

    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.

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

    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.

    •Homelessness
  • Dr. Matthew Beare and his staff from Clinica Sierra Vista in Bakersfield distribute medical needs and perform checkups on unhoused people along the Kern River.
    Feature Story

    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.  

    •Homelessness
  • Woman experiencing homelessness receives care from a street medicine team.
    Case Study

    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.

    •Homelessness
  • Illustration of doctor treating a person experiencing homelessness in the field. Also called "backpack medicine"
    Expert Perspective

    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.

    •Homelessness
  • Feature Story

    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.

    •Homelessness
  • Street medicine practitioner talks to man experiencing homelessness.
    Tool

    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.

    •Homelessness
  • Street medicine team cleans wound on the leg of a woman experiencing homelessness.
    Project

    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…

    •Homelessness
  • Street medicine team assists a woman experiencing homelessness.
    Project

    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…

    •Homelessness
  • street medicine practitioner helps woman who is experiencing homelessness
    Data Insight

    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…

    •Homelessness
  • Man in baseball cap stands smiling on balcony of apartment building.
    Feature Story

    Clinics Follow Health Pathways to Reach the Unhoused

    How one clinic’s pilot turned into a large-scale project to bring health care services to transitional and permanent supportive housing sites in greater Los Angeles.

    •Homelessness
  • Quick Read

    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…

    •Homelessness
  • Street medicine team cleans wound on the leg of a woman experiencing homelessness.
    Expert Perspective

    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.

    •Homelessness
  • Vehicles sit parked next to tents beneath the overpass of U.S. Highway 101 in Los Angeles, California.
    Data Insight

    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.

    •Homelessness