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Homelessness & Health Care
On any given day, more than 150,000 people experience homelessness in California. Being homeless is dangerous to your health: People who live on the streets die an average 20 years earlier than people who are housed. CHCF has launched work to improve the delivery of health and social services to people experiencing homelessness, with the goal of promoting care that is responsive, person-centered, and focuses on the patient’s emotional, physical, and psychological needs.


CHCF Blog

Clinics Follow Health Pathways to Reach the Unhoused

March 8, 2023
Claudia Boyd-Barrett
Homelessness & Health Care
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.
CHCF Blog

Tech Start-up Dives Into Medi-Cal Enhanced Care Management

March 1, 2023
Brian Rinker
Investing in Innovation, Medi-Cal, Homelessness & Health Care, Behavioral Health
Pair Team, a CHCF investee, supports delivery of services established through the CalAIM initiative.
CHCF Blog

Knitting Together Health and Social Services in Los Angeles

January 25, 2023
Dalma Diaz
Homelessness & Health Care
An interview with Dr. Clemens Hong at the LA County Department of Health Services.
Publication

Housing-Related Community Supports

January 2023
Corporation for Supportive Housing
Homelessness & Health Care
This handbook was produced to help managed care plans (MCPs) navigate what may be unfamiliar territory and to support them in establishing and strengthening relationships with partners in the housing-related sector. The handbook provides key considerations, useful steps, and best practices that MCP staff will need to successfully implement the housing-related Community Supports.
Resource

Medi-Cal Academy Training Series

Homelessness & Health Care
Created by the Corporation for Support Housing (CSH) for Housing & Homeless Service Providers Interested in Providing Housing-Related Community Supports through CalAIM. All materials and recordings from the Medi-Cal Academy Training Series will be made available to the public on this page.
CHCF Blog

Reflections on CalAIM’s First Year

January 9, 2023
Melora Simon
Medi-Cal, Health Equity, Behavioral Health, Data Exchange, Homelessness & Health Care
A review of what CalAIM has already undertaken and a look over the horizon at what is still to come.
CHCF Blog

Prescription for Better Health: A Home

December 14, 2022
Claudia Boyd-Barrett
Homelessness & Health Care
In Los Angeles County, a 10-year-old program has moved 20,000 formerly homeless people with complex health needs into housing. It now serves as a model for communities nationwide.
CHCF Blog

Street Medicine in California: ‘Go to the People’

December 12, 2022
Avram Goldstein
Homelessness & Health Care, Behavioral Health, Health Equity
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.
CHCF Blog

California Bets Big on Housing in Medicaid

September 27, 2022
Steven Birenbaum
Medi-Cal, Homelessness & Health Care
A new episode of the health policy podcast Tradeoffs sheds light on CalAIM’s origin story through the experiences of Medi-Cal’s director, Jacey Cooper.
CHCF Blog

California Lawmakers Approved CARE Court. What Comes Next?

September 22, 2022
Manuela Tobias, Jocelyn Wiener
Homelessness & Health Care, Behavioral Health
Now that Governor Gavin Newsom’s court system for people with severe mental illness has been enacted, counties face a series of practical questions critical to turning the fuzzy concept into a reality.
CHCF Blog

Start-Up Gains Traction with Support Platform for People Experiencing Homelessness

August 18, 2022
Brian Rinker
Homelessness & Health Care, Investing in Innovation
In California, where on any given day more than 150,000 people experience homelessness, some health care organizations are turning to a start-up company that incentivizes unhoused people to engage with case management and medical care.
Project

Partnerships for Action: California Health Care & Homelessness Learning Collaborative

July 2022
Homelessness & Health Care
This two-year learning collaborative will support eight cross-sector teams of California-based organizations partnering to improve health care for people experiencing homelessness.
CHCF Blog

‘House Calls’ for People Experiencing Homelessness

June 9, 2022
Claudia Boyd-Barrett
Homelessness & Health Care
Under a grant program developed by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles, local health care organizations and clinics brought the medical services directly to people staying at Project Roomkey hotels.
CHCF Blog

Innovation at the Intersection of Health Care and Homelessness

June 8, 2022
Kathy Moses
Medi-Cal, Homelessness & Health Care
A conversation with California’s Medicaid director, Jacey Cooper, about how CalAIM will bring together a broad range of stakeholders to improve the health of Medi-Cal members experiencing homelessness.
Publication

How to Share Data: A Practical Guide for Health and Homeless Systems of Care

May 2022
Homebase
Homelessness & Health Care, Data Exchange
This practical guide is intended to serve as a tool for communities at any stage of engagement in cross-sector data sharing between health and homeless systems of care. It is designed to help communities ready to start such efforts for the first time, as well as those that have room to grow their data sharing efforts.
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