Homelessness & Health Care - California Health Care Foundation

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.

Clinics Follow Health Pathways to Reach the Unhoused

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.

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

Investing in Innovation, Medi-Cal, Homelessness & Health Care, Behavioral Health

Pair Team, a CHCF investee, supports delivery of services established through the CalAIM initiative.

Knitting Together Health and Social Services in Los Angeles

January 25, 2023

Homelessness & Health Care

An interview with Dr. Clemens Hong at the LA County Department of Health Services.

Housing-Related Community Supports

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.

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.

Reflections on CalAIM’s First Year

January 9, 2023

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

August 18, 2022

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.

Partnerships for Action: California Health Care & Homelessness Learning Collaborative

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.

‘House Calls’ for People Experiencing Homelessness

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.

Innovation at the Intersection of Health Care and Homelessness

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.

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

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.