You’re invited to join our virtual NCAB Membership meeting on Thursday, January 30, 2025, from 2:00pm to 3:00pm (CT). This meeting is a chance to meet other lived experience leaders from across the country, share a little bit about yourself, and learn how you can get involved with NCAB. We’ll also share more information about […]
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Learning Collaborative Description The National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC) and the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium (NNCC) are hosting a 4-part participatory learning collaborative on growing and sustaining nurse-led care delivery models. This Learning Collaborative (LC) is designed for any health center that utilizes registered nurses (RNs) or licensed practical nurses (LPNs) as leaders
Funding for a medical respite program can be one of the most critical and challenging aspects of a programs’ operation. Many medical respite programs must use multiple sources of funding to cover all aspects of the program and to ensure access to all who are referred to the program. The Funding a Medical Respite Program
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Health Care for the Homeless Health Centers (HCHs) and Medical Respite Care (MRC) programs serve consumers with different kinds of housing-related social needs. However, while HCHs and MRC programs are ideal places to begin addressing needs for consumers who are transitioning into (or preparing to transition into) housing, it is very challenging to do so
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Transitional-age youth (TAY), defined as individuals aged 18-24 years old, experiencing homelessness have distinct health care and housing needs compared to older adults and younger children. Meaningful engagement of transitional-age youth in services, consumer leadership, and health center governance is essential for developing programs that effectively address their unique needs. While there is often high
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE More than 200 expected for inaugural event Sept. 12-13 Sacramento, Calif. – Recuperative care, also known as medical respite care, is becoming nationally recognized as a bridge between homelessness and interim housing. With the introduction of CalAIM in 2022, Recuperative Care programs are developing across California at an astounding rate. The National
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Today the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) published a study that shows encampment sweeps, bans, move-along orders and cleanups that forcibly relocate individuals away from essential services will lead to substantial increases in overdose deaths, hospitalizations and life-threatening infections as well as hinder access to medications for opioid use disorder (along with other
President Biden issued his budget on March 9, which outlined the Administration’s policy priorities and vision for federal spending in the next year. Important for the HCH Community, the HHS and HUD budgets include significant expansions to health care and housing programs, largely paid by making the rich pay their fair share in taxes. Key take-aways from our recently updated Appropriations chart and fact sheet of the
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