The May/June edition of the National HCH Council’s monthly policy action alert newsletter is live! Here’s what’s in it: Want to receive Mobilizer in your inbox each month? Sign up here!
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Is your health center effectively engaging consumers? We have a new tool to help you better understand just that! Patient perspective contributes to the mission to bring equitable, high quality health care to people with lived experience of homelessness, so it’s important to work toward establishing best practices for consumer engagement and leadership. The National
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There are many connection points between homelessness and human trafficking, and it’s important that clinicians and care providers who work with people experiencing homelessness have access to accurate and thorough information about these connection points. However, many people are exposed to inaccurate information about the nature of human trafficking in the U.S. and globally. Not
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Congratulations to this year’s scholarship and award recipients, who we honored during the 2023 Annual National Health Care for the Homeless Conference & Policy Symposium in Baltimore! Watch the full awards luncheon — including speeches by those honored — here. Philip W. Brickner National Leadership Award BRIAN BICKFORD Brian Bickford is a licensed mental health
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6/8/23 Note: Due to technical difficulties, this webinar had to be rescheduled. We’ll post a link to the rescheduled webinar once it’s available! Join the National HCH Council June 6 at 11 a.m. CDT for an in-depth analysis and discussion of the recently published California Street Medicine Landscape Survey and Report. This first-of-its-kind study looks
A study published last month in the Journal of the American Medical Association 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, plus many other detrimental impacts. The study was authored by a multidisciplinary group of
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The April edition of the National HCH Council’s monthly policy action alert newsletter is live! Here’s what’s in it: Want to get this newsletter straight to your inbox each month? Sign up for it here.
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In 2022, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council chaired the development of the Caucus on Homelessness (CoH) program for the American Public Health Association (APHA) 2022 Annual Meeting and Expo. The theme of the annual meeting was: “150 Years of Creating the Healthiest Nation: Leading the Path Toward Equity.” Social equity is, as
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