Find Best Practices and Research View resources on health care and homelessness. FIND Immediate Help Now Browse homeless service organizations near you. TAKE ACTION TO End Homelessness Lift your voice for health care and housing justice! REQUEST Technical Assistance Request advice or training in homeless health care. Incarceration and Homelessness Incarceration and homelessness are intimately linked. Homelessness is often the result of criminal justice involvement, and in turn, people experiencing homelessness are criminalized for living their private lives in public. Learn more from the resources below about this relationship. NHCHC Resources Law Enforcement & Homelessness: Forging Fruitful Partnerships (2018) Stopping the Revolving Door: How Health Centers Can Serve Justice-Involved Populations (2018) Overcoming Health & Housing Challenges for Justice-Involved Populations (2018) Healthy Release: Health Centers Working to Improve Health and Housing Outcomes for Justice-Involved Populations (2017) Slide Deck 1; Slide Deck 2 Incarceration & Homelessness: A Revolving Door of Risk (2013) Keeping Homeless People out of the Justice System: The HCH Role(2004) Reaching in to Help Out: Relationships Between HCH Projects and Jails (2004) – Nancy McBride, Policy Research Associates, Inc., for the National HCH Council Additional Resources Prison Policy Initiative: The Revolving Door Between Homeless Shelters and Prisons in Connecticut (2021) Policing, Incarceration, Homelessness, & COVID-19 (2020): Webinar by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty Prison Policy report: Nowhere to Go: Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people (2018) Vera Institute: On Life Support: Public Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2014) RWJF: Mass Incarceration Threatens Health Equity in America (2019) Housing Not Handcuffs: Ending the Criminalization of Homelessness in US Cities: By the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty UNDERSTANDING HOMELESSNESS CLINICAL PRACTICE Homeless Services Best Practices Assessment & Intake Case Management Case Reports Core Competencies Curriculum Discharge Planning Emergency Preparedness Encampments HCH Costing Tool Toolkit Health Center-Specific Resources Interdisciplinary Care Outreach Patient-Centered Medical Home and Meaningful Use Permanent Supportive Housing Prescription Drugs Provider Burnout Quality Improvement Shelter Health Telehealth Workplace Safety Ethical and Cultural Issues Anti-Racism Cultural Competency Medical Ethics Poverty & Health Special Populations Children, Youth & Families Incarceration and Homelessness Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Queer Health Older Adults Rural Populations Veterans Women CONSUMER ENGAGEMENT OUR RESEARCH HCH DIRECTORY Join the Council Make A Donation Get Assistance Contact Us Our Networks Respite Care Providers' NetworkNational Consumer Advisory BoardHCH Clinicians' Network Get Involved Join Our Organization Donate to Our Cause Subscribe to Receive our latest eNewsletter Success! Email Sign Up Now This website is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,625,741 with 20 percent financed with non-governmental sources. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov. Copyright © 2020 National Health Care for the Homeless Council, Inc. 604 Gallatin Ave., Suite 106 | Nashville, TN 37206 | (615) 226-2292 Disclaimers and Payment Policies FollowFollowFollow
