Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Coronavirus Disease 2019: landing page with key information and updates
• CDC: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Summary
• CDC: Interim Guidance for Homeless Service Providers to Plan and Respond to COVID-19
• CDC: FAQ on Homelessness
• CDC: Information on People Experiencing Homelessness
• CDC: About Coronavirus Disease 2019: symptoms, prevention, and treatment
• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): General Information and Resources
• HUD: Infectious Disease Preparedness Webinar with HUD, CDC, NHCHC, and Seattle-King County
• HUD: Infectious Disease Toolkit for CoCs
• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA): Coronavirus (COVID-19) Frequently Asked Questions
• HRSA: Emergency Preparedness and Recovery Resources for Health Centers webpage
• Department of Health and Human Services: Coronavirus Resources (Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response)

Guidance from National Organizations

• COVID-19 Resource Guide (Homebase)
• Corporation for Supportive Housing: Resources for care coordination and supportive housing
• Beyond the Food Pantry: COVID-19 Response for Students Who are Homeless or With Experience in Foster Care (SchoolHouse Connection)

Guidance from Local Programs

• Our Washington colleagues at Seattle-King County’s Health Care for the Homeless network are at the epicenter of the US outbreak and are rapidly and continuously producing guidance for service providers. Follow their webpage closely for regularly updated resources, such as a COVID-19 Preparedness Planning Guide, Interim Guidance on COVID-19 for Homeless Service Providers, Response Assessments, Sanitation and Hygiene Guides, and more.
• Coronavirus FAQ (Valley Homeless Healthcare Program of Santa Clara County, CA)
• Health Care for the Homeless COVID-related guidance (Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless, Alameda County, CA)
• COVID-19 and Homelessness Resource Guide (Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness, Hartford, CA)
• Coronavirus FAQ (Valley Homeless Healthcare Program of Santa Clara County, CA)
• Related guidance and other documents (Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority)
• All COVID-related policies: scroll down for homeless- and health-related guidance (Western New York Law Center, New York)

Guidance from Federal Agencies

• People Experiencing Homelessness: numerous information flyers aimed at consumers (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Information for people experiencing homelessness (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

 Guidance from National Organizations

• FAQ from National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
• COVID-19 Guidance for People Who Use Substances (Yale Program in Addiction Medicine)
• COVID-19 Guidance for People Engaged in Substance Use Treatment (Yale Program in Addiction Medicine)

Guidance from Local Programs

• Information for people who are homeless and use drugs (courtesy of the Homeless Youth Alliance in San Francisco)
• “How do you wash your hands when…?” (from Western Regional Advocacy Project)

Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Guidance for Alternate Care Sites and Isolation Sites

Guidance from Local Programs

• Guidance: Referring Persons Experiencing Homelessness with COVID-19 Symptoms But Not Yet Diagnosed with COVID-19 Disease to Isolation in Individual Hotel Rooms (Heartland Alliance Health in Chicago, IL)
• Operation Comfort: Alameda County Emergency Hotel Shelter Handbook (Alameda County, CA)

Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Cleaning and Disinfection Recommendations

Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Department of Housing and Urban Development: Non-Congregate Approaches to Sheltering for COVID-19 Homeless Response

Guidance from Local Programs

• Columbus, OH: Guidelines for establishing hotel/motels as isolation, quarantine, respite or emergency shelters (Coalition on Homeless and Housing in Ohio)

Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration (SAMHSA): Updated FAQs for Opioid Use Disorder Prescribing and Dispensing in the COVID-19 Emergency
• SAMHSA: Buprenorphine and Telemedicine COVID-19 Guidance

Guidance from National Organizations

• Harm Reduction Coalition: Guidance for People Who Use Drugs and Harm Reduction Programs
• Yale Program in Addiction Medicine: COVID-19 Guidance for Clinicians & Opioid Treatment Programs

Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): Preventing and Managing the Spread of Infectious Disease for People Experiencing Homelessness
• HUD: Preventing and Managing the Spread of Infectious Disease within Shelters
• HUD: Specific Considerations for Public Health Authorities to Limit Infection Risk Among People Experiencing Homelessness
• HUD: Questions to Assist CoCs and Public Health Authorities to Limit the Spread of Infectious Disease in Homeless Programs
• HUD: Infectious Disease Toolkit for CoCs

Guidance from Local Programs

• Interim Guidance: Preventing Spread of COVID-19 among Persons Experiencing Homelessness (San Francisco Department of Public Health, CA)

Federal Agencies

• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): COVID-19: Shelter Management During an Infectious Disease Outbreak (also en Español)
• HUD: Preventing and Managing the Spread of Infectious Disease within Shelters

Local Programs

• Coronavirus guidance for congregate living facilities (Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, CA)

Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Screening Clients for Respiratory Infection Symptoms at Entry to Homeless Shelters
• Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD): COVID-19: How to Screen Clients Upon Entry to Shelter or Opportunity Centers
• CDC: Evaluating and Reporting Persons Under Investigation (PUI)

Guidance from Local Programs

• COVID Homeless Screener with Temperature and Screening Supply List (Heartland Alliance Health)
• Patient attestation forms: English and Spanish (Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA)
• Guidance: Referring Persons Experiencing Homelessness with COVID-19 Positive Test Results (Heartland Alliance Health, Chicago, IL)
• Guidance on the Discharge of High-Risk COVID-19 Persons Under Investigation (PUI) or Confirmed Cases (Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, IL)
• COVID-19 Client Triage Tool: Atlanta CoC Example (Atlanta, GA)

Guidance from Local Programs

• Edward Thomas House Medical Respite COVID-19 (C-19) Protocol (Seattle & King County, WA)
• Edward Thomas House: Medical Respite Webinar and Resources (Seattle & King County, WA)
• COVID-19 Respite Facility for People Experiencing Homelessness (City of New Haven, CT)

Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): PPE: Recommendation Regarding the Use of Cloth Face Coverings
• CDC: Strategies for Optimizing the Supply of PPE

Guidance from National Organizations

• The DIY Face Shield Project: Improvising PPE

Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Preventing and Managing the Spread of Infectious Disease within Encampments
• CDC: COVID-19: Essential Services for Encampments During an Infectious Disease Outbreak
• CDC: Interim Guidance for Responding to COVID-19 among People Experiencing Unsheltered Homelessness

Guidance from National Organizations

• Street Medicine Institute: Street Medicine Practice During the COVID-19 Epidemic

Guidance from Local Programs

• Pandemic Handbook for Outreach Workers Visiting Encampments (Neighborhood Health, Nashville, TN)

Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS): Families First Coronavirus Response Act – Increased FMAP FAQs
• CMS: Individual State Medicaid 1135 Waivers
• Department of Housing and Urban Development: Regulatory Waivers for CoC, ESG, and HOPWA Programs

• Epidemiology of COVID-19 among People Experiencing Homelessness: Early Evidence from Boston (Research by Travis P. Baggett, Elizabeth Lewis, and Jessie M. Gaeta)
• COVID-19 Outbreak at a Large Homeless Shelter in Boston: Implications for Universal Testing (Research by Travis P. Baggett, Harrison Keyes, Nora Sporn, and Jessie M. Gaeta)
• Estimated Emergency and Observational/Quarantine Capacity Need for the US Homeless Population Related to COVID-19 Exposure by County; Projected Hospitalizations, Intensive Care Units and Mortality (Research by Dennis Culhane, Dan Treglia, Ken Steif, Randall Kuhn, & Thomas Byrne – March 25, 2020)
• Community-level COVID-19 Homelessness Planning & Response Dashboard (Dashboard based on research report)
• Leung, C. et al. (2008). Homelessness and the Response to Emerging Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Lessons from SARS. Journal of Urban Health 85 (3): 402-410.

• CSH blog by Pascale Leon
• An Equitable Systems Transformation Framework for COVID-19 from National Innovation Services
• COVID-19 – Racial Equity & Social Justice Resources from Racial Equity Tools
• Central City Concern internal guidance
• Oregon health authority recommendations
• An Invitation to Center Race in Government Responses to COVID-19 by Living Cities
• CDC Statement on Reducing Stigma
• Strategies for racial equity in COVID-19 response

• Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook from the Wellness Society
• Mindfulness in the Time of Crisis podcast from C4 Innovations

 Guidance from Federal Agencies

• Health Resources and Services Administration: Emergency Preparedness and Recovery Resources for Health Centers
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Emerging Infectious Diseases

Guidance from National Organizations

• National Health Care for the Homeless Council (NHCHC): Cover Your Cough Flyer (English)
• NHCHC: Cover Your Cough Flyer (Spanish)
• NHCHC: Did You Wash Your Hands Flyer
• NHCHC: National HCH Council Emergency Preparedness Resources

• Pandemic Influenza Guidance for Homeless Shelters & Homeless Service Providers (2009) | The National Health Care for the Homeless Council developed this practical manual for homeless shelters and other service providers as they plan for and respond to the special needs of people without homes during the influenza season. Different facilities will need to tailor the guidance to meet the specific needs of their staff and the people they serve. The manual consolidates a number of materials developed by credible authorities.
• CDC Pandemic Influenza Plan Template for Primary Care Provider Offices
• Influenza chapter from The Health Care of Homeless Persons