Community Health Workers

Closing Plenary and Keynote

Our 2023 Conference embraces the theme “Toward Justice: Leading with Lived Experience.” Growing inequities and criminalization of homelessness are diminishing our society and threatening the lives of people experiencing homelessness. In 2023, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the National Consumer Advisory Board and the people with lived expertise of homelessness who have been […]

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Community Conversations: Xylazine in the Drug Supply

The Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians’ Network is pleased to host monthly Community Conversations for HCH providers (defined broadly). Forming around pressing issues affecting providers who serve people experiencing homelessness, Community Conversations are not webinars: they are discussions informed by real-life cases meant to improve wellbeing and knowledge among HCH providers through mutual support

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Bridges to Better Care: Integrating Data Systems to Streamline Care Coordination

Webinar Slides(PDF) Follow-Up Materials We know that understanding and addressing the Social Determinants of Health is essential to improving the health and quality of life for health center patients. On a community level, knowing what patient needs are and coordinating across systems is often easier said than done. Using data-driven approaches to identify existing needs,

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Building Sustainable Partnerships using the Community Centered Health Home Model

  Health centers have long been on the forefront of social determinants of health work, identifying innovative ways to provide person-centered, holistic care. Part of this has been understanding health centers alone cannot address the needs of their community and ensuring community health and improving the quality of life for the people we serve. Partnerships

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Clinicians’ Network Community Conversations: Working with Children and Families

  Launched in November 2021, the Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians’ Network hosts monthly Community Conversations. Forming around pressing issues affecting providers (defined broadly) who serve people experiencing homelessness, Community Conversations are not webinars: they are discussions informed by real-life cases meant to improve wellbeing of HCH providers through mutual support and problem-solving. Therefore,

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Supporting Peer Work During a Pandemic

Webinar Slides(PDF) Peers are an important component of supporting people experiencing homelessness in accessing health care and navigating complex support systems. During COVID, peers have taken on expanded roles with different types of engagement like telehealth. This webinar will feature peer staff and individuals who supervise peers to discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

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