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LL – Environmental Emergencies: We Can Help, The Lived Experience Perspective

While an environmental emergency can be traumatic for entire communities, people experiencing homelessness are particularly devastated and predominantly ignored by emergency response efforts. We know, however, that people experiencing homelessness (and people who formerly experienced homelessness) are extremely resilient and often support one another to find solutions that can inspire and influence the greater community […]

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Maximizing the Synergy of Health Care, Housing, and Value Based Care

This session will discuss the relationship between health and housing (or lack of housing), and share recent and current collaborations that demonstrate how quality supportive housing improves health, particularly for the chronically homeless. Panelists will share public housing financing models, support services in both metropolitan and rural communities, value-based care initiatives, and case studies. Presenters

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Meeting People Where They Are: Interprofessional Collaboration in the Community to Support PEH

This session will explore leveraging interprofessional collaboration to reduce healthcare disparities in people experiencing homelessness through innovative care delivery models. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, at a large urban academic medical center, health care for people experiencing homelessness was disparate and siloed. The pandemic necessitated a level of collaboration across professions and organizations that was

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Empowering Skin and Soft Tissue Care in Homeless Communities

The “Skin and Soft Tissue Care” (SSTC) program provides medical education and empowerment directly to PEH and support workers regarding infections, wounds, and other skin conditions. Over three years, SSTC has led more than 100 workshops in camps, safe rest villages and shelters. Additionally, they are educating and supporting 12 individual PEH as healthcare resources

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Integrated Care Permanent Supportive Housing: A Promising Alternative for Chronic Homelessness

Homelessness is a complex problem that affects individuals, communities, and healthcare systems. This session will cover an integrative care program designed for those experiencing chronic homelessness, which is characterized by long-term or repeated episodes of homelessness associated with complex medical conditions. Providing stable housing and support services effectively addresses chronic homelessness and improves health outcomes.

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Primary Care & Restorative Justice: 10 years of health care delivery in supportive housing

Janian Medical Care’s Primary Care department turns 10 years old in 2024. The Janian team has learned that the principles of Restorative Justice offer a helpful lens through which primary care providers may view their work. As Janian Medical’s delivery of health care in permanent supportive housing reaches its 10th year, this presentation will explore

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Cluster Care: Providing Support to High-Needs Clients in Transitional Housing

The organization recognized a need to provide specialized support to high-needs residents in NYC Safe Haven transitional housing for individuals who previously experienced street homelessness. Due to systemic constraints that do not allow for long-term Home Health Aide Services onsite, a needs assessment was conducted to learn the scale and scope of the need among

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Unhoused Youth in LA: A Perspective on Providing Health Care from Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

Youth experiencing homelessness is a multi-faceted problem that combines the complications of being unhoused along with the complexities of adolescence. The Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles has been providing health care to this population for more than 40 years in the Los Angeles area. This presentation will share how staff utilizes principles of harm reduction

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