This guide provides a background on health and housing disparities and explores how health and housing partnerships can work to address health inequity in their community. Download Research (Link)
Addressing Health Equity through Health and Housing Partnerships Read More >>
This publication highlights the ways in which community health centers can help meet the health and social needs of individuals exiting correctional institutions. Download Research (PDF)
Stopping the Revolving Door: How Health Centers Can Serve Justice-Involved Populations Read More >>
Preventing and ending homelessness among youth is currently a national focus and local priority in communities across the country.The US Interagency Council of Homelessness established the goal of endingYouth Homelessness by 2020 in Opening Doors, the federal strategic plan to prevent and end homelessness. Health centers play a key role, both in connecting this population
Promising Practices for Health Centers: Serving Youth Experiencing Homelessness Read More >>
This systematic review by The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) describes the economic benefit of supportive housing. Download Research (PDF)
Health Equity: Permanent Supportive Housing with Housing First (Housing First Programs Read More >>
f 50 is growing. Not only are those on the streets getting older, but their health is deteriorating at rates much faster than the general population. Pressing chronic health and geriatric conditions exacerbate the housing crisis for thousands of unsheltered individuals over 50.1 Supportive housing, a proven intervention for meeting the unique and complex needs
Health & Housing Partnerships for Older Adults: Aging in Place in Supportive Housing Read More >>
With the growing appreciation of housing as a social determinant of health, health center and housing partnerships are on the rise nationally. Recognizing the layers to developing a health and housing partnership, this Literature Review and Resource Bank is intended to provide background and data resources that can be used in grant applications or in
Health center program grantees know the catchphrase, “housing is a social determinant of health,” and many have begun to try to assess and address patients’ housing challenges in order to improve health outcomes. A critical tool available to health centers lies ‘outside the four walls’ of the health center in local homeless coordinated entry systems1,
Health Centers and Coordinated Entry: How and Why to Engage with Local Homeless Systems Read More >>
Long-term services and supports are a critical resource for individuals who have an intellectual, developmental, behavioral, and/or physical disability.1 Historically in many communities, long- term services and supports were primarily provided in institutional settings such as nursing homes. However with new advances in medical technology and through the Supreme Court Olmstead Decision2 to support independent
