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Creating Accessible Printed Resources: Tips and Tools

Navigating homeless and housing services often requires a lot of reading and paperwork. However, people experiencing homelessness may present with lower reading levels or disabilities that impact their ability to easily read and comprehend written information. Homeless services organizations should ensure their written materials are accessible and readable to those using their services. This guide […]

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Gender-Affirming Care and Homelessness: An Annotated Bibliography

Gender diversity is a social determinant of both health and housing. Trans homelessness has increased 113% since 20163 and trans individuals disproportionately experience unsheltered homelessness, further exacerbating health inequities that exist among this population. As such, gender-affirming care is an important component of Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) services. This annotated bibliography provides a

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Issue Brief: Impact of Encampment Sweeps on People Experiencing Homelessness

Sweeps do not end homelessness. Grassroots leaders and direct service providers understand that encampment sweeps cause four general problems: Sweeps damage health, well-being, and connections to care Sweeps compromise personal safety and civic trust Sweeps undermine paths to housing and financial stability Sweeps create unnecessary costs for local communities Each of these problems presents significant

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Intimate Partner Violence, Homelessness and Behavioral Health: A Toolkit for Health Center and Community Partners

In recognition of HCADV Day, Health Partners on IPV + Exploitation and National Health Care for the Homeless Council are excited to release a new toolkit, Intimate Partner Violence, Homelessness, and Behavioral Health, developed for Health Care for the Homeless Health Centers and their community-based partners. The toolkit addresses the intersections of intimate partner violence,

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Bringing the Clinic to the Patient: Health Tech Navigators Link Unhoused Patients With Online Therapists in LA County

The video was created by Beth Freeman and team for the Center for Care Innovations and Kaiser Permanente, which funded the telehealth project in San Fernando Valley as part of CCI’s Virtual Care Innovation Network, a virtual health collaboration founded by Kaiser Permanente. Download Research (Link)

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Virtual Care Innovation Network

This program is funded by Kaiser Permanente and designed in partnership with CCI, National Health Care for the Homeless Council, the primary care associations in each of the states in which Kaiser Permanente provides care, and regional associations in California. Download Research (Link)

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