Homeless Services

Healing Hands: Crossing to Safety: Transgender Health and Homelessness

Persons who identify with a gender that differs from the sex assigned to them at birth are at high risk for social isolation, physical and emotional trauma, chemical dependency, infectious disease, and discrimination limiting their access to employment, housing, and health care. Homelessness compounds these risks. The following articles were written to enhance understanding of […]

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Healing Hands: Paso a Paso: Step-by-Step Toward Cultural Competence

Achieving cultural competence — the ability to communicate effectively across different linguistic and cultural traditions — is necessarily a gradual process. For clinicians, this requires close examination of health-related attitudes and beliefs — their clients’ and their own. The following articles suggest some steps that homeless health care providers can take to begin the journey.

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Hard to Reach: Rural Homelessness & Health Care

This document summarizes what is known about the causes of rural homelessness and how the experiences of unstably housed people living in rural areas differ from their urban counterparts. In addition, it describes health problems often experienced by rural homeless clients, highlights strategies that homeless service providers are using to meet the challenges these clients

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Healing Hands: Hard to Reach: Rural Homelessness & Health Care

This issue of Healing Hands examines obstacles to health care encountered by people who first experience homelessness in small communities and remote rural areas of the United States. The following articles briefly explain the causes of rural homelessness and how unstably housed people in rural areas differ from their urban counterparts. In addition, they highlight

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