Presented by National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health This online tool consists of eight modules offering guidance on providing trauma-informed care to children, youth, and families through video interviews, issue briefs, and resource lists. Download Research (PDF)
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Presented by Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia This six-week program uses a train-the-trainer model, which combines attachment and trauma theory to train clinicians to help parents address their children’s developmental, emotional, and cultural needs while experiencing the stressors of homelessness. Visit Website (Link)
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Presented by National Child Traumatic Stress Network and SAMHSA funded Free online searchable database that provides clinicians and researchers with in-depth information to enable them to choose the best instrument to assess children and adolescents who have experienced trauma. The Measures Review Database fills an important gap in the field. Its purpose is to promote
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Given that unsheltered women experience both increased rates of cervical cancer compared to the general population and barriers to health care, the street medicine team at John Peter Smith Hospital is exploring the idea of performing pap smears, STD screenings, and birth control distribution in patients’ encampments or motel rooms. Through a survey, the team
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Social justice and health care are inextricably linked, and an important aspect of social justice is the ability to have fair access to health care and to be taken seriously within the healthcare and social services systems. Health care is not equitable if it is not accessible, and there are still immense gaps in terms
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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
Housing instability, employment, and other social determinants of health intersect to create barriers to achieving health equity for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) people. This session will address the needs of and considerations for TGD patients experiencing homelessness. Speakers: Alex Keuroghlian, MD, MPH, Director of the Division of Education and Training, Fenway Institute Session Materials:
Accurate estimates of youth experiencing homelessness are unknown. Capture-recapture can estimate the unknown population of people experiencing homelessness — those not accessing services. This session will explore a multi-sample, capture-recapture analysis using three citywide datasets linked at the individual-level to estimate the prevalence of homelessness in Denver among individuals ages 14-17 from 2017-2021. Those estimates
