Clinical Practice

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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Building Partnerships To Enhance Equitable Children’s Healthcare: A Roadmap

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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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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As the World Burns: HCH Responses to the Impacts of Extreme Weather & Climate Change

Homeless services providers must increasingly organize, prepare, and respond to natural — and unnatural — disasters and emergencies which disproportionately affect unsheltered and sheltered persons experiencing homelessness and other vulnerable populations. This workshop will bring together four leading HCH programs directly impacted by extreme weather and climate change. Program leads will provide accounts and examples

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