Clinical Practice

LL – Evaluations in Health Care for the Homeless Programs

Encampment sweeps have become an all-too-common response to unsheltered homelessness in many communities. Unfortunately, these forcible removals are rarely accompanied by permanent housing and only serve to destabilize people, disconnect them from housing and services, and do nothing to solve homelessness. This Learning Lab will feature updates on the status of encampment sweeps (and other […]

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Housing is Health Care: Leveraging Medicaid Waivers to Strengthen Housing First Programs

This workshop — at the intersection of policy and practice — will explore the regulatory background enabling Medicaid “supportive housing” waivers, emerging data on housing and health, and the policies, politics, and partnerships that made possible a state’s six-year state pilot (which will be expanded statewide in FY2025). Outcomes from a five-year state study will

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Homelessness Is Not a Binary: The Continuum of Care When Homelessness is a Chronic Comorbidity

Clinicians rarely ask patients about their health history related to recovering from homelessness. Through case studies, lived experience, oncological and epigenetic research, and group discussions, this session will explore the importance of evaluating chronic health issues with homelessness as a comorbidity even after patients have regained housing stability and recovered from homelessness. The session will

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LL – Environmental Emergencies: We Can Help, The Lived Experience Perspective

While an environmental emergency can be traumatic for entire communities, people experiencing homelessness are particularly devastated and predominantly ignored by emergency response efforts. We know, however, that people experiencing homelessness (and people who formerly experienced homelessness) are extremely resilient and often support one another to find solutions that can inspire and influence the greater community

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Mortal Systemic Exclusion and the State of Homeless Mortality

This session will provide an overview on what we currently know about homeless mortality in the U.S. Currently, there are no national estimates of how many people die while experiencing homelessness. However, local jurisdictions and organizations have developed their own methods for determining homeless deaths. Speakers will describe these local efforts and opportunities for aligning

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Maximizing the Synergy of Health Care, Housing, and Value Based Care

This session will discuss the relationship between health and housing (or lack of housing), and share recent and current collaborations that demonstrate how quality supportive housing improves health, particularly for the chronically homeless. Panelists will share public housing financing models, support services in both metropolitan and rural communities, value-based care initiatives, and case studies. Presenters

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Engaging consumers in research to improve diabetes and wellness for people who have experienced homelessness

An evidence gap exists between the findings of decades of research to improve diabetes outcomes in low resource communities and persistently poor outcomes and premature mortality among people experiencing homelessness with diabetes compared to their stably housed peers. The Hennepin Healthcare team found that from 2017-2021, Minnesotans who used homeless services had a diabetes mortality

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Engaging consumers and clinicians in what works for substance use in people who are homeless

People experiencing homelessness die prematurely compared to their stably housed peers. Increasingly deaths are due to substance use. Yet national data confirms people experiencing homelessness have lower access to publicly funded substance use treatment programs and are less likely to receive medication-assisted therapy for opioid use disorder. This workshop will be led by facilitators with

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