Healthcare and Homelessness Partnerships

Building a Data Bridge Between the Healthcare and Homeless Response System

This workshop session will explain a new innovative and promising practice created to improve services to the homeless. This approach is relevant to a very real, current issue. Homeless service providers do not have a clear picture of their client’s health history e.g. visits to the emergency room or to a mental health provider. Health […]

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Putting “Community” into a Community Clinic

This workshop will share the administrative, clinical, and consumer perspectives of launching and operating a Community Clinic at the Organization. The Organization is a nonprofit that ends isolation and homelessness through radical hospitality. It’s an inclusive space for anyone experiencing homelessness to feel welcome, feel safe, and receive services. By partnering with the Clinic and

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Building Service Capacity Through a Model Workforce Development Program

In late 2022, a managed care plan began a partnership with a community-based organization that had an impressive history of partnering with local employment partners to effectively meet staffing needs, while also providing opportunities for individuals with lived experience and other barriers to integrate into the workplace. Together they sought to address several regional concerns:

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Points of Care: Creating an Emergency Department That Effectively Serves the Unhoused

People experiencing housing instability are at higher risk for emergency department admissions, poor health outcomes and shorter life-expectancies. In September 2022, a major hospital in the mid-South implemented a two-question housing screening tool within the Emergency Department as a standard part of registration and triage. When the patient is identified as housing unstable, a social

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Building Sustainable Partnerships using the Community Centered Health Home Model

  Health centers have long been on the forefront of social determinants of health work, identifying innovative ways to provide person-centered, holistic care. Part of this has been understanding health centers alone cannot address the needs of their community and ensuring community health and improving the quality of life for the people we serve. Partnerships

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Homeless in the ED: Partnerships to Improve Care for People without Homes in Emergency Departments

Wednesdays, March 16, 23, and 30 – 2022   Go to Downloadable Webinar Files   People experiencing homelessness are often managing significant complex health issues but are unable to access needed primary care or must prioritize immediate survival over health management. The result is that health conditions are often untreated until it’s an emergency. Emergency

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