Policy and Advocacy

Using Research to Advocate for Housing as a Better Solution

Our workshop team includes a housing researcher, advocate, and consumer who have collaborated on a rigorous evaluation of a supportive housing initiative for over 7 years. Recently we have worked together to provide evidence from the evaluation alongside consumer stories to other practitioners and advocates seeking to make a strong case for housing first as […]

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PCI: Consumer Engagement: How Consumer Leaders Advance Health Care Systems

Consumers make unique and invaluable contributions to governance and advocacy, and their voices are vital to the continuous advancement of high-quality and accessible health care. Consumers from various parts of the country and with a wide range of consumer engagement expertise, in partnership with NHCHC staff, will explore various elements of consumer engagement at HCH

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PCI: Building a Healthier Foundation for Justice: The BIPOC Collective Experience

Cook County Health Consumers make unique and invaluable contributions to governance and advocacy, and their voices are vital to the continuous advancement of high-quality and accessible health care. Consumers from various parts of the country and with a wide range of consumer engagement expertise, in partnership with NHCHC staff, will explore various elements of consumer

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Opening Plenary and Keynote

Our 2023 Conference embraces the theme “Toward Justice: Leading with Lived Experience.” Growing inequities and criminalization of homelessness are diminishing our society and threatening the lives of people experiencing homelessness. In 2023, we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the National Consumer Advisory Board and the people with lived expertise of homelessness who have been

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HCH Awards Ceremony 2023

  Congratulations to our 2023 award and scholarship winners: Monte Hank: 2023 Willie J. Mackey National Medical Respite Award Jackie Alba-Nguyen: 2023 Karen Rotondo Award for Outstanding Service Albert Miller: 2023 Ellen Dailey Consumer Advocate Award Brian Bickford: 2023 Philip W. Brickner National Leadership Award

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