Mobilizer: While Awaiting SCOTUS, Health Care Guidance and Funding Are Issued
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Policy and Advocacy
HCH Advocate Statement of Principles
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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
Understanding and Applying Principles of Language Justice
Speakers: Tanagra Melgarejo, National Learning and Engagement Strategist, National Harm Reduction Coalition; Kate Gleason-Bachman, Clinical and QI Nurse Manager, National Health Care for the Homeless Council; Katie League, Behavioral Health Manager, National Health Care for the Homeless Council Session Materials: 75 min_NHCH 2024 HR and Language Justice.pptx
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Countering Nonprofit Exploitation: A Call for Client Compensation
Client storytelling is a staple of the nonprofit business model, everpresent in board and committee proceedings, research, advocacy and policy, communications, and fundraising. Nonprofit organizations benefit significantly from the client experience and their ability to capture an audience. The critical question is how equitable is this exchange between the client and the organization? This presentation
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Cooling Centers for Persons Experiencing Homelessness: Making the case for climate justice
Climate change has disproportionally affected the most vulnerable in our community. Unsheltered persons experiencing homelessness are at higher risk for the devastating and often life-threatening effects of extreme heat. Cooling centers at locations where individuals congregate provide a means of mitigating the extreme effects of heat, particularly in an environment where the affordable housing crisis
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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Community and Advocacy in Medical Respite Care
Speakers: Jillian Olmsted, Executive Director, The INN Between; Lorie Okada, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; Anna Pruitt, Faculty Affiliate, Research Associate, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Session Materials: Community and Advocacy in Medical Respite Care (N)_1.pdf NHCHC Conference Lived Experience Resident Advocates.pdf
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