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Fact sheet: “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act” A Summary for the HCH Community

On June 25, 2022, The President signed into law the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first major piece of gun legislation since the 1994 Gun Violence Prevention Act. While the law covers domestic violence offenders, expanded background checks, and red flag laws, it also increases funding for mental health services, school safety, crisis intervention programs, […]

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Congressional Budget Office:Economic Effects of Five Illustrative Single-Payer Health Care Systems: Working Paper 2022-02

This paper builds on previous studies published by the Congressional Budget Office about single-payer health care systems. It uses a general-equilibrium, overlapping-generations model to analyze the economic and distributional implications of five illustrative single-payer health care systems. The systems vary by their payment rates to providers, degree of cost sharing, and inclusion of benefits for

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External Link: Expanding Options for Health Care Within Homelessness Services: CoC Partnerships with Medical Respite Care Programs

A brief to improve health care quality and outcomes for people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 response by strengthening partnerships between homelessness assistance systems and medical respite care (MRC) providers. This brief features the views of both Continuums of Care (CoCs) and MRC staff about how to best integrate operations at the systemic level, as

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External Link: One Community’s Collaborative Approach: A Spotlight on Yakima, Washington

Some communities have made tremendous strides to effectively align homelessness services and MRC programs. This spotlight interview includes the housing, CoC, and MRC leaders in Yakima, Washington. They describe their MRC program, how it fits within their community’s response to homelessness, their collective approaches to racial equity, and specific ways they have strengthened their system

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Fact Sheet: Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) for Opioid Use Disorder for People Experiencing Homelessness

Overdose deaths in the United States have reached epidemic levels, with over 100,000 deaths reported between April 2020 and April 2021. Approximately 75% of those deaths were caused by opioids (driven by the synthetic opioid fentanyl), which makes preventing opioid-related overdoses and expanding access to opioid-use disorder (OUD) treatment specifically important. People experiencing homelessness are

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