Community of Practice Description
Understanding, Assessing, and Supporting Health Management Activities in Health Care for the Homeless Settings (apply by Sept. 5, 2025)
The National Health Care for the Homeless Council will host a four-session Community of Practice in September and October 2025 to support the integration of health management assessment and interventions into Health Care for the Homeless settings.
Health Management activities can be understood as any activities related to managing, maintaining, or developing health and wellness routines, for example self-administering medications, attending appointments, or communicating with health care team members.
Health management activities have a significant impact on health outcomes, and health care teams’ ability to understand, assess, and support health management are an integral part of care delivery. This Learning Collaborative will provide space for learners to engage around how staff and systems can support clients with health literacy, medication management, and communication and self-advocacy.
The Community of Practice will use NHCHC’s Health Management Assessment Guidelines and Health Management Toolkit to structure our work. We will hear from experts in the field as well as people with lived experience, and attendees will have the opportunity to create a health management plan around a focus of their choosing.
Schedule
The series will take place over four 90-minute sessions on consecutive Mondays starting in September 2025 (9/15, 9/22, 9/29, and 10/6) from 1-2:30 p.m. Central.
Learning Outcomes
Through engagement in this Community of Practice, attendees will gain:
- An ability to apply relevant adaptive practices and skill building techniques to work with clients on health management goals. experts on each topic and have opportunities to learn from peer organizations.
- A functional understanding of health management activities and be able to explain the concept of health management to another person
- An ability to thoughtfully approach the assessment of health management skills and apply appropriate tools and interview techniques to understand a person’s strengths and needs is specific areas of health management
- An understanding of a client’s experience of working on developing health management skills or using adaptive techniques to meet health management needs
Join Us — Apply by Sept. 5, 2025
Note: Learning Collaboratives for our federally funded work are now referred to as Communities of Practice.
