Considerations for Tailored Diabetes Self-Management Education and Meal Planning for People Experiencing Homelessness

6/29/23 Webinar: Considerations for Tailored Diabetes Self-Management Education & Meal Planning for PEH

Please join the National Health Care for the Homeless Council on June 29, 2023, at 11 a.m. CDT to learn practical and feasible approaches to diabetes management for people experiencing homelessness (PEH). We know diabetes disproportionately affects populations experiencing homelessness. Unhoused individuals are much more at risk for additional complications, comorbidities, and food insecurity. We’ll […]

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Three Kinds of Murder…

By Barbara DiPietro, PhD, Senior Director of Policy I can’t stop thinking about Jordan Neely—who was killed by another rider on a New York City subway car in the middle of the day on May 1 in full view of others. One witness joined in the killing, while others stood by and filmed it. No

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Measure Your Org’s Consumer Engagement Efforts with Our New Assessment Tool

Is your health center effectively engaging consumers? We have a new tool to help you better understand just that! Patient perspective contributes to the mission to bring equitable, high quality health care to people with lived experience of homelessness, so it’s important to work toward establishing best practices for consumer engagement and leadership. The National

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INTERSECTIONS of Homelessness and Human Trafficking

New Issue of Healing Hands Focuses on Human Trafficking

There are many connection points between homelessness and human trafficking, and it’s important that clinicians and care providers who work with people experiencing homelessness have access to accurate and thorough information about these connection points. However, many people are exposed to inaccurate information about the nature of human trafficking in the U.S. and globally. Not

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Meet the HCH2023 Award and Scholarship Recipients

Congratulations to this year’s scholarship and award recipients, who we honored during the 2023 Annual National Health Care for the Homeless Conference & Policy Symposium in Baltimore! Watch the full awards luncheon — including speeches by those honored — here. Philip W. Brickner National Leadership Award BRIAN BICKFORD Brian Bickford is a licensed mental health

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Brian Bickford: 2023 Philip W. Brickner National Leadership Award

Philip W. Brickner, MD (1928-2014), established Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) as a national model of care for severely disadvantaged persons. In 1983, Dr. Brickner was chosen to direct the HCH Demonstration Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), the Pew Charitable Trust, and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. With his team from

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Albert Miller: 2023 Ellen Dailey Consumer Advocate Award

The National Consumer Advisory Board’s (NCAB) annual Ellen Dailey Consumer Advocate Award honors the spirit and strength of founding member Ellen Dailey, a passionate champion of consumer voices in the provision of homeless services who was instrumental in starting the Consumer Advisory Board at the Boston HCH Program in Boston, MA, and NCAB. Albert Miller

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