Webinars
The National Health Care for the Homeless Council offers free webinars on a variety of topics of interest to the homeless health care field.
Upcoming Webinars
Featured Webinars:
Learning Collaborative: Addressing Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Conditions Among People Who Live in Encampments | Jan 11 | 1 – 2:30 pm
All events are listed in Central Time.
3rd of 4 sessions – Join the National Health Care for the Homeless Council for a 4-part interactive learning collaborative focused on the intersection of substance use, mental health conditions, and unsheltered homelessness.….
Webinar Schedule:
Thursday, April 20 – 2023
2:00 pm – Community-Centered Approaches to Racial and Social Justice: Change from the Outside In With CCHH
Wednesday, April 5 – 2023
11:30 am – Hepatitis C Virtual Symposium: Primary Care-Based Treatment for People Experiencing Homelessness
Thursday, March 30 – 2023
2:00 pm – Community-Centered Approaches to Healthcare: Introduction to the Community-Centered Health Home Model
Wednesday, March 8 – 2023
1:00 pm – Coffee Chat: Respite care Providers Network (RCPN)
Wednesday, February 24 – 2023
12:00 pm – We are Not a Monolith: Identifying the Power Within Storytelling Webinar
Wednesday, February 22 – 2023
1:00 pm – RCPN: All Members Meeting
Monday, January 30 – 2023
1:00 pm – Community Conversation: Permission to Say No
Wednesday, December 21 – 2022
Tuesday, December 20 – 2022
11:00 am – Coffee Chat: Updated CDC COVID-19 Guidance & Winter Planning for the HCH Community
Wednesday, December 14 – 2022
1:00 pm – Learning Collaborative: Addressing Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Conditions Among People Who Live in Encampments
Wednesday, December 7 – 2022
1:00 pm – Community Conversations: Syringe Access and Safer Consumption
Tuesday, December 6 – 2022
12:00 pm – Understanding and Preventing Homeless Mortality
Thursday, November 17 – 2022
12:00 pm – Lunch and Learn…on the go! A Series for Mobile Health Care Providers
Thursday, November 10 – 2022
12:00 pm – Learning Collaborative: Community Food Mapping
12:00 pm – Lunch and Learn…on the go! A Series for Mobile Health Care Providers
Wednesday, November 9 – 2022
1:00 pm – Learning Collaborative: Addressing Co-Occurring Substance Use and Mental Health Conditions Among People Who Live in Encampments
Thursday November 3 – 2022
12:00 pm – Lunch and Learn…on the go! A Series for Mobile Health Care Providers
Wednesday, November 2 – 2022
1:00 pm – Promising Practices: Providing Behavioral Health Care in a Medical Respite Setting
2:00 pm – What Health Centers Can Do to Advance the Vital Role for Community Health Workers and Peers in SDOH Screening for Positive Health Outcomes
Thursday, October 27 – 2022
12:00 pm – Learning Collaborative: Community Food Mapping
12:00 pm – Lunch and Learn…on the go! A Series for Mobile Health Care Providers
Wednesday, October 26 – 2022
2:00 pm – Community Conversations: Xylazine in the Drug Supply
Tuesday, October 25 – 2022
2:00 pm – Addressing Cognition in Medical Respite
Thursday, October 20 – 2022
12:00 pm – October Learning Series: Billing for Service and the Mobile Unit
Tuesday, October 18 – 2022
2:00 pm – Addressing Cognition in Medical Respite
Thursday, October 13 – 2022
12:00 pm – Learning Collaborative: Community Food Mapping
12:00 pm – October Learning Series: Billing for Service and the Mobile Unit
Wednesday, October 12 – 2022
2:00 pm – Intimate Partner Violence, Homelessness and Behavioral Health: A Toolkit for Health Center and Community Partners — Toolkit
Thursday, September 29 – 2022
12:00 pm – Learning Collaborative: Community Food Mapping
Friday, September 23 – 2022
1:00 pm – BIPOC Wellness Part One: Pathways to Peace – An Introduction to Workplace (and Other Wellness) Concepts
Thursday, September 15 – 2022
12:00 pm – September Learning Series: Addressing Safety and Security in Mobile Health Care
Thursday, September 8 – 2022
12:00 pm – September Learning Series: Addressing Safety and Security in Mobile Health Care
12:30 pm – RCPN Coffee Chat: Medical Respite and Addressing Monkeypox
Wednesday, August 31 – 2022
1:00 pm – Clinicians’ Network Community Conversations: Harm Reduction Strategies for the Fentanyl Crisis
Wednesday, July 27 – 2022
1:00 pm – Trauma-Informed Environment In Medical Respite
Thursday, July 21 – 2022
2:00 pm – Clinicians’ Network Community Conversations: Clinicians’ Interactions with Law Enforcement
Tuesday, June 28 – 2022
Consumer Leadership Summit 2022
Monday, June 27 – 2022
Consumer Leadership Summit 2022
Wednesday, June 8 – 2022
1:00 pm – Bridges to Better Care: Integrating Data Systems to Streamline Care Coordination
1:00 pm – NATIONAL HOMELESS PERSONS’ MEMORIAL DAY
Wed, December 21, 2:30pm – 4:00pm
The first day of winter. The longest night of the year. People in your community will die without a home this year. While we understand the importance of every life, we recognize the reality of conditions that individuals and families experiencing homelessness face. National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day is the day to remember those who have died during the year while unhoused, unsheltered, living in shelters, transitional housing, or other uninhabitable places and spaces, and without a place to call home.
Over the past years, hundreds of cities representing more than thirty States and the District of Columbia have participated in the National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day. Let’s make this a year of increased awareness and advocacy by organizing in our communities to memorialize the lives that have been lost across the nation as we work throughout the coming year to end homelessness and the need for such a day.
Popular Webinars
Being Trauma Informed and Its Role in Ending Homelessness
Foundations of LGBTQIA+ Health Care and Homelessness: Terminology, Concepts, and Best Practices
Promoting Safety in Street Outreach
Webinar: Homeless Outreach: A Pre-treatment Guide
Archived Webinars
Adapted Clinical Guidelines
- Adapted Anticipatory Guidance for Infants and Toddlers
- The 2019 Revised Adapted Clinical Guidelines: Medication Management for Patients Experiencing Homelessness Diagnosed with Diabetes
Adverse Childhood Experiences
Assessment and Intake
- Ask & Code: Documenting Homelessness Throughout the Health Care System
- HRSA Needs Assessment for HCH Grantees
Competency
EHRs and UDS
- HCH Benchmarking: 2016 Uniform Data System Summary and UDS Mapper Review
- We All Do IT: UDS and Reporting Software
- Ready, Set, Go: The Road to Meaningful Use of EHRs
- HCH Staffing and Services: National Trends and Implications for Growth
- Moving Forward with Meaningful Use in the HCH Setting
- A Structural Framework for Meaningful Use of EHR in the HCH Setting
Palliative Care
Patient-Centered Medical Home
- Patient-Centered Medical Home: Introduction to the Concept
- Steps to NCQA Recognition for Patient-Centered Medical Home
- Patient-Centered Medical Home: A Case Study on Achieving Level 3
- Patient-Centered Medical Home: Case Study Featuring Mary Howard Health Center
- Patient-Centered Medical Home: Case Study Featuring Yakima Neighborhood Health Services
- Optimizing Health Care for LGBT People in Patient-Centered Medical Homes
- Leading Transformation to a Patient-Centered Medical Home
- Patient-Centered Medical Home Updates for Safety Net Providers
Preventive Care
Quality Improvement/Quality Assurance
- Laying the Groundwork for Meeting QI/QA Program Expectations in an HCH Setting: Lessons Learned in San Francisco
- Laying the Groundwork for Meeting QI/QA Requirements: Action Steps Taken
Reproductive Health
Social Determinants of Health
Street Medicine
- Administrative Concerns in Street Medicine: Assuring Quality without Sacrificing Mission
- Street Medicine for Gravely Mentally Ill Patients: Strategies for Establishing Conservatorship
Telehealth
- Building the Plane While Flying It: Health Care for the Homeless, Telehealth and COVID-19, Part II
- Building the Plane While Flying It: Health Care for the Homeless, Telehealth, and COVID-19
- Using Telehealth Services for Patient Care
- Clinicians’ Coffee Chat: Using Telehealth to Manage Diabetes
- Tele-Behavioral Health in Homeless Health Care: Why Is It Hard, and What Can We Do About It?
- It Begins with a Connection: Communicating with Patients Who Are Homeless through Community Voice Mail
Other Topics
- Preparing for HRSA Operational Site Visits
- The Humanism Pocket Tool: Finding the Joy in Treating Challenging Patients
- Tips and Techniques to Support Residents Adapting to the Smoking Ban in Public Housing
- Mitigating Risk: Seven Important Things You Need to Know about Volunteer Background Checks
- HCH Quality Leaders: Key Practices and Improvement Strategies
- Self-Care Basics in HCH Settings
- Public Entity HCH Grantees and Co-Applicant Arrangements
Chronic Pain
Comorbidities
Coronavirus
- Increasing Access to COVID-19 Vaccines Among Homeless Populations: Successful Partnerships Series
- Discussion Forum: Using Health Center Funding from the American Rescue Plan Act to Improve Care for People Experiencing Homelessness
- Homeless Mortality and the Impact of COVID-19
- COVID-19 & the HCH Community: Vaccines for Clients and Staff
- Winter is Coming: Flu & COVID-19
- COVID-19 Coffee Chat: How to Be a Single-Payer Advocate During a Pandemic
- Building the Plane While Flying It: Health Care for the Homeless, Telehealth and COVID-19, Part II
- Building the Plane While Flying It: Health Care for the Homeless, Telehealth, and COVID-19
- Testing for COVID-19 in Homeless Shelters & Encampments: Discussing CDC’s New Health Department Guidance & NHCHC’s Newest Issue Brief
- Consumer Experiences in Isolation and Quarantine
- Compounding Oppression: Antiracism in COVID-19 Response
- Building Resilience for Front Line Providers: What Does “Self-Care” Really Look Like?
- Organizational Strategies for Supporting the Mental Health & Wellness of Providers & Staff
- Addressing the Pandemic in Rural Communities
- Continuity of Care for Residents in Permanent Supportive Housing
- Using Telehealth Services for Patient Care
- Structuring I/Q Sites for People Experiencing Homelessness: Examples and Guidance from Alameda County’s Project Roomkey
- Testing for COVID-19 in Homeless Shelters
- Safer at Home? COVID-19 and Domestic Violence
- Avoiding Civil Detention: Responding to Clients Who Violate Isolation Orders
- Supporting Clients’ Mental Health During Isolation and Quarantine
- The Role of Medical Respite Care in COVID-19 Response
- Reaching Unsheltered People
- Coronavirus and the HCH Community: Status Updates, Available Guidance, Local Preparations, and Outstanding Issues
- Clinical Pandemic Response for People Without Homes—Insights from Seattle & King County
Diabetes
- How to Conduct a Root Cause Analysis for Diabetes Prevention
- Food Insecurity and Trauma-Informed Approaches to BMI and Diabetes Care While Experiencing Homelessness
- Clinicians’ Coffee Chat: Diabetes and Nutrition
- Clinicians’ Coffee Chat: Diabetes and Co-occurring Disorders
- Clinicians’ Coffee Chat: Community Health Workers in Diabetes Care and Prevention
- Clinicians’ Coffee Chat: Using Telehealth to Manage Diabetes
- The 2019 Revised Adapted Clinical Guidelines: Medication Management for Patients Experiencing Homelessness Diagnosed with Diabetes
- Nutrition and Diabetes: How Medical Nutrition Therapy Can Improve Diabetes Management
- Oral Health and Diabetes for Patients Experiencing Homelessness
- The Audacity to Be Bold: Addressing Diabetes in the Homeless Population
- Nutrition and Diabetes: Special Considerations for Clients who Are Unstably Housed
Hepatitis
- Hepatitis A Vaccination for People Experiencing Homelessness (2020)
- Hepatitis A Vaccination Among Persons Experiencing Homelessness (2019)
HIV/AIDS
- A Year On: Revisiting PrEP for HIV Prevention
- Implementing HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in a Homeless Primary Care Clinic
- Integrating Routine HIV Testing into Care: Strategies for Improvement and Partnership
Influenza
Lead Poisoning
Mental Health Conditions
- Supporting Clients’ Mental Health During Isolation and Quarantine
- Integrating Behavioral Health & Primary Care for People Experiencing Homelessness
Substance Use Disorder, Harm Reduction, and MAT
- Medication-Assisted Treatment in the HCH Community: Strategies for Expanding Services
- Treating Opioid Addiction in Homeless Populations: Challenges and Opportunities Providing Medication Assisted Treatment (Buprenorphine)
- The SPOT: Boston’s New Harm Reduction Program for Opioid Users Forges New Ground
- Medication-Assisted Treatment: Changes in Federal Policy Will Help Increase Access to Opioid Treatment in the HCH Community
Trauma
- A Trauma-Informed Learning Collaborative: Moving from Theory to Practice
- Trauma-Informed Organizations Learning Collaborative
- Hope, Transformation, and Post-Traumatic Growth
- The Abyss: Addiction, Homelessness, and Trauma
- Trauma is the Public Health Issue of Our Time
- Being Trauma Informed and Its Role in Ending Homelessness
Traumatic Brain Injury
Anti-Racism
- Winter is Coming: Evictions & Social Upheaval
- Anti-Racism Advocacy & Consumer Perspectives
- Community “Meet-Up” on Racism and Oppression
- Minority Stress and Trauma-Informed Approaches
Cold Weather Sheltering Plan
- Winter is Coming: Cold Weather & Disasters
- Developing a Cold Weather Sheltering Plan for People Experiencing Homelessness
Cultural Competency
Employment
Health Care for the Homeless
- A Costing Tool You Can Use: Demonstrating the Value of Services for People Experiencing Homelessness
- Introduction to the Health Care for the Homeless Model of Care
- Demonstrating Value: Measuring the Value and Impact of the Health Care for the Homeless Grantees
- Health Care for the Homeless Models of Integrated Care
- The FQHC HCH/PH Application Process
- Start with a Strong Foundation: Council Resources for Training Your Staff in HCH Core Competencies
Housing
- Housing is Health Care: An In-Depth Look at Denver HCH’s Integrated Model of Care
- Housing is Health Care: Prevalence and Considerations across the Housing Spectrum
Intimate Partner Violence
- Safer at Home? COVID-19 and Domestic Violence
- Responding to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV): Tools & Resources for HCH Staff
Outreach
- Homeless Outreach: A Pre-Treatment Guide
- Making the Business Case for Integrated Community Health Outreach Programs
- Motivational Interviewing: An Overview with Application for Outreach for the HCH Setting
- Tailoring Outreach for the HCH Field
Self-Care and Safety
Showers and Hygiene
Transitional Care
General Skills
Basics
- Outcome and Data Recommendations for Medical Respite Programs: Using Data to Tell the Story
- Medical Respite Start Ups: Lessons Learned and Recommendations
- Proposed Minimum Standards for Medical Respite Programs
- Somewhere to Heal: An Introduction to Medical Respite Care
- Medical Respite Care: Filling a Void in Homeless Health Care Services
Models of Care
Financing
- Medicaid & Managed Care Financing Strategies that Support Medical Respite Care Programs
- Financing Medical Respite Care: A Practical Discussion to Ensure Sustainability
Infection Control
Cognitive Impairment
Coronavirus
Children, Youth, and Families
- Adapted Anticipatory Guidance for Infants and Toddlers
- Clinicians’ Coffee Chat: Family Homelessness
- Promoting Healthy Habits: Innovative Nutrition Education & Physical Activity Programs for Homeless Children & Families
- Home Visiting Program for Underserved Families (for Clinicians)
- Home Visiting Program for Underserved Families (for Administrators)
Justice-Involved Populations
- Law Enforcement & Homelessness: Forging Fruitful Partnerships
- Health Reform and Justice-Involved Populations: Opportunities for the HCH Community
LGBTQ
- The Health of LGBT People: Ending Disparities, Ending Invisibility
- Optimizing Health Care for LGBT People in Patient-Centered Medical Homes
Older Adults
Rural Homelessness
Veterans
Women
- Forsake Me Not: How HCH Providers Can Deliver Better Care to Pregnant Women Experiencing Homelessness
- Distinct Health Disparities of LGBQ Women Experiencing Homelessness
- An Attack on Women: The Intersection of Violence and Homelessness
- Assessing the Needs of Women in Medical Respite
- The Nexus of Sex Work and Homelessness
- Safety Planning with Women Experiencing Homelessness
- Minority Stress: Racism and Women’s Issues
- Trauma-Informed Cervical Cancer Screening in Women with Experience of Homelessness: Translating Principles Into Practice
Youth Without Homes
Hospital and Insurer Partnerships
- The Role of Hospitals in Addressing Barriers to Care
- Serving Patients Experiencing Homelessness in Hospital Systems
- Hospital Community Benefit Funding: Potential Resources to Meet the Needs of Homeless Populations
- Managed Care and Homeless Populations: Linking the HCH Community and MCO Partners
Housing Authorities
Law Enforcement
Shelter Health
Medical-Legal Partnerships
Community Health Workers
Consumer Governance
- Rejuvenate Consumer Leadership: Lessons from the Updated Consumer Advisory Board Manual
- Effectiveness in Consumer Governance
- Consumer Involvement in Governance
Events & Observances
- From Darkness to Light: Honoring Success and Resilience at the Summer Solstice
- Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day: How to Plan, Organize, and Remember
- Organizing Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day Events
- Planning for HCH Day Activities
- 2014 HCH Day
Health Reform
- COVID-19 Coffee Chat: How to Be a Single-Payer Advocate During a Pandemic
- Health Reform & the HCH Community: What You Need to KNOW, What You Need to DO
- Health Reform & Homeless Populations: What Does the Law Do for You?
- Health Reform and Justice-Involved Populations: Opportunities for the HCH Community
- Health Reform and Medicaid Expansion: HCH Lessons Learned from Three States
Legislative Visits
Medicaid
- Medicaid & Managed Care Financing Strategies that Support Medical Respite Care Programs
- Implications of Medicaid Expansion on HCH Health Centers: Learning from Experience
- Living and Working in the Coverage Gap: Homeless Health Care in States Yet to Expand Medicaid
- Web Briefing: Early Impacts of the Medicaid Expansion for the Homeless Population
- Medicaid’s Home and Community-Based Services Program: An Orientation for Homeless Health Care Providers
- Connecting Homeless Individuals to Medicaid and Health Care Services: Key Lessons From HCH Administrators and Frontline Workers
Voter Registration
- Voting Series Part Two: Mobilizing People Experiencing Homelessness To Turn Out and Vote
- Voting Series Part One: Registering People Experiencing Homelessness to Vote
- Voter Registration and Engagement for the Health Care for the Homeless Community
- You Don’t Need a Home to Vote: Election Activities for HCH Projects