April 14, 2026

Be sure to secure your lower group rate before the deadline. There are rooms and suites on site, and we also have an overflow block on property adjacent to the meeting space.  Please book your room as soon as possible to take advantage of the reduced rate!

Make the most of your conference experience by arriving early for our Pre-Conference Institutes and Learning Labs. These focused sessions offer the time and space to dive deeper into critical topics, build practical skills, and engage directly with peers and experts before the main conference begins.

June 8: Pre-Conference Institutes
June 9: Learning Labs
June 10-11: Main Conference

Street Medicine Blueprints

Join street medicine experts from across the country in this session to learn the foundational philosophy of street medicine practice and discuss the policy and operational steps to develop a blueprint for bringing street medicine to life in your communities.

Motivational Interviewing

Through discussions and small group exercises, this PCI will explore how Motivational Interviewing (MI) can shape your conversations, build trust, and empower those you serve. 

Addressing Behavioral Health Needs in Medical Respite Care

This PCI will help providers better understand and respond to behavioral health needs in medical respite settings through interactive learning and practical strategies to strengthen client-centered care.

Leveraging health center data: Digging into administrative tools for health center sustainability

This PCI will provide guidance and examples of how health centers can use their operations data for financial sustainability planning and to address health care efficiency to support patients. 

Starting a Medical Respite Program

Facilitated by NHCHC staff and provider experts, this session will provide an overview of the foundations and models of medical respite care, program design guidance, and strategies for developing critical partnerships. 

PCI: Consumer Engagement

This Learning Lab will focus on practical ways to engage consumers in improving access to care for people experiencing homelessness. The session will feature consumer presenters and will be planned and led by the National Consumer Advisory Board Steering Committee.

Evaluation of Homeless Health Care Programs

This interactive learning collaborative will provide an opportunity for health centers and medical respite programs to learn best practices in program evaluation and apply it directly to their work.

Care for Older Adults 

This Learning Lab will examine the rapidly growing population of older adults experiencing homelessness, explore their unique and complex needs, highlight emerging community approaches, and engage participants across lived experience, practice, and policy to share challenges and solutions.

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April 22 at 2-3 p.m. CST

This webinar explores how IV antibiotics and outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy (OPAT), while highly effective, are often difficult for people experiencing homelessness to complete due to challenges related to housing instability and treatment management. It highlights the resulting gaps in care for hospitals, service providers, and patients, and examines how medical respite programs can help bridge these gaps. Participants will learn promising practices and considerations for safely supporting this care in a client-centered, harm reduction framework.

April 29 2-3 p.m. CST

Hospital systems are often structured around assumptions of stable housing, caregiver support, and predictable discharge destinations, creating challenges when those conditions do not exist. Drawing on interviews with patients experiencing homelessness and the clinicians who care for them, this session explores both shared challenges and differing perspectives in inpatient settings, and offers strategies to improve discharge planning, cross-sector communication, and person-centered care.

April 30 at 2-3 p.m. CST

Many medical respite programs are often the only program in their community, and it can feel challenging to have conversations with others who truly understand your day to day work. Join these quarterly meetups to connect with others in the field and in the Respite Care Providers’ Network, a membership network of NHCHC.

These virtual gatherings provide an opportunity to meet others in similar roles across the country, facilitate connection, and discuss issues and strategies for serving within specific roles in medical respite programs.

 

May 4 at 1 p.m. CST

This Community Conversation explores psychological safety in health care settings and its impact on staff wellbeing, retention, and patient care. Participants will engage in an open, unrecorded discussion to share challenges, successes, and strategies for fostering supportive environments across teams and communities.

May 5 at 11 a.m. CST

This webinar examines the connection between oral health and mental health among people experiencing homelessness and the impact of these conditions on overall wellbeing. Participants will learn practical strategies for integrating care across disciplines, including real-world examples from a health center, with 1.0 CDE available for attendees.

May 14 at 2 p.m. CST

The National Health Care for the Homeless Council will host a Community Conversation on dementia screening and documentation at Community Health Centers. The Community Conversation will provide an opportunity to learn from other health centers on how they have implemented dementia screening and responded to positive screening results, including best practices outlined in the October webinar and new publication, Dementia Screening in Community Health Center.

VISIT OUR ONLINE RESOURCE LIBRARY HERE

NHCHC has released five new adapted clinical guideline resources to support providers delivering care to people experiencing homelessness across key areas including respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological, skin, and perioperative care. These tools expand NHCHC’s growing collection of clinical guidelines, translating standard clinical guidance into practical, context-specific strategies that reflect the realities of homelessness and help clinicians deliver more effective, person-centered care.

Nurse-led care models center around and recognize the important and invaluable role of nurses in the health care setting, leveraging their leadership and skills to promote and support maximizing the roles of the multidisciplinary team. Download our new fact sheet, created in partnership with the National Nurse-Led Care Consortium.

H.R.1 made significant changes to how states finance their Medicaid programs and added eligibility restrictions such as work requirements and more frequent redeterminations. This fact sheet describes why states, hospitals, and payors should continue supporting medical respite care programs.

Join us for our learning or networking opportunities! Browse upcoming webinars here.

April 16
1 p.m. CDT

April 22
2 p.m. CDT

April 29
2 p.m. CDT

April 30
2 p.m. CDT

May 4
1 p.m. CDT

May 5
11 a.m. CDT

May 13
2 p.m. CDT

May 14
2 p.m. CDT

May 21
1 p.m. CDT

May 21
2 p.m. CDT

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Grounded in human rights and social justice, the National Health Care for the Homeless Council's mission is to build an equitable, high-quality health care system through training, research, and advocacy in the movement to end homelessness.