June 5, 2025

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Join us this month and next for a wellness training series tailored to the needs of staff at medical respite care and Health Care for the Homeless programs. Hosted by the Respite Care Providers’ Network and HCH Clinicians’ Network, two of the Council's membership networks, these learning sessions will cover topics including compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma, coping with the complexity of overdose grief, burnout among leadership, and work-life balance.

Lexi Alberts, LICSW, will define and explore these topics and offer strategies for individual and collective care. Participants are welcome to register for as many of the sessions as they would like to attend; space is limited to the first 125 registrants for each webinar.

June 11 at 3 p.m. CDT

State Medicaid Director for the California Department of Health Care Services Tyler Sadwith will talk with NHCHC's Senior Director of Policy, Barbara DiPietro all about the state of Medicaid, the CalAIM Program, and the future of these crucial funding sources for so many California service providers.

June 27 at 4 p.m. CDT

The Ellen Dailey Advocacy Committee, a sub-committee of the Council's National Consumer Advisory Board, will focus on Medicaid for its June Community Conversation. In particular: Medicaid's challenges, including funding shortfalls, increasing enrollment demands, access to care issues, and future.

The latest issue of Healing Hands, our twice-yearly publication in partnership with the HCH Clinicians' Network, a membership network of the Council, explores some common challenges associated with aging, how homelessness magnifies these challenges, and how clinicians can provide better support.

The widely varying methodologies used to collect and report homeless mortality data across the U.S. make it difficult to estimate broader national estimates. This policy brief outlines considerations for reporting homelessness status, age, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender identity, and manner of death in homeless mortality reports.

This publication highlights collaborative efforts undertaken in Knox County, Tenn., to address an identified HIV cluster that began in 2021 and disproportionately impacted people experiencing homelessness and people using drugs intravenously. The Knox County Health Department coordinated response efforts and worked with local government entities, community organizations, federal partner agencies, and NHCHC to identify gaps in services as well as opportunities to partner for improved HIV detection, prevention, and service delivery. 

The nearly 300 Health Care for the Homeless programs across the U.S. provide tremendous value and impact to the communities they serve through care for vulnerable populations, savings to the system, economic stimulus, state-of-the-art practices, and integrated care with a focus on managing chronic conditions, preventive care, and quality health outcomes. Our new report highlights the savings and revenue these health care providers contributed to their communities in CY2023.

This new report highlights ways in which health centers and medical respite care programs can use the SSI/SSDI Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) model to help participants with disabling conditions obtain disability income (SSI/SSDI). View an archived recording of a webinar about this topic here.

In 2016, the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) — a health center that served more than 11,000 patients last year — started a unique, on-site response to overdoses. Program staff recognized that the availability of on-site substance use disorder treatment and more traditional in-clinic engagement were not sufficiently impacting on-site overdoses, or overdoses in general. Staff and leadership then considered: Rather than being in constant crisis response mode, what if BHCHP proactively monitored people who were already sedated as a way of preventing overdose? 

The limited availability of adequate end-of-life care facilities is a growing problem for the general population, and there is even more concern about the lack of resources available for people experiencing homelessness (PEH). PEH often suffer from more chronic medical conditions and age at an accelerated rate. Age-related mortality ratios show that PEH in all age groups have a higher risk of death than most people of similar age in the general population. The population of older adults experiencing homelessness is also rapidly increasing. This combination of factors highlights a need to increase and expand palliative and end-of-life care, also known as hospice care, into the homeless services continuum of care.

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This course focuses on the needs of older adults experiencing homelessness by exploring their unique medical needs and strategies for this population within the medical respite care setting.

Many clients who are referred to and engaged with medical respite programs have co-occurring behavioral health conditions and needs. This course provides an overview of behavioral health conditions and introduces ways programs can support individuals with behavioral health conditions.

Join us for one of our upcoming free learning opportunities! Browse upcoming webinars here.

June 11
3 p.m. CDT

June 12
1 p.m. CDT

June 19
2 p.m. CDT

June 26
1 p.m. CDT

June 26
1 p.m. CDT

June 26
2 p.m. CDT

June 27
4 p.m. CDT

July 19
2 p.m. CDT

July 17
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.