Council to Respond to New CMS and HUD Regulations; Individual Comments Welcome

Council Project Manager Juli Hishida will discuss strategies for engaging youths without homes in medical services at the National Network for Youth’s National Summit on Youth Homelessness in Washington, D.C., on March 15-16, 2016. Youths experiencing homelessness confront significant risks of disease and developmental delays that may impact their entire lives, and engaging them in health care has been a critical concern for HCH agencies and other providers. Strategies to reach such youths will be the focus of Hishida’s presentation, which will also provide a brief overview of relevant research such as the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study. Find more resources on youth homelessness on our Children, Youth, & Families page.

Long before the Bridge became an Organizational Member of the Council, the agency arose to fill a unique need. In 1954, a group of consumers in New York City created the program to ease their re-entry into the community after hospitalization. Six decades and thousands of patients later, the Bridge has emerged as a nationally recognized nonprofit that continues to offer consumers a pathway to treatment and recovery, but on a far larger scale. Serving 2,300 clients—and housing 800—every year, the Bridge provides comprehensive evidence-based rehabilitative services such as mental health and substance abuse treatment. In January 2015, the Bridge supplemented those services, launching a program to assist New York City’s veterans experiencing homelessness.