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Explore Images from People Experiencing Homelessness in Our PhotoVoice Digital Exhibit
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| View photographs taken by people without homes from the second year of the Council’s PhotoVoice Learning Collaborative in our digital exhibit. Our three-year collaborative seeks to address the stigma of homelessness in communities across the U.S. by working with eight health centers to help them recruit consumers to document their experiences through the PhotoVoice research methodology. Putting cameras directly in consumers’ hands and asking what they want others to know about their lives, this digital initiative allows participants to make the experience of homelessness a visual reality. View the images and contact us with any questions or comments.
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| Save the Date for Our Medication-Assisted Treatment and Recovery Symposium
Make plans to attend the National HCH Council’s CME-accredited Medication-Assisted Treatment and Recovery (MATR) Symposium in Portland, OR, on Sept. 16-17! For homeless health care providers, MATR offers a vital strategy to combine medications with counseling and behavioral therapies for holistic, patient-centered treatment of opioid use disorder. Join national experts for two days of informative sessions and panel discussions on how to create new MATR programs, overcome barriers to implementation, strengthen existing MATR programs, tailor treatment approaches to special populations, and much more. Registration opens on August 6th!
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| We Need Your Help to Update Our Directories
The Council hosts several directories for Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) organizations on our website, and we need your assistance to keep them up to date. Please take a moment to review the directories that apply to your organization and submit updates to us by July 19.
Thank you for helping us keep our directories as current as possible!
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| New Healing Hands Examines Treatment Models for Non-Opioid Substance Use Amongst Populations Experiencing Homelessness
The Council’s latest Healing Hands is a companion issue to our spring issue on the relationship between non-opioid substance use, mental health, and homelessness. Less than 25 percent of Americans who need substance use disorder (SUD) treatment actually receive it, and people experiencing homelessness face more barriers to accessing treatment than housed individuals. This issue explores SUD treatment models for people without homes and pharmacological interventions for non-opioid substance use, including alcohol, methamphetamines, and cocaine. Our summer edition also provides tools to help care providers administer comprehensive, trauma-informed health care and harm reduction interventions. Read the full issue or view our Healing Hands archive.
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| View Archived Videos and Session Materials from #HCH2019
Thank you to all the attendees, presenters, exhibitors, and sponsors who joined us at our 2019 National HCH Conference & Policy Symposium to work together for justice in Washington, D.C. If you were unable to attend or missed a workshop, you can now view slides and materials from #HCH2019’s intensive sessions, Learning Labs, and Pre-Conference Institutes, as well as videos of the engaging speeches, award presentations, and our privately funded social justice rally in Lafayette Square. We hope to see you at #HCH2020 next year in Phoenix, AZ, from May 11-14!
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| Learn About Aging Homeless Populations and HIV PreP in Archived Webinars
Recent Council trainings explored aging and homelessness and the implementation of HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) in homeless clinics. Find practical advice and clinical strategies for providing care to aging homeless populations in the archived recording and slides of our Clinicians’ Coffee Chat discussing assisted-living care, capacity and guardianship, and more. Learn best practices for administering HIV PrEP to veterans experiencing homelessness from experts at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System in our archived webinar. You can find these and other free, archived NHCHC webinars on our YouTube channel.
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| Make the Most of the August Congressional Recess and Read Policy News in Mobilizer
Read our latest Mobilizer to learn how to take action ahead of the August congressional recess by inviting your Congressperson to visit your program or meet with you (find contact information, view a sample invitation letter, and review guidance for arranging meetings). Also included is a new section featuring need-to-know information on presidential candidates’ positions on poverty and homelessness, as well as highlights from Summer Solstice Success Celebrations and policy news. Stay tuned for more Mobilizers this summer featuring information on commentary for other proposed rules, health center funding, and Medicare For All—and if you haven’t yet, sign up to receive new issues! Note: the deadline for commenting on HUD’s mixed-status immigration rule has passed, but you can read our submitted comments.
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| Advocacy Action on a Damaging Housing Proposal
The Trump Administration has proposed changing how it allocates housing assistance to immigrant families—a move that would jeopardize housing for 25,000 families and result in increased family homelessness. Read the National HCH Council’s comments to HUD on this proposed change, which not only would force families to make impossible decisions, but also would be a costly and ineffective action. Instead of decreasing housing opportunities, we believe the Administration should be working to increase investments in affordable housing instead.
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| Latest Out of Reach Report Illustrates Crippling Lack of Affordable Housing
Our partners at the National Low-Income Housing Coalition recently released a 2019 Out of Reach report comparing rents with wages throughout America. The publication details just how difficult it is for low-wage workers to find and retain stable housing. Amongst its findings: on average, a full-time American worker must earn almost $23 an hour to afford a small, two-bedroom apartment at fair market rents and nearly $19 for a one-bedroom apartment. Read the report to learn more about the lack of affordable housing in the United States—a critical factor fueling America’s ongoing crisis of homelessness.
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| Apply for the Grand Challenge to End Youth Homelessness
Our colleagues at A Way Home America have just opened applications for the Grand Challenge, an ambitious initiative meant to create a pathway to ending homelessness for youth. Over a two-year period, the Grand Challenge will support 10 communities in efforts to effectively end homelessness for LGBTQ youth and youth of color, who are drastically overrepresented among youth without homes. Learn more and apply by August 20.
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| Medical Respite Care, Transgender Rights, and More in Media Focus
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| Council Seeking Research Assistant
The National HCH Council is seeking a new full-time Research Assistant! Help support the Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) field by developing and disseminating knowledge, increasing visibility of HCH-related research through publications and external collaborations, and improving the HCH field and community’s capacity for quality improvement and engagement in research. This position will also help increase the knowledge base, skillset, and resources of health center staff engaged in supportive housing initiatives in partnership with the Corporation for Supportive Housing. Learn more and apply by Tuesday, July 23.
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| HCH Careers: View Recent Listings on the Council's Jobs Board
The Council hosts job postings from across the Health Care for the Homeless field on our Careers page. We invite Organizational Members to submit open positions for jobs board, which attracts nearly 9,000 views each year. Recent postings include a Shelter Manager at the Community Health Centers of Burlington in Burlington, VT; a Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant at Colorado Coalition for the Homeless in Denver, CO; and a Medical Assistant—On Call, Nurse, and Benefits and Entitlement Specialist at Central City Concern in Portland, OR. View further listings and learn how to submit your own on our Careers page, and contact Jennifer Dix, Communications Assistant, with any questions.
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