Registration is now open for our Fall Training Symposium on October 4, 2017, at the Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville, TN! This daylong event will bring together administrators, providers, consumers, and advocates as we “Rise to the Challenge Together” to address the challenges facing the homeless health care community. Our Symposium will offer registrants eight intensive sessions in homelessness and health care, from Advocacy 101 and illustrating HCH value through performance and growth trends to constructing powerful stories. Register now.

Registration Now Open for Our Leadership Summit on Homelessness & Health Care

Registration closes on August 29 for the Council’s Leadership Summit on Homelessness & Health Care from October 5-6 in Nashville, TN. The Council has sent invitations for the Summit, which complements our National HCH Conference by focusing on priority-setting for the Council’s advocacy and programs, leadership development, networking, and peer support. Learn why our longtime members recommend this event, and consider also attending our Fall Training Symposium the day before the Summit. Contact us if you’re unsure about your organization’s membership status. If your organization is not a member but would like to participate in this unparalleled homeless health care strategy meeting, then join us for just $500. 

New White Paper Explores the Value and Impact of Health Care for the Homeless

Find examples of the uniqueness of homeless populations and the invaluable work that HCH grantees provide to our communities through data and firsthand accounts in our new “Demonstrating Value: Measuring the Impact of the Health Care for the Homeless Grantees“ white paper. Demonstrating the value of health centers is a necessary element of sustainability and measuring benefit. To help illustrate that value, this document provides an overview of the complex challenges facing homeless populations, the history and innovations of Health Care for the Homeless, and the critical impact of the work of HCH programs. View the paper.

Storytelling Guide Seeks to Help Cultivate Effective and Powerful Stories

Created by the National HCH Council’s National Consumer Advisory Board, our new Storytelling Guide offers practical advice from individuals with the lived experience of homelessness to other individuals seeking to share their experience of homelessness. Sharing stories has the power to build empathy, connect people, and change perspectives. Storytelling allows us to share our personal experiences to move discussions of homelessness and health care from a focus on individual failures towards discussions aimed at solutions to the larger root causes of poverty and illness. To help tell their own stories, this guide offers strategies and tips to help tell effective stories and highlight the reality of homelessness–from tips on public speaking to ideas for publicizing your story. Read the Storytelling Guide.

HCH Day Reflection: What Is #HCHValue? Access, Quality, Justice, and Community

Yesterday, we celebrated the value of Health Care for the Homeless in HCH Day, part of National Health Center Week. But what is #HCHValue? In an essay, Consumer Advocate Katherine Cavanaugh examines the interplay of health care and housing, the invaluable work that HCH programs working at this intersection perform, and how we conceive of #HCHValue. Read the full essay and find more resources, including our HCH Value Infographic, on our HCH Day page.