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June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
This brief outlines the rationale for states to consider designing Medicaid-financed, supportive housing-based care management services to improve care for at-risk beneficiaries while lowering costs associated with avoidable hospitalizations and other crisis services.
June 1, 2012 | Issue Brief
Supportive housing can help increase survival rates, reduce inpatient utilization, foster mental health recovery, and reduce alcohol and drug use among formerly homeless individuals.
November 22, 2011 | Program Result
Project H.O.P.E. designed and delivered an integrated treatment program for homeless people with mental health and substance use disorders living in Camden County, N.J.
March 9, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: Veterans are disproportionately represented among the homeless in the United States. What kind of aid does the VA offer in its homeless services programs? Blackstock: The VA is acutely aware of the overrepresentation of Veterans among the count ...
February 1, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
By Laura Sadowski, MD, MPH, and Romina Kee, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Clinical Scholar alumnae Becoming homeless is distressing for anyone, and it is especially challenging for people with chronic health problems who need ongoing car ...
July 8, 2011 | Program Result
The Corporation for Supportive Housing created Taking Health Care Home, a national effort from 2002 to 2010 to expand the pipeline of permanent supportive housing for chronically homeless people.
February 10, 2011 | Story
Two decades ago, an innovative group of physicians and funders, including the RWJF, pioneered the idea of giving health care to the homeless in their own environment.
January 25, 2011 | Story
Roseanna Means has started a nonprofit that gives homeless women and children in Boston love, acceptance—and free medical care.
April 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study examines a Housing First program in Seattle that succeeded in lowering public costs while not requiring complete sobriety among chronically-homeless individuals with severe alcohol problems.
August 23, 2010 | Story
2010 Community Health Leader winner creates a "medical home without walls" to meet the special needs of homeless women in the Boston area.