Cross-sector partnerships.

Cross-sector collaboration is essential to addressing the growing crisis of older adult homelessness. The partners listed in this document represent organizations working at the intersection of homelessness, aging, and healthcare—each bringing unique capabilities that can help prevent housing loss, support older adults in crisis, and create pathways to long‑term stability. Together, these systems form the broad network needed to effectively prevent, resolve, and ultimately end homelessness for older adults.

This factsheet provides an overview of what the numbers are saying about the growing crisis of older adult homelessness in the U.S. It is intended to serve as a starting point for conversations between systems - including homelessness response, health care, and aging - and to underscore the need for alignment across systems to address the unique needs of this population.

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners is intended to help counties, CoCs, and local homeless response system partners better understand what MCPs are likely to invest in and prioritize to address the housing and health needs of their Medi-Cal members experiencing homelessness.

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners presents a simple workflow that CoCs and MCPs can use to accomplish this kind of client data match, as well as a list of recommended data elements to include in the matching process.

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners is a sample bi-lateral data sharing agreement (DSA) that is meant to help cross-sector partners identify the common components of a DSA between Continuum of Care (CoC) agencies responsible for HMIS data and Medi-Cal managed care plans (MCPs).

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners contains foundational information for managed care plans (MCPs) about how homeless assistance works at the local level, including practical, action-oriented suggestions to help MCPs participate in their community’s response to homelessness.