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.

This Toolkit contains information for Street Medicine providers to better understand their local homeless response Continuums of Care and opportunities to collaborate for the benefit of patients experiencing homelessness.

This webinar features local California public health departments that are addressing homelessness in their communities through new and innovative ways.

This training for local health jurisdictions and public health departments provides an overview of the foundations of the homeless system, so local public health departments can better understand and collaborate with the homeless system of care.

This training provides an overview of the foundations of the homeless system, so health care partners can better understand and collaborate with the homeless system of care.

This training shares opportunities for the health care sector to participate in Coordinated Entry.

This training provides an overview of the health system and benefits of cross-sector collaboration, to support efforts to engage health care partners in homeless response efforts.

The report contains foundational information for health care providers about how homeless assistance works at the local level, with a focus on Continuums of Care (CoCs) and Coordinated Entry (CE). The report includes practical, action-oriented suggestions on how to participate in a local community's homelessness response.