Recommendations for Provider Assignments: Improving ECM & Community Supports Implementation

​Good matches between Medi-Cal members​ experiencing homelessness and E​nhanced Care Management (ECM​) and housing-related Community Supports providers ​are ​vital to ​ensure members are successfully engaged, enrolled, and utilizing these critical resources. ​This resource includes tips and data sources to help managed care plans match members experiencing homelessness to providers ​best positioned to support them. It covers initial provider assignments and provider switching.

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Meeting People Where They Are: A Guide for ECM Providers Serving People Experiencing Homelessness

Meeting people where they are is a core principle of Enhanced Care Management (ECM), but delivering services in shelters, encampments, and other community settings requires thoughtful planning and support. This resource shares practical strategies to help any ECM provider engage people experiencing homelessness in the field, with considerations for how Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans can support.

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Housing Support Plan (HSP) Template for Transitional Rent and/or Housing Deposits

This document provides a template Housing Support Plan to assist with referrals for Transitional Rent, California's new Medicaid benefit that provides up to six months of rental assistance for eligible Medi-Cal members. Authorization for Transitional Rent requires a completed Housing Support Plan that meets specific criteria.

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Transitional Rent: CalAIM’s Newest Community Support

A short overview of California's new Medicaid benefit, Transitional Rent, which provides up to six months of rental assistance for eligible Medi-Cal members experiencing or at risk of homelessness who meet additional eligibility criteria. 

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Transitional Rent Fundamentals for Local Implementers

An overview of California's newest housing-related Medicaid service, Transitional Rent. This webinar is intended primarily for local providers and agencies who are or will be directly involved in Transitional Rent implementation, especially county Behavioral Health departments, managed care plans, homeless response Continuums of Care, and potential Transitional Rent providers. 

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Transitional Rent Fundamentals for State Agency Staff

This webinar provides an overview of California's newest housing-related Medicaid service, Transitional Rent. Learn the basics of this unprecedented new resource in a digestible way and walk away with a better understanding of the key opportunities ahead.

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Recommendations to Improve Implementation of ECM and Community Supports for People Experiencing Homelessness

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners offers a list of the recommendations developed by Homebase, California CoC representatives, and some key provider partners. These are intended to facilitate improved collaboration toward full and effective ECM and Community Supports implementation.

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Opportunities for Homeless Systems of Care to Partner with Medi-Cal Managed Care Plans

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.

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Medi-Cal and Street Medicine

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners provides information about how DHCS defines Street Medicine for purposes of Medi-Cal coverage so CoCs can discuss street medicine needs, programs, and coordination opportunities with their local MCPs with this critical context in mind.

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Sample Workflow for Continuums of Care and Managed Care Plans to Conduct a Client Data Match

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.

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Needed HMIS Data Elements for Partnering with Managed Care Plans

This section of the CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners identifies data elements that are valuable for cross-sector data sharing that can better enable partners to work in a more coordinated and collaborative fashion.

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Bi-lateral Data Sharing Agreement Between a Continuum of Care and Managed Care Plan

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).

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