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.

This suite of reports offers a deep dive into the impact, challenges, and opportunities made possible by two critical and complementary state initiatives aimed at improving health and housing outcomes of Californians experiencing homelessness: CalAIM’s housing-related services – Enhanced Care Management (ECM) and Community Supports (collectively referred to in these materials as ECM/CS) –and the Housing and Homelessness Incentive Program (HHIP).

This report explores ways to streamline and improve the Medi-Cal renewal processes for people experiencing homelessness, with recommended strategies and best practices based on Homebase’s understanding of the common barriers people experiencing homelessness faced during Medi-Cal’s continuous coverage unwinding, as well as the direct feedback that Homebase received from people experiencing homelessness, their health and homeless services providers, and advocates during our Medi-Cal renewal campaign.

This Framework articulates the value and importance of regional data sharing as a way to ensure that the nine Bay Area counties are collaborating effectively to address the systemic issues that face so many of our most vulnerable and disenfranchised residents. A regional approach to homelessness is visionary, practical, and essential to solving homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area.

This report highlights essential elements and key takeaways of successful housing programs supporting people impacted by the criminal legal system, with a particular focus on people who were formerly incarcerated.

This practical guide is intended to serve as a tool for communities at any stage of engagement in cross-sector data sharing between health and homeless systems of care. It is designed to help communities ready to start such efforts for the first time, as well as those that have room to grow their data sharing efforts.

Purposeful collaborations between the health care and homeless systems of care address the important relationship between health care and housing. This report focuses on the various ways in which the two sectors in California are sharing data with each other to better coordinate and support mutual clients within their communities.