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 blog shares Senior Directing Attorney Gillian Morshedi's reflections on the integration of housing and health, and how the field has progressed over the past decade.

When we set out to help homeless service providers navigate Medi-Cal renewals, we didn’t expect to uncover another systemic challenge faced by people experiencing homelessness: keeping Medi-Cal when moving across county lines. In this blog post, Policy Analyst, Riley Meve, and Senior Directing Attorney, Julie Silas, share how community conversations led to new collaborations and resources.

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.

Peer Health Ambassador Programs have been developed to improve health education and connections for people experiencing homelessness by hiring, training, and mentoring health ambassadors who have lived expertise and experiences of homelessness. This toolkit is designed to help new and expanded Peer Health Ambassador Programs design, develop, and implement their programs in ways that are effective, equitable, and specific to the needs of people experiencing homelessness in the community. This toolkit provides foundational information, best practice guidance, and sample resources that can support local design and implementation.

After a three-year pause due to COVID-19, the Medi-Cal renewal process restarted in California as of June 2023. This training highlights the risk of losing coverage during this process, especially for people who are unhoused. This training provides an introduction to Homebase's Medi-Cal Renwal Toolkit, which provides 11 tools for homelessness providers, people experiencing homelessness, and Health Enrollment Navigators to help people maintain their coverage.

The CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC partners contains guidance and planning documents intended to support effective cross-system collaboration between homeless response system partners and local Medi-Cal managed care plans (MCPs) through the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) initiative.

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.

The Housing & Homelessness Incentive Program (HHIP) allows Medi-Cal managed care plans (MCPs) to earn incentive funds for making investments and progress in addressing homelessness and keeping people housed. This resource explores the goals of HHIP and the process for how MCPs earn HHIP funds.

People experiencing or at risk of homelessness with mental illness or substance use disorder (SUD) often have a difficult time obtaining housing and may face discrimination because of their conditions. There are federal laws that protect people from this type of discrimination and ensure equal access and opportunity to enjoy housing that suits their needs.

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.