Medi-Cal Renewals: Ensuring People Experiencing Homelessness Retain Coverage

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.

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CalAIM Toolkit for Continuums of Care (CoCs) and CoC Partners

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.

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Pre-Conviction Housing Preservation

This training is designed to help cross-sector partners gain a basic understanding of relevant housing resources and challenges. It provides an overview of the homelessness response system and covers topics to improve coordination and collaboration across systems. Gain a basic understanding of relevant housing resources and challenges, learn when and how to leverage your clients’ housing status as a form of mitigation, Identify questions to ask your clients that will elicit the information you need, and learn about collaboration opportunities to better defend your clients.

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Exploring the Intersection of Homelessness and the Criminal Legal System

This training for cross-sector partners provides an introduction to the homeless system of care and an overview of the practical and legal landscape of the intersection of homelessness and the criminal legal system.

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Discharge Planning Considerations and Promising Practices

Discharge planning aims to connect individuals exiting jail or prison with community resources to facilitate healing, recovery, housing stability, and an overall improved quality of life. Effective discharge planning can prevent recidivism and homelessness while also promoting public safety. This document spotlights key considerations and common challenges related to discharge planning and provides promising practice tips for effective discharge planning for individuals exiting carceral settings who are experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.

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The Fair Housing Act and Criminal Background Checks: What Housing Providers and Case Managers Need to Know

This guide provides an overview of what housing and service providers should know about the Fair Housing Act (FHA) and criminal background checks so that they can comply as housing providers and help ensure the rights of their clients are not violated when they seek housing.

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Common Obstacles and Creative Approaches to Meeting the Housing Needs of People Who Have Been Incarcerated

This cross-sector training deck features panelists who draw from a variety of cross-system experiences to share insights and solutions to some of the common obstacles communities face when housing people who have been incarcerated.

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Cross-System Collaboration: Homelessness Response and Public Workforce

Just as the public workforce system is not designed or equipped to address the housing needs of people experiencing homelessness, homelessness response programs are not designed or equipped to comprehensively address the employment needs of unstably housed job seekers. Coordination is critical to leverage both systems' resources to better serve people and to improve outcomes for people experiencing homelessness as well as the systems designed to support them.

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Addressing Homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area: A Framework for Regional Data Sharing

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.

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No Bars to Home: Meeting the Housing Needs of People Impacted by the Criminal Legal System

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.

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How to Share Data - Practical Guide for Health and Homelessness System of Care

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.

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