Updated in August 2025 to reflect the end of waivers put into place in 2023, this toolkit helps service providers, people who are unhoused, and health enrollment navigators keep Medi-Cal members covered.

This fact sheet provides an overview of the changes to Medicaid and SNAP and their expected impact on people experiencing homelessness, and opportunities for homeless systems of care and providers to mitigate those impacts.

This training provides an overview of CalAIM's housing-related supports so that public health departments can understand and leverage these new resources for the individuals they serve.

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 webinar provides an overview of the importance of data sharing between the health and homelessness sectors. It includes presentations from California communities driving innovations in cross-sector data sharing.

This training provides insight into opportunities to prevent hospital discharges into homelessness.

This webinar provides a deep dive into California's Housing & Homelessness Incentive Program (HHIP) and introduces Homebase's new HHIP Toolkit.

This webinar provides an overview of CalAIM and HHIP for CA's Continuums of Care (CoCs) and ways to leverage the funding streams and partnerships to strengthen health and housing outcomes.

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.

Check out our different National Medicaid Renewal Toolkits to learn how to help people experiencing homelessness renew their Medicaid.

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.

Homebase presented on workforce development at the national Housing First Partners Conference in April 2024. This presentation covers retention, burnout and well-being, and living wages.

The research is clear – low wages are directly related to challenges with employee recruitment and retention. There is no single standard for determining adequate wages within an organization or region, but this document includes tools to help determine what an adequate wage may look like in your community.

In 2024, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) introduced a new policy priority focused on building an effective workforce in the Continuum of Care (CoC) Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO). During the awards process, HUD will automatically apply cost of living adjustments to supportive services activities and other staffing-focused budget lines to allow renewal project budgets to keep up with rising costs. This document offers suggestions for how communities and project applicants can leverage this new policy priority to support appropriate staff wages across all CoC-funded projects.