HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC
Everyone deserves to go home.
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What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Health Care Services
People can access a range of services when they walk through our clinic doors or connect with our staff in the community.
Medical Care: Our doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses and medical assistants deliver primary medical care to adults, children, youth and families.
Convalescent Care: Just down the street from our headquarters clinic downtown is Baltimore’s largest public emergency shelter. Here, Health Care for the Homeless social workers and medical providers run the city’s only medical respite program for individuals experiencing homelessness, where men and women recuperate from acute illness or surgery after being discharged from the hospital.
Dental Care: At our dental clinics downtown and in West Baltimore, the only dental clinics in Maryland exclusively for people experiencing homelessness, our dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants provide preventive dental care to children and adults engaged in health care services at Health Care for the Homeless—and restorative care, including dentures and bridges, to adult clients.
Behavioral Health: At Health Care for the Homeless, behavioral health care starts with one-on-one therapy with our behavioral health therapists. If an individual is interested in psychiatric medication or a therapist believes psychiatric medication would be helpful in treating that individual's symptoms, the therapist makes a psychiatric referral to one of our psychiatrists for assessment and treatment.
Through individual and group therapy, our behavioral health therapists and addictions counselors also work with clients to manage and improve symptoms, heal the traumas of homelessness, treat substance use disorders and provide ongoing support groups for those who have attained sobriety.
Supportive Services
Because getting and staying healthy requires more than just health care, we provide other services that help ensure the improved health of our neighbors without homes.
Help Securing Identification, Referrals and Transportation: Getting hold of birth certificates, state ID cards and Social Security cards can be hard for many. Because these documents open doors to services like housing and employment, we have a team of social workers who work with individuals to obtain them. They also make referrals to outside resources and transportation, and even escort people to appointments.
Help Securing Temporary and Permanent Housing: Because housing assistance is extremely difficult to access and navigate, we have outreach staff and social workers who assess the housing needs of individuals engaged in other Health Care for the Homeless services and develop a plan to connect them to appropriate and available housing resources. These staff members research housing options, contact landlords and help clients through the housing application process.
Supports to Help Individuals Stay Housed: Once particularly vulnerable clients are housed, staff members provide the supports they need to transition to housing and stay housed, including representative payee services, occupational therapy, group therapy and help with daily basics like house cleaning and shopping.
Group Support Activities: Our care providers facilitate support groups to promote overall physical and psychological wellbeing—from women’s and men’s peer groups to groups that focus on smoking cessation, diabetes education, stress reduction, life skills, writing and art.
Public Benefits Assistance: Many people we care for qualifys for a variety of public benefits including Medicaid, food stamps and federal and state disability and cash assistance programs. Our staff members help them navigate the complex processes to apply for and secure these and other benefits.
Advocacy
Services alone cannot end homelessness.
Health care and supportive services are essential to minimizing the suffering of our neighbors without homes. We need visionary—even revolutionary—change to make that happen.
So advocacy is core to the Health Care for the Homeless mission. Our advocates span staff, clients, partners, donors and volunteers, with the most powerful voice being that of those who know homelessness first-hand.
We advocate on local, state and national levels. And we focus our advocacy efforts on the underlying causes of poverty and on challenging public policies that uphold the status quo.
Our advocacy work is grounded in a multi-year advocacy agenda. We advance this agenda by partnering with a range of local and national organizations to push for universal access to comprehensive health care, affordable housing and livable incomes.
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HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS INC
Board of directorsas of 06/08/2023
Chelsea King Arthur
Get Well
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