Provide mobile services to individuals experiencing homelessness
Health issues are primary obstacles for people seeking to rise out of homelessness.
Provide a wide array of free mobile and pop-up health care services in communities with high levels of poverty and homelessness.
To get started:
Survey your region to identify locations for the service, to include encampments and areas around shelters. Urban, suburban, and rural encampments are often found through partnering with nonprofit organizations.
Partner with a shelter-based clinic that already provides services. Create synergies of service that better support individuals as they seek to rise out of homelessness and poverty.
Connect with local HHS offices to learn of gaps in service, such as mental health care and nutrition.
Best Practices / Innovative Programs
The Los Angeles Breath Mobile Program provides mobile-based pediatric asthma disease management to low-income children at no cost to their families. It was established in 1995 as a collaboration in Los Angeles County to provide on-site asthma treatment to reduce health disparities.
This publication from Health Care for the Homeless Clinician's Network highlighted effective approaches to shelter-based care for homeless populations. The report provides tips and best practices on how to provide care.
Healthcare for the Homeless provides care management services through a coordinated model that focuses on improved health outcomes for low-income populations in the Baltimore area.
