Medicaid’s Role in Preventing & Ending Homelessness
While it was never the pathway to ensuring health care as a human right unto itself, Medicaid inarguably saves lives. Millions would be homeless if not for the services Medicaid supports, and those who experience homelessness rely on it to survive. But the federal government has drastically threatened Medicaid’s power. Join this webinar for a timely discussion on how Medicaid prevents and helps to end homelessness, the status of federal funding for Medicaid, state-level opportunities for organizing, and what philanthropy can do to mitigate the harms of defunding this crucial component of the social safety net. Speakers include Michelle Schneidermann of the California Health Care Foundation and Bobby Watts of the National Health Care for the Homeless Council.
Affordable Housing and Health: Long-Term Solutions
This webinar explored innovative measures to address how The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated housing insecurity for millions of Americans who have faced the risk of eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness due to job loss, medical debt, and illness over the past year and a half.
Health, Housing, Equity, Race and Power Funders Convening
Health, Housing, Equity, Race and Power Funders Convening will be held on February 25-26, 2020, at The California Endowment in Oakland, California.
Making Neighborhoods Healthy: Investing in Housing Affordability and Mobility
The webinar also explored how funders, advocates, and community development partners can collaborate across sectors to fuel investment in health and housing.
Community-Based Health Systems: Using Housing as a Platform
This webinar explored how housing-based service models address the social determinants of health, promote population health, and advance health care systems change.
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