Shelters are not adequate places to recover from surgery or illness. One of the only options available to people experiencing homelessness in Baltimore is our Convalescent Care Program (CCP), a small team that cares for clients discharged from hospitals—and who otherwise have no place to recover.

Earlier this year, Health Care for the Homeless partnered with CASA to back the Healthy Babies Equity Act. Ahead of its implementation, we spoke to Kony Serrano Portillo, Research and Policy Analyst at CASA, about the bill and health care access in Maryland.

Over the past seven years, rates of new HIV infection in Maryland declined 21%.

"Pass the Mic" is a storytelling space featuring the voices and stories of people with a lived experience of homelessness.

"We serve a lot of families enrolling in school in Baltimore for the first time. We recently saw a single mom and her two children who immigrated from Honduras.

What is monkeypox?

Monkeypox is a rare disease caused by the monkeypox virus. The World Health Organization and United States consider it a public health emergency.

Maryland summers are hot and getting hotter. But you’ll experience the heat differently depending on whether you have housing and where you live.

This past year was the first time Behavioral Health Coordinator Arianne Jennings, LCPC, D.Ph. supervised a social work student.

"Pass the Mic" is a storytelling space featuring the voices and stories of people with a lived experience of homelessness.

In 2021, Health Care for the Homeless created two new positions to support racial equity and inclusion (REI) work across the agency. REI Project Manager II Adedoyin Eisape, MPH and REI Health Specialist Arie Hayre-Somuah, LMSW, MPH reflect on the challenges, opportunities and progress in their roles so far.