In her first few weeks as a Therapist Case Manager at Health Care for the Homeless, Lakeesha Griffin helped 12 people sign leases and move into Sojourner Place, a supportive housing partnership with Episcopal Housing

The long search for our Director of Advocacy is finally over—and we are thrilled to welcome Joanna Diamond, Esq.!

“My husband calls me the ‘poop nurse,’” says Tracy Russell with a chuckle. And for good reason. Tracy and fellow Population Health Nurse Catherine Fowler have been on a mission to increase colorectal cancer screenings and treatment among our clients.

This past summer James Barnes and La Keesha Arrington-Vega joined forces on an agency workgroup to make sure that everyone who comes to us gets the care they need.

We’ve known for years that housing is the solution to homelessness—and that housing is health care. Yet, we’ve witnessed a sweeping disinvestment in affordable housing across the country. This summer our Board of Directors formed a Housing Committee to guide us as we find our place in affordable and supportive housing.

Earlier this month, Congress and the Administration passed The Substance Use-Disorder Prevention that Promotes Opioid Recovery and Treatment for Patients.

When a few of our staff and board members laced up their boots to head to Denver in the dead of winter last year, housing our city’s most vulnerable individuals was on their minds.

We’re an agency of movers and shakers. So it comes as no surprise that many staff members are moving into bigger and better roles—right here!

In 2016, thousands of community members raised their voices in support of the Affordable Housing Trust Fund—a bill that would require public investment in affordable housing. With 180,000 Baltimore City residents voting favorably for the fund, it passed without a hitch.

On any given day, 175 people will die from overdose in the United States.