What's happening in our Health Care for the Homeless community...
Last summer, when Danielle tried to enroll her three children into school, it was a little like preparing for a long voyage: the documentation and registration forms, countless trips to the store for school supplies and, of course, vaccinations and physicals.
Former Health Care for the Homeless client Kiarra Boulware couldn’t seem to overcome the drugs and violence overwhelming Sandtown, where she grew up and where nearly half of all families live in poverty.
When Mary* lost her home, she turned to a local shelter for help. What she found was abuse and sexual assault.
For transgender people like Mary, the experience of being homeless is dangerous and hostile.
Sylvia and Tony were first in line to get their hands dirty when L. Warner Companies (TWC) volunteers showed up for a sunny day of gardening at our downtown clinic on June 1.
Q&A with Director of Housing Services Lawanda Williams, LCSW-C on food, diabetes and homelessness
At this year’s National Health Care for the Homeless Conference, you presented on a panel titled Managing Diabetes and Chronic Disease through a Social Determinants Lens. What does that mean?
Last winter, Ray Fitzberger got frostbite on his legs and feet. Doctors had to remove three toes on his left foot. Not long after the surgery, Ray was released from the hospital.
“I didn’t expect to end up here,” Mr. Clarke says, sitting next to his son in an exam room. “Coming here from a different country, you’re supposed to do better, not worse.”
On Monday, April 16, we joined the Baltimore Housing Roundtable, Housing for All, City Councilman John Bullock and City Council President Jack Young to introduce the Fund the Trust Act, a bill that would create a funding stream for the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
Thanks to the leadership of our National Council team, staff members visited Washington D.C. on April 18 to talk health care, housing and opioids with members of the Maryland delegation.
Staff members made an impressive amount of stops and visited with elected officials…
