CHCS March 27, 2025
Meryl Schulman, Center for Health Care Strategies, Devon Winey, Mt. Auburn Associates, and Michelle Schneidermann, California Health Care Foundation

California has the largest homeless population in the country, with more than 181,000 people experiencing homelessness on any given night, including many who are unsheltered. Notably, Black and Indigenous people are overrepresented among California’s homeless population compared to their counterparts in the general population. CalAIM, the state’s initiative to transform Medicaid services, provides new opportunities to help Californians experiencing homelessness access coordinated health care, housing, and social services. The success of CalAIM rests heavily on successful cross-sector partnerships, often requiring unprecedented coordination between health and homeless services.

To facilitate new connections between the health and homeless services sectors, the California Health Care Foundation and the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) launched Partnerships for Action: California Health Care & Homelessness...

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