CHCS December 11, 2024
AT-A-GLANCE
Partners: Akido Labs and Homeless Outreach Program Integrated Care Systems (HOPICS)
Problem: Many people experiencing homelessness do not have access to comprehensive, patient-centered treatment for serious mental illness and substance use disorder.
Solution: Create a mobile street medicine program, built on a financially sustainable revenue plan, that addressed patients’ serious mental illness and substance use disorder needs.
Key Features: Mobile health care services (including medications for addiction treatment); street outreach/medicine; on-site housing-related support and services; and a referral pathway for additional services.
As of 2024, approximately 14,000 people living in the Los Angeles neighborhoods of South LA, Compton, Lynwood, and Paramount — collectively known as Service Planning Area 6 (SPA 6) — are experiencing homelessness....
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