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HCH Clinicians' Newsletters

Healing Hands, a publication of the HCH Clinicians' Network, melds scientific knowledge with the experience of clinicians working in Health Care for the Homeless. The Network's Communications Committee selects and prioritizes topics for Healing Hands, reflecting issues of concern to direct service providers and program administrators who serve people experiencing homelessness.

Healing Hands 1998 – 2006: Important Issues in Health Care for the Homeless is a bound collection of back issues of the Healing Hands newsletter. Click here to order the volume. See below for individual issues. Click here to see a list of Healing Hands issues by topic.

Date Title
2008
APR-2008 Aging on the Streets
FEB-2008 Traumatic Brain Injury: Emerging Tools for Assessment and Care
2007Jan Caughlin
Jan Caughlan, LCSW-C
Communications
Committee Chair
DEC-2007 Exposure-Related Conditions: Symptoms and Prevention Strategies
OCT-2007 Pediatric Oral Health: What Every HCH Provider Should Know
AUG-2007 Diabetes: Health Care’s Burgeoning Beast
JUN-2007 HCH Staff Recruitment & Retention: Unique Problems, Innovative Solutions
APR-2007 Medical Respite Care: An Integral Part of the Homeless Care Continuum
FEB-2007 Case Management For Homeless Clients Who Are Not Obviously Disabled
2006
DEC-2006 Homeless People at Higher Risk for CA-MRSA, HIV and TB
OCT-2006 Addiction on the Streets: Clinical Interventions
AUG-2006 Which Is It: ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, or PTSD?
MAY-2006 Integrating Primary & Behavioral Health Care for Homeless People
FEB-2006 The Challenges of Supervision in HCH: Helping Staff Succeed
2005
NOV-2005 Closing the Door to Homelessness: How Clinicians Can Help
AUG-2005 Heart of the Matter: Managing and Preventing Cardiovascular Disease
APR-2005 Nurses: On the Front Lines of Health Care for Homeless People
FEB-2005 Bugs That Bite: Helping Homeless Patients and Shelter Staff Cope
2004
 DEC-2004 Keeping Homeless People Out of the Justice System: The HCH Role
 OCT-2004 Pain Management: Reducing Disparities for Homeless Patients
 AUG-2004 Disaster Planning Requires Time, Resources, Collaboration
 JUNE-2004 Wound Care Difficult for Homeless Patients and Providers
 APR-2004 Prescriptions for homeless patients present financial/medical challenges
 FEB-2004 The Clinician's role in helping homeless people die with dignity
2003
 DEC-2003 Supportive Housing Helps Break Cycle of Homelessness
 OCT-2003 A Comprehensive Approach to Substance Abuse and Homelessness
SEPT-2003 Patients with Borderline Personality Disorders Challenge HCH Clinicians
JUNE-2003 Filling the Gaps in Dental Care
MAY-2003 Homelessness & Family Trauma: The Case for Early Intervention
MAR-2003 Dealing with Disability: Cognitive Impairments & Homelessness
2002
DEC-2002 The HCH Clinicians' Network: Eight Years and Counting
OCT-2002 Dealing with Disability: Physical Impairments and Homelessness
SEP-2002 Health Disparities Collaboratives: Closing the Gap Between Knowledge & Practice
JUN-2002 Crossing to Safety: Transgender Health & Homelessness
APR-2002 Electronic Information Systems in Homeless Health Care
FEB-2002 Renewal & Resiliency in Our Work
JAN-2002 Paso a Paso: Step by Step Toward Cultural Competence
2001
OCT-2001 Hard to Reach: Rural Homelessness & Health Care
AUG-2001 Pregnant and Homeless
JUN-2001 Single Males: The Homeless Majority
APR-2001 Heart of the Matter: Hypertension & Homelessness
FEB-2001 Are We Making a Difference?
2000
DEC-2000 Short of Breath: A Winter's Tale of Asthma, COPD & Homelessness
OCT-2000 Mental Illness, Chronic Homelessness: An American Disgrace
AUG-2000 Women's Health Care: Show Me the Way to go Home
JUN-2000 Eliciting Behavioral Change: Tools for HCH Clinicians
APR-2000 Clinicians as Advocates
FEB-2000 Protecting the Mental Health of Homeless Children & Youth
1999
DEC-1999 Coping with Stress, Creating & Maintaining Hope
OCT-1999 Diabetes Care: Old Challenges, New Strategies
AUG-1999 Integrated, Interdisciplinary Models of Care
JUN-1999 Highlights of the HCH Conference
APR-1999 Trauma & Homelessness
MAR-1999 Chronic Hepatitis C: Silent Intruder, Insidious Threat
JAN-1999 Tuberculosis & Homelessness: Metaphor for Our Time
1998
DEC-1998 Spirituality as a Clinical Tool: Care for the Homeless Mentally Ill
NOV-1998 Operation Safety Net: Outreach to Unsheltered Homeless People
OCT-1998 Health Care for Homeless Children: A Clinician's Perspective
SEPT-1998 Network to Study HIV and Homelessness
JULY-1998 Dual Diagnosis

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