Content Manager:
Brenda Proffitt, MHA
MISSION AND PRINCIPLES
The Health Care for the Homeless Clinicians' Network is a national association of clinicians dedicated to combating and preventing homelessness and to improving the health and quality of life of homeless people. Organized to provide peer support to clinicians from various disciplines, the Network actively:
- shares information and experience to enhance clinical practice;
- promotes clinical research;
- educates clinicians, communities, homeless people and policymakers on the interrelationship between homelessness, health and public policy issues; and
- collaborates with other clinical networks, professional associations, and groups working with homeless people.
Our mission is based on these underlying principles:
- The conviction that homelessness in the United States is an intolerable health and social problem;
- A commitment to confront the multiple and complex problems associated with homelessness by using an interdisciplinary approach;
- A commitment to improve the health status of homeless people by providing quality health care services in a holistic manner;
- A commitment to enhance homeless people‘s ability to care for themselves;
- A commitment to develop our leadership abilities, share information, and foster collegiality among clinicians serving homeless people;
- A commitment to honor the diversity of the homeless people we serve; and
- A commitment to speak out on homeless issues, educate the public, and inform public health policy.
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