Fact Sheets

The National Council’s Fact Sheets, available to you at no cost, answer frequent questions about homelessness in general, medical respite care, policy and research. Use them with new staff and volunteers, during governing board orientation, meetings with your legislators, as part of your agency’s press kit or with your community partners and collaborators.

• HCH and HIV fact sheet | October 2011
  A one-page resource for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment resources available through the Council’s website.
• NHCHC Region 5 fact sheet | September 2011
  A snapshot of factors in Region 5 that affect health. Developed in conjunction with planning for our Detroit Regional Training in September 2011.
• HCH program fact sheet | May 2011
  History, financing, and requirements of the Health Care for the Homeless program. Use to educate community and government leaders about our program.
• Harm Reduction: Preparing People for Change | April 2010
  Harm reduction is an approach for substance use treatment that involves a set of practical techniques that are openly negotiated with clients around what is most likely to be achieved.
• Medical Respite Care: Demonstrated Cost Savings | February 2010
  Medical respite care meets the post-hospital recuperative care needs for people who are homeless while reducing public costs associated with frequent hospital utilization.
• FAQs: Negotiating Medical Respite Care with Hospitals | January 2010
  Hospital collaboration is essential to the success of medical respite programs. Hospitals are a source of patient referrals, data collection and income for medical respite programs. In return, hospitals receive significant cost savings by avoiding inpatient stays and reducing readmission rates.
• Homelessness & Health: What’s the Connection? | January 2010
  Many people are reduced to homelessness in a downward cycle that begins with a health problem, and rapidly escalates into employment problems, financial problems and housing problems.
• About the National Health Care for the Homeless Council | January 2010
  An outline of the National Council’s mission, activities and how donations support our work.
• What is Single Payer Health Care? | September 2009
  Defines single payer, compares U.S. to other countries on key health status indicators, examines myths vs. facts.