Housing & Homelessness

This toolkit is designed to help organizations planning to integrate their data across HIV and housing service agencies.

This webinar was the first in the new HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau’s Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Integrating HIV Innovative Practices (IHIP) Webinar Series on “Replicating Innovative HIV Care Strategies in the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program.”

Webinars on HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) policy notices and program letters for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program recipients.

Highlight of two programs that successfully engaged in HIV care clients who are hard-to-reach and serve via delivery of HIV primary care, behavioral health, and housing.

Learn how two successful programs are addressing homelessness and housing instability and behavioral health disorders, improving client engagement and retention in care, and observing improved rates of viral suppression.

Insights on understanding and leveraging of existing housing service systems to better serve people with HIV experiencing unstable housing.

Review of HRSA/HAB Policy #16-02, and the impact of housing on Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program clients. Also included is an overview of a housing program from the Washington State Department of Health. 

Review of research on the impact of unstable/lack of housing on HIV care outcomes.

Medical case management acuity tool to assess severity of needs of clients living with HIV in various areas of functioning and categories of severity.

Best practices (and extensive resource links) for integrating into medical care teams the non-medical staff called Navigators.

Review of strategies for housing vulnerable populations in tight housing markets.

Insights from a HRSA SPNS initiative on care coordinator/patient navigation interventions for vulnerable populations.

Review of the impact of unstable housing and homelessness on each step of the HIV care continuum and insights on improving care engagement and health outcomes at each stage. 

Study examining models of integration and coordination of housing assistance services and HIV care.

Workbooks describing ways to help connect people living with HIV/AIDS to medical care. Estos cuadernos describen la manera de asistir a conectar personas que viven con VIH/SIDA con el sistema médico.  

Information and training resources for various community development programs under the auspices of HUD, including HOPWA, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS.