This toolkit is designed to help organizations planning to integrate their data across HIV and housing service agencies.
These resources focus on programmatic approaches to providing and linking to housing services and on effective approaches to serving homeless and unstably housed clients.
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Guidelines and Manuals
- RAND Corporation, HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Webinars on HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB) policy notices and program letters for Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program recipients.
Webinars and Training
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
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.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
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.
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Insights on understanding and leveraging of existing housing service systems to better serve people with HIV experiencing unstable housing.
- NASTAD
This is a 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.
- National Center for Innovation in HIV Care
Review of research on the impact of unstable/lack of housing on HIV care outcomes.
Tools and Job Aids
- Massachusetts Department of Public Health
Medical case management acuity tool to assess severity of needs of clients living with HIV in various areas of functioning and categories of severity.
Reports and Best Practices
- HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB)
Data reports, slide decks, and infographics on the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP).
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
Best practices (and extensive resource links) for integrating into medical care teams the non-medical staff called Navigators.
- Boston University School of Social Work Center for Innovation in Social Work and Health
Review of strategies for housing vulnerable populations in tight housing markets.
- Center for Advancing Health Policy and Practice
Insights from a HRSA SPNS initiative on care coordinator/patient navigation interventions for vulnerable populations.
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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.
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Study examining models of integration and coordination of housing assistance services and HIV care.
- AIDS Action Foundation
Estos cuadernos describen la manera de asistir a conectar personas que viven con VIH/SIDA con el sistema médico.
- AIDS Action Foundation
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.
Websites
- U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Information and training resources for various community development programs under the auspices of HUD, including HOPWA, Housing Opportunities for Persons with AIDS.