The Youth Health and Housing Lab at University of Minnesota made a community report titled "Systems Alignment to Optimize Health for Youth Experiencing Homelessness: A Youth Participatory Multi-Sector Project to Advance Health Equity". Resource: See the report here. Project Page: Systems Alignment...

Jesus Valero and Hee Soun Jang have been researching services for people experiencing homelessness that are run at a local level and often involve multiple agencies known as Continuum of Care. They are now embarking on a study of how the continuum of care for people experiencing homelessness, which...

S4A grantees from The Ohio State University, University of Colorado, Denver, Stanford University, and Mandela Yoga Project gave a panel presentation at American Public Health Association's 2025 Annual Meeting in celebration of the upcoming AJPH Special Issue. Researchers discussed what each project...

Overview Residents in the Chicago metro area are benefiting from research conducted by Drs. David Meltzer and Harold Pollack at the University of Chicago School of Medicine and Urban Labs, a Collaborative Research Center funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). Their team of...

S4A investigators at the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health created a novel initiative in 2012, Housing for Health (HFH), with a three-pronged mission: (1) to end homelessness in L.A. County, (2) to reduce the need for costly medical care services, and (3) to improve health outcomes for...

Overview The “Improving Population and Clinical Health with Integrated Services and Decision Support” research project was featured in a news story published by announcing their receipt of a first place award from the Inject Tech Challenge, a digital health competition, in November 2018. More...

Overview The Comprehensive Care, Community and Culture Program (C4P) has a dedicated website which describes details about the program, the team, and ways to get involved. The website can be accessed here. Details Project: The Comprehensive Care, Community, and Culture Program Resource: View Webpage...

Overview The Self-Sufficiency Series from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services profiles local programs from across the country that are implementing “Principles of Economic Mobility” contained in President Trump’s Executive Order on Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity...

Overview Sposored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Administration for Children and Families, and the Office of Family Assistance, the Peer TA Network facilitates the sharing of information across state and local agencies implementing the Temporary Assistance for Needy...

The research team was featured in a Healthcare Innovation article entitled, "Connecting Medical Care and Social Service Needs: Chicago Health Leaders Take Charge." The article highlights how their work that shares health information between social service agencies and patient-centered medical homes...