CFH 101
Care For the Homeless provides healthcare services primarily to people experiencing this.
What is homelessness?
This New York City rental assistance program helps eligible individuals and families find and keep permanent housing by paying part of their monthly rent.
This public health insurance program helps many eligible low-income New Yorkers pay for doctor visits, hospital care, prescriptions, behavioral healthcare, and other services.
What is Medicaid?
RISE UP is the name of our campaign to protect the safety and civil rights of people experiencing homelessness. What does RISE UP stand for?
To remain eligible to serve on the Consumer Advisory Board, members must use Care For the Homeless health centers at least this often.
What is once per year?
True or false: Someone must have health insurance or be able to pay to receive healthcare from Care For the Homeless.
False. CFH provides care regardless of a person's insurance status or ability to pay.
New Yorkers experiencing homelessness may receive services through these three settings: a traditional temporary residence, a smaller low-barrier residence, or a place where people can come in from the street for meals, showers, and other support.
What are shelters, Safe Havens, and drop-in centers?
This way of providing healthcare by phone or video became much more widely used during the COVID-19 pandemic. It continues to help people access care when transportation, distance, health conditions, or other barriers make an in-person visit difficult.
What is telehealth?
True or False: People experiencing homelessness are more likely to be violent than other members of the public
False. This is an inaccurate and stigmatizing stereotype. People experiencing homelessness face an increased risk of being victims of violence.
CAB members must meet these two health-related requirements to maintain their membership.
What is using CFH health centers at least once per year and a negative TB test?
These are the three broad types of healthcare offered by Care For the Homeless
Because of a landmark lawsuit brought by advocates, NYC must provide this basic protection to people experiencing homelessness who have nowhere else to stay.
What is the right to shelter?
Checkups, vaccines, screenings, and regular health visits are examples of this type of care, which helps prevent health problems or identify them before they become more serious.
What is preventative care?
This proposed law would add homelessness to New York's hate-crimes protections and improve the tracking of crimes against people experiencing homelessness.
What is the Homeless Protection Act, or HPA?
Before the full Consumer Advisory Board votes on whether someone can become an official member, the person must attend this many CAB meetings.
What is 3 meetings?
This model brings healthcare services directly to places where people experiencing homelessness already receive other services, such as shelters and drop-in centers.
What is the co-location model?
This New York State rental assistance program helps households that are experiencing homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless afford permanent housing.
What is the Housing Access Voucher Program, or HAVP?
Advocates use this phrase to explain that having a stable place to live makes it easier to rest, recover, store medications, eat regularly, and manage health conditions.
What does "housing is healthcare" mean?
This proposed law would add housing status as a protected class under New York's human-rights laws, helping protect people from discrimination because they are homeless.
What is the Homelessness Non-Discrimination Act, or HONDA?
These CAB-hosted events, led by people with lived experience, encourage shelter residents to share their talents, stories, and perspectives and use their voices in a positive and constructive way.
What are CAB open mic events?
This group of people with lived experience of homelessness advises Care For the Homeless and helps shape its services, programs, and advocacy.
What is the Consumer Advisory Board or CAB?
What is Housing First?
Housing, access to health food, transportation, income, safety, and social support are examples of these nonmedical conditions that influence a person's health.
What are social determinants of health?
Through surveys, focus groups, storytelling, and meetings with elected officials, this group has helped identify the safety and discrimination issues addressed by the RISE UP campaign.
Who are people with lived experience of homelessness, including CAB members?
CAB members use personal stories, public speaking, meetings with elected officials, surveys, and testimony as different forms of this work to create change.
What is advocacy?