Detailed how-to guidance
Everyone, homeless or not, needs health care, and current plan provides many strategies to secure it. For homeless people with the most severe disabilities, however, the inability to access specific kinds of care remains a barrier to housing stability. Changes in Medicaid in the ACA, however, have the promise to provide that care to everyone who needs it. The plan should include making the know-how available in communities to take advantage of this opportunity.
In order to end chronic homelessness, it would be extremely helpful to have detailed assistance available, listing the different kinds of health care and supportive services that research shows are important components of an effective permanent supportive model, and providing guidance on the specifics of funding those services through Medicaid. Another useful tool would be a decision guide for operators of permanent supportive housing, helping them make a decision whether to set up internal systems to bill Medicaid for services, or whether to make an arrangement with a separate entity to obtain Medicaid-funded services for their residents.
There is also a need for more specific strategies to end homelessness for people who are experiencing addictions, and for whom permanent supportive housing may not be the answer.
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Anonymous commented
Getting assistance with specialist, treatment of care and mental illness services. The term homeless is a stigma, a person would recieve mental health sevices before a severe condition or injury.