Housing as Healthcare: How to Promote Housing Stability to Improve Health Outcomes

Tuesday, Aug 6, 2024 • 12 pm to 1 pm

Virtual

Training Sessions

Abstract

Access to safe, stable housing has a significant impact on individual’s physical and mental health well-being. This presentation will review common barriers to obtaining housing and what service providers can do to foster housing stability for their clients. We will also discuss UPMC’s housing and medical case management supportive housing program, Cultivating Health for Success (CHFS), to explore what the positive impacts of supportive services can be on unstably house individual’s healthcare utilization and long-term health outcomes. This presentation will incorporate housing first philosophy. Participants will learn what the most common barriers to housing access are, the benefits of supportive case management on housing access and stability, and how health stability and instability impact individual’s overall health.

Objectives

  •  Identify common barriers to housing stability for low-income Pennsylvanians.
  •  Understand the benefit of supportive case management models to maintaining stable housing.
  •  Apply best practices to working with unhoused and unstably housed individuals.

Accreditation

PHYSICIAN (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

NURSING (CNE)

A maximum of 1.0 nursing contact hours will be awarded. Participants will be able to claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the program.

SOCIAL WORK

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credits.

Psychologist (APA)

Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

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