2016 National Health Care for the Homeless Conference & Policy Symposium

Tuesday, May 31, 2016

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7:00 AM-8:30 AM

Breakfast

7:00 AM-6:00 PM

Registration and Check-In

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Technical Assistance

8:30 AM-4:30 PM

A seat at the table: Influencing state health care delivery system reforms & aligning internal HCH operations
Barbara DiPietro, PhD, John Lozier, Barry Bock, RN, Bobby Watts, MPH, MS, CPH, Kevin Lindamood, MSW, Tom Andrews, MBA, Rachel Solotaroff, MD, MCR, Paul Leon, RN, PHN, Ed Stellon, MS, MA, CADC, Frances Isbell, MA, Marty Sabol, Catherine Anderson, MPA, John Gilvar, Leslie Tallyn, Hannah Katch, Kathy Moses, William Kennedy and Sean Kolmer

Emerging from the abyss: Programmatic and professional strategies to help people recover and grow
Matt Bennett, MBA, MA, Siotha King-Thomas, Drug and Alcohol Certificate and Deborah Borne, MD, MSW

Medical respite care: Positioning your program for success
Julia Dobbins, MSW, Donna Biederman, DrPH, MN, RN, Brandon S. Clark, MBA, Henry C Fader, JD, Jessie Gaeta, MD, Jennifer Nelson-Seals, MSHRM, Honora Englander, MD, FACP, Rebecca S. Ramsay, BSN, MPH, Carrie Harnish, LMSW, Caitlin Synovec, MS, OTR/L and Scotti Warren, CSWA, MSW, MPH

Primary care providers and psychiatric care: The next level
Susan Marie, PMHNP, PhD, Lynda Bascelli, MD and Marianne Savarese, RN, BSN

You receive federal funding! Why should we support you? How would you answer that question?
Maureen Neal, CFRE, Donald Shepard, PhD, Caitlin Feller, MPP, PCMH CCE and Helena DeLigt, LCSW

Your oral health program: Strategies for success
Phillip Thompson, Daniel Brody, DMD, Dori Bingham, Mark Doherty, DMD, Colleen Anderson, DDS, Mark Koday, DDS and Da-Nell Rogers, BA

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Lunch

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

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6:30 AM-8:00 AM

Breakfast

6:30 AM-6:00 PM

Registration and Check-In

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

First-Time Attendees Breakfast

7:00 AM-5:00 PM

Exhibitor Hall Open

Posters

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Addressing brain injury within HCH settings: Screenings, interventions, and outcomes
Caitlin Synovec, MS, OTR/L and Jan Caughlan, MSW, LCSW-C

Community model for moving law enforcement reform forward: Essential elements of Albuquerque's APD forward campaign & consumer-driven training
Jennifer L. Metzler, MPH, Peter Simonson, Ph.D., Adriann Barboa and Carmon Ryals, N/A

Data driven quality: A participatory discussion on improving health through data
Chuck Amos, MBA, Chris Espersen, MSPH and Mandy Graves May, MPH

Healing from the outside in: Developing a comprehensive wound care program in your HCH clinic
Pat Buckley, PA-C, ND, WCC

Health care for the homeless in Oregon: A panel discussion

Integrating and sustaining patient navigators in a primary care medical home
Maurice Evans and Christa Black, MPH

Oral Presentations I

Transaccess: Gender affirming HIV primary care for San Francisco's transwomen of color
Royce Lin, MD, Talia Dela Cruz and Kate Franza, MSW

Voting matters: From voter registration to get out the vote
Matt Warfield, MSW, MUP, Joseph Benson, NCAB Member and Iris Hodge, BS Women and Gender Studies

What's new in homeless health care? A no-jargon summary of the latest research
Travis Baggett, MD, MPH, Stefan Kertesz, MD, MSc and Margot Kushel, MD

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Technical Assistance

9:30 AM-10:00 AM

Break

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

A doctor, a pharmacist, a public health activist call for HCV treatment for active users
Ryan Hutchison, MD, Mindy Butler, RPh and Haven Wheelock, Bachelors of Science in Community Health

Coordinated entry: Understanding and improving the way your clients enter permanent supportive housing
Kim Keaton, MPA, Helena DeLigt, LCSW and Margaret Flanagan, LGSW

Eliminating barriers to care for transgender and gender non-conforming individuals
Claudia Davidson, MPH, Jazz McGinnis, Amber Gray, CBHS/MHSA, Eowyn Rieke, MD, MPH, Kandi Lea Patterson and Sara Reid, BA

HRSA, SAMHSA, and HUD update
Jayme S. Marshall, MSW, Tonya Bowers, MHS, Jennifer Ho and Matthew Doherty, ED, USICH

Homelessness screening in the emergency department: Mending the holes in your safety net
Brett Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C

Medical home without walls: Community integrated mobile care for people experiencing homelessness with HIV
Deborah Borne, MD, MSW, Siotha King-Thomas, Drug and Alcohol Certificate, Ruthanne Marcus, Carole Hohl, PA-C and Lindsay Powell, DNP

Oral Presentations II

The activist consumer advisory board: Using CABs for policy advocacy, health education and social justice
David Peery, JD, Tina Hayes, N/A and T. Sukari Finley, N/A

The effects of clinic and staff attitudes about people experiencing homelessness
Sandy Sheble-Hall, RN, ACRN, Lisa McKeithan, CRC, Robert Betancourt, LCDC, LCSW and Angelica Palmeros, MD, MSW

The power of value-based leadership and decision making
Matt Bennett, MBA, MA, Jennifer L. Metzler, MPH and Kevin Lindamood, MSW

The quality and compliance connection: From the board to the frontline, strategies for building accountability
Dianne K Pledgie, Esq and Barry Bock, RN

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Lunch

12:00 PM-12:30 PM

Keynote Address: Dr. David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.

12:30 PM-1:00 PM

Awards Presentation

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Beating the blues: Improving depression screening rates in two FQHCs
Laura Garcia, CRNP and Nikki Allen, LCSW, LAC

Crossing the abyss: Engaging people experiencing homelessness in health care through innovative service delivery models
Mary Tegger, PA-C, AAHIVS, MA, Bryan Swisshelm, MPH and Eowyn Rieke, MD, MPH

Health care for the homeless for dummies: How to integrate and navigate the system
Joseph Mega, MD, MPH and Heather Cedermaz, NP

Improving access to housing choice vouchers for people experiencing homelessness
Ehren Dohler, MSW and Frances Isbell, MA

New Access Point Orientation

What did you say? Reframing and messaging in HCH advocacy
Jeff Foreman, JD, MGA, MA, MS, Philip Malebranche, B.A., Sociology and Dominiq Williams

When street medicine isn't enough: Effective transitions from the street to the clinic
Brett Feldman, MSPAS, PA-C and Joel Hunt, MSPAS, PA-C

2:00 PM-2:30 PM

Break

2:30 PM-4:00 PM

A collaborative model for housing and services for veterans
Kevin Fisher, Director of Veterans Services, MSgt, USAF (RET), Chaplain, Master of Divinity, Ansell Horn, PhD, Family Nurse Practitioner, Writer, Photographer and Tim Blackmore

Advocating for justice, organizing for power: Legislative advocacy, community organizing, and policy change
Jeff Foreman, JD, MGA, MA, MS, Matt Warfield, MSW, MUP, Adam Schneider, MA, MSW, Vanessa Borotz and Gary Cobb

Demystifying Medicaid managed care: Maximizing opportunities to partner more effectively with MCOs
Barbara DiPietro, PhD, Clayton Chau, MD, PhD, Peggy Bailey, Catherine Anderson, MPA and Hieu Nguyen, MSW, LCSW

Driven to care: A mobile solution for providing healthcare for people experiencing homelessness
Leah Murry, BA, Michelle Keller, BA, MA and Martin Murphy, FNP

Empowering change: Improving self-management among food-insecure diabetics
Amber Richert, DNP, CRNP

Health care (maintenance) for the homeless: Integrating preventative care into a HCH clinic
Joanna Eveland, MS, MD, AAHIVM, ABAM and Megan Greenberg, MS, FNP

Integrating trauma informed care and harm reduction philosophies and practices to improve participant health outcomes
James Kowalsky, BA and Susie Bernero, LCPC

Oral Presentations III

ROSE (Recovery Oriented Supports and Engagement): Engaging youth experiencing homelessness towards recovery
Jasmine Pettet, Cadc1 and Celia Luce

Roundtable: Beyond access to care: How outreach workers can advance social justice and health equity
Megan OBrien, MA

Roundtable: Excellence in health care for the homeless executive leadership
Matt Bennett, MBA, MA and Doreen Fadus, MEd.

Roundtable: HRSA/SPNS initiatives to improve housing and health outcomes for HIV homeless populations
Melinda Tinsley, MA and Serena Rajabiun, MA, MPH

Roundtable: Moving from consumer engagement to consumer leadership
Katherine Cavanaugh, MSW

Roundtable: Strategies for engaging and caring for youth experiencing homelessness
Catherine Verriere, DNP, ARNP, FNP-BC

Transformative care through collaboration: One city's approach from the streets to housing
Marrisa Axelrod, RN, Rose Garcia, MA and Brian Hardgrave

4:30 PM-6:00 PM

Clinicians' Network Membership Meeting

5:00 PM-10:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

Conference Reception

Thursday, June 2, 2016

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6:30 AM-8:00 AM

Breakfast

6:30 AM-4:30 PM

Registration and Check-In

7:00 AM-8:00 AM

Clinicians Network Meeting (Closed Meeting)

NCAB Meeting (Closed Meeting)

RCPN Meeting (Closed Meeting)

7:00 AM-5:00 PM

Exhibitor Hall Open

Posters

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Consumer safety at health care for the homeless: Results from the consumer participation outreach survey
Joseph Benson, NCAB Member, Valarie Dowell, BA and T. Sukari Finley, N/A

From research question to legislation: How community-based research can foster social change
Lisa Klingenmaier, MSW, MPH, Tony Simmons and Adam Schneider, MA, MSW

It takes a community: A collaborative approach to providing outpatient-based opioid treatment
Geren Stone, MD, Kristin Hirth, RN and Rita Chapdelaine, LICSW

Oral Presentations IV

Peer support as part of the integrated care model: Integrated experience with a holistic eye
Sophia Franklin, LCSW, Krystal Toland, MSIDT and Adina Lewis, CPS

Strategic Funding: Aligning partner expectations with clinical priorities
Margaret Flanagan, LGSW and Kevin Feldt, MPA

The most challenging respite patients: Opportunities for improvement
Joseph Mega, MD, MPH, Sue Dickerson, RN and Heather Cedermaz, NP

The other side of the coin: Financial measures from programmatic data.
Todd Studeny, CPA, John White and Ryan Zadera

There is no "us" vs "them": A stepping stone toward organizational transformation & culture change
Karen Rosenthal, CPRP and Lynnae Brown

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Technical Assistance

9:30 AM-10:00 AM

Break

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Empowerment in consumer governance
Carmon Ryals, N/A, Derek Winbush, n/a and Tina Hayes, N/A

Health care for the homeless and community health workers: A guide to integrating CHWs into clinical practice
Susan Childs, CPS, Rodney Dawkins and Susan Moore, MPA, MPH

Homelessness is a symptom of racism, and we're only treating the symptom
Heather Strauss, Gerardo Benavides, Jeff Olivet, MA, Marc Dones, BA, Leonard Croft and Adam Schneider, MA, MSW

Oral Presentations V

Overcoming data challenges and creating new links in housing and health care
Paul Rossi, Kim Keaton, MPA and Jasper de Guzman

Predicting wellbeing and housing loss in supportive housing programs: Lessons learned from a longitudinal evaluation
Emily Spence-Almaguer, PhD, Kwynn Gonzalez Pons and Otis Thornton, MDiv

States of emergency: How jurisdictions are re-framing homelessness as a crisis
Amber Roth, MSW, MS, Matt Warfield, MSW, MUP and John Gilvar

Taking the journey together: Increasing access to palliative care for people experiencing homelessness
Angela C Lee, RN, BSN, David Slack, MD and Meg Martin, MSW CPC

The clinical is the political: Talking social justice in treatment settings
Bilqis Rock, LGSW and David Avruch, LCSW-C

The integrative pain management program: Expanding options for chronic pain treatment
Barbara Wismer, MD, MPH and Kristina Leonoudakis-Watts

The pathways into and out of LGBTQ youth homelessness
Amanda Antenucci, LCSW, Lisa Stambolis, CPNP, Eva Fury, Student and Joseph Bonnell, CADC, QMHA

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Lunch

12:00 PM-12:30 PM

Keynote Address: Dr. Paul Harkaway

12:30 PM-1:00 PM

Awards Presentation

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Adapting housing first models for new projects in the midst of an affordable housing shortage
Matthew Mollica, MBA, Lisa Thompson, DNP, PMHNP-BC and John Parvensky, J.D.

Are We Doing Enough to End Homelessness? A Thoughtful Discussion of What is Working and What Remains to be Done
Jeff Olivet, MA, Jim O'Connell, MD, Barbara DiPietro, PhD, Kevin Lindamood, MSW and Wayne Centrone, NMD, MPH

Crucial conversations to empower the underserved: Integrating alcohol, drug and tobacco interventions into primary care.
Kerith Hartmann and Amy Hardy, RN, BSN

Enabling access to hepatitis C cure for people experiencing homelessness
Marguerite Beiser, NP

More than lockers: Chicago's plan to promote health, safety, and connection through storage
Lara Brooks and Ka'Riel Gaiter

State-based strategies for implementing universal health care
Peter Mahr, MD, Samuel Metz, MD and Charlie Swanson, PhD

The personal is political: Liberating consciousness through storytelling
Vanessa Borotz, Tony Simmons, Gary Cobb and Morgan Fritz, PhD

2:00 PM-2:30 PM

Break

2:30 PM-4:00 PM

A team-based approach to reducing HIV viral load in patients experiencing homelessness
Emily Borke, LCSW, Mary Tegger, PA-C, AAHIVS, MA and Angela Kuzma, BA

Consent, dementia, and surrogate decision-making: Ethical challenges in the context of homeless health care
Laura Kaplan-Weisman, MD, Mark D. Fox, MD, PhD, MPH and Ricky Munoz, JD, MSW

Development and implementation of buprenorphine maintenance program in a primary care setting
Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH and Julie Rushkewicz, LCPC, CADC

Housing, not handcuffs: Criminalization of homelessness, constructive alternatives, protecting the human rights of people experiencing homelessness
Eric Tars, JD, Jeff Foreman, JD, MGA, MA, MS and Raymond West, N/A

Improving TB control quality among people experiencing homelessness: New treatments, partnerships & no new disease
Sapna Morris, MD, MBA and Tom Andrews, MBA

Measuring what matters: How can homeless health care providers shape the measurement of our performance?
Rachel Solotaroff, MD, MCR, Mindy Stadtlander, MPH and Eowyn Rieke, MD, MPH

Oral Presentations VI

Results from a NIAAA-NHCHC study: Women’s alcohol, drug, health, mental health risks, implications for improving care
Claudia Davidson, MPH, Christina Stehouwer, PA, MPH and Geraldine Kennedy, APRN

Roundtable: A survey for the primary care concerns of people who have experienced homelessness: Practical introduction
Stefan Kertesz, MD, MSc and Lena Julia P Cardoso

Roundtable: Coordinated entry: Understanding the basics and maximizing opportunities
Sylvia Nelson, MPA

Roundtable: Looking for resources? How hospital community benefit can help you
Doreen Fadus, MEd. and Carrie Harnish, LMSW

Roundtable: Providing palliative care for homeless people facing end of life: Lessons from a VA study
Jacqueline Jones, PhD, BN, RN, FRCNA, FAAN

Roundtable: Sharing lessons from consumer advisory boards
Derek Winbush, n/a

Roundtable: Sharing stories wisely
Amy Grassette, Case manager and Josephine Ensign, ARNP, DrPH

So you want to start a medical respite program? Here's how!
Sarah Ciambrone, MS and Leslie Enzian, MD

Working together to deliver mobile physical-behavioral health integration for the people experiencing chronic homelessness
Dan Meges, MD, Cynthia Vrabel, MD, Dave Buck, MD, MPH, Mark Sperber, MA, LPC-S, LCDC, LMFT-Asssociate, Joseph Benson, NCAB Member, Dr. Katherine Fox Nagel and Andrew Berger

4:30 PM-5:30 PM

Social Justice Rally: Housing is Health Care

5:00 PM-10:00 PM

Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting

7:00 PM-8:00 PM

Networking Reception

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Paula Poundstone Comedy Show

Friday, June 3, 2016

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6:30 AM-8:00 AM

Breakfast

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

Comprehensive opioid safety initiatives and programming
Haven Wheelock, Bachelors of Science in Community Health, Maya Doe-Simkins, MPH and Elizabeth Salisbury-Afshar, MD, MPH

Connecting quality management to passion, change, and advocacy
Matt Bennett, MBA, MA, Bettina Harmon, MDiv and Brooke Bender, MPH

How does evidence influence practice? Understanding trauma from a perspective for consumers, providers, and advocates
Wayne Centrone, NMD, MPH and Ken Kraybill, MSW

How to develop and implement medical-legal partnerships to address housing and other social needs of people experiencing homelessness
Charita McCollers, MSW, LCSWA, Ellen Lawton, JD, Brian D. Johnston, MD, MPH, Madlyn C. Morreale, JD, MPH and Darlene M. Jenkins, DrPH

Navigating the housing arena from public to supportive housing
Alex Lehr, MPH, Liz Buck and Kristine Gonella, MPH

Special session: HCH pioneers explore the past and address the future of HCH
Barbara Conanan, RN, MS, Jim O'Connell, MD, Jean Hochron, MPH, Vincent A Keane, Mdiv, John Parvensky, J.D., Ed Blackburn, MA, Bobby Watts, MPH, MS, CPH, Heidi Nelson, MHSA, Kevin Lindamood, MSW, Jennifer L. Metzler, MPH, Barbara DiPietro, PhD, Gary Cobb and Sharon Brammer, CRNP

Technical Assistance

10:30 AM-11:00 AM

Break

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