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A Framework for Health and Housing Partnership During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Key partnership elements for successful health and housing partnerships to address crisis

Year Developed: 2020

Resource Type: Publication.

Primary Audience: Outreach Staff
Secondary Audience: Clinicians

Language(s): English

Developed by: Corporation for Supportive Housing (See other resources developed by this organization).

Resource Summary: Community responses to the COVID-19 pandemic like shelter-in-place, quarantine, testing, and management of strained health resources have elevated the necessity and value of effective health and housing partnerships to address the needs of vulnerable populations. This brief highlights strategies for health centers, housing, and community service providers in leveraging partnerships to address a range of health and housing needs both during, and after the COVID-19 crisis subsides.

Resource Details: Reflecting on Corporation for Supportive Housing’s (CSH’s) Health and Housing Partnership: Strategic Guidance for Health and Housing Partnerships, the four stage process to create effective health and housing partnerships is applicable in the current emergency health environment, but at a more intentional and expedited pace. This brief will discuss key partnership elements like roles, coordination, access, accountability, and sustainability that are the most integral in making the COVID-19 partnerships a success.

Resource Topic: Promising/Best Practices, Special and Vulnerable Populations, Emerging Issues, Telehealth, Health Equity

Resource Subtopic: COVID-19, Emergency Management, Community, Health, and Housing Partnerships, , Access and Equity , Implementation and Operations, Operational Feasibility, Implementation Feasibility.

Keywords: Care Coordination, Partnerships, Housing, Infectious Diseases, Community Engagement, Residents of Public Housing, Outreach.