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Call for Proposals

Healthcare for the Homeless - Houston and the 4th Annual Texas Street Medicine Symposium are delighted to announce a call for proposals for the 2025 Health and Housing Summit, to be held in Spring 2025.

Important Dates

  • Deadline to Submit: November 22, 2024
  • Notice of Acceptance: January 2025
About the Summit

Through this summit, we strive to create a space where we can all learn from healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, advocates and individuals with lived experiences from homelessness to educate, highlight best practices and illustrate next steps on the interconnections of health and housing in Houston and beyond.

We aim to facilitate conversations and thought leadership founded on these values:

  • As community leaders, we recognize that our position gives us the ability to influence change. It is our responsibility to make decisions that prioritize the well-being of our patients and clients, using our resources thoughtfully to support and strengthen housing stability for all.
  • We value the impact of collaboration. By combining our strengths and resources, we tackle the challenges of homelessness and housing instability more effectively, working together to provide comprehensive support, including healthcare, housing, and social services.
  • We center the voices, leadership, and priorities of those with lived experience by involving them in decision-making and program design. Their insights shape our initiatives, ensuring our work aligns with their needs and fosters genuine partnership in creating effective solutions.

Summit Theme & Submission Topics

2025 Theme- The Places We Heal: Linking Housing and Health for Better Futures

HHH is seeking proposal submissions that cover a wide range of topics that relate to health, housing and street medicine including, but not limited to:

    • Access to Healthcare: Addressing barriers to healthcare, including cost, location, documentation, and stigma, and expanding services through mobile clinics, telehealth, and community outreach.

    • Social Services and Housing Support Integration: Exploring strategies to integrate healthcare with social services and housing services, like case management, employment, and legal support, to meet the holistic needs of housing-unstable populations and improve health outcomes.

    • Policy Issues Surrounding Affordable Housing, Medicaid, and Health Care: Engaging in policy change and advocacy efforts to increase funding, expand affordable housing, and protect the rights of those experiencing homelessness.

    • Health Equity: Addressing disparities in healthcare access and outcomes, particularly among marginalized groups within the housing-unstable populations, such as people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, and those with disabilities.

    • Behavioral and Mental Health, and the Value of Trauma-Informed Healthcare: Providing  integrated care and treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders among homeless populations, often complicated by trauma and chronic stress.

    • Social Determinants of Health: Understanding how factors such as poverty, food insecurity, employment, and social support networks impact the health of housing-unstable populations.

    • Street Medicine Delivery: Managing chronic conditions, implementing harm reduction, treating co-occurring disorders, addressing infectious diseases, coordinating complex care, navigating legal and policy barriers, supporting provider well-being, and building trust with patients.

Submission Details

  • Review session formats
  • Contain a clear title for your abstract
  • Communicate in detail the purpose, methods, results and involvement in your area of practice/work
  • A maximum of 400 words 
  • Note if abstract will involve Street Medicine
  • Must be submitted by November 22, 2024

Speaker Session Format: Prepare for a speaker session lasting either 30 or 45 minutes

A speaker session involves an in-depth exploration of a program or organization’s mission, purpose, and fieldwork. Presentations may feature a variety of engaging formats, utilizing tools such as slide shows, handouts, polls and quizzes, breakout sessions, workshops, and opportunities for feedback.

Questions?

For inquiries, please reach out to:

Jennifer Soto
Community Engagement Specialist
jennifer@homeless-healthcare.org