Street Medicine Interventions for People with HIV who are Unsheltered
Street Medicine Interventions for People with HIV Who are Unsheltered is a four-year (2025-2029) national initiative to implement, evaluate, sustain, and disseminate street medicine interventions that effectively respond to the needs of people with HIV who are unsheltered. For this initiative, street medicine is the provision of health care and services in unsheltered environments (e.g., on streets, under bridges, in wooded areas, and other public or open space) to people with HIV who are out of care or not consistently engaged in care and unstably housed and/or unsheltered.
Funding
Street Medicine Interventions for People with HIV Who are Unsheltered is a Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) HIV/AIDS (HAB) Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program (RWHAP) Part F Special Projects of National Significance (SPNS) Program.
Project Partners
Capacity Building Provider (CBP): The Fenway Institute, Fenway Health is leading the CBP in partnership with the National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the University of Southern California.
Evaluation Provider (EP): University of Massachusetts Lowell is leading the EP in partnership with JSI Research and Training Institute, Boston University, and University of Nevada Reno.
Demonstration Sites: The following RWHAP recipient sites are adapting and implementing street medicine for people with HIV.
- Abounding Prosperity; Dallas, TX
- Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center; New Haven, CT
- County of Alameda; Oakland, CA
- County of Sacramento; Sacramento, CA
- Indiana University; Bloomington, IN
- JWCH Institute; Commerce, CA
- North Jersey Community Research Initiative; Newark, NJ
- John’s Community Health; Los Angeles, CA
- University of Nebraska Medical Center; Omaha, NE
Objectives
- Build capacity of demonstration sites to effectively respond to the health care needs of people with HIV who are unsheltered.
- Achieve successful uptake and sustainability of adapted and implemented interventions by RWHAP recipient staff and clients.
- Conduct a multi-site evaluation grounded in implementation science across demonstration sites. The evaluation will assess barriers and facilitators to implementation, implementation strategies, cost, and client and services outcomes.
- Develop and disseminate user-friendly, multimedia implementation materials that will serve as tools for other RWHAP settings to replicate street medicine interventions.
- Use the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Place of Service Codes that reflect place where services are rendered.
Dissemination Resources and Training
Resources will be posted here as they become available.
Questions?
For assistance, please email us at [email protected].
CBP Staff
- Alex S. Keuroghlian, MD, MPH
Principal Investigator - Milo Dorfman, MS
Project Director - Gavin Granitto
Project Manager - Ashley Deñó
Project Coordinator - Emma Walsh
Program Assistant - Hilary Goldhammer, SM
Director of Curriculum and Dissemination - Sarah Mitnick, MBA
Associate Director - Ken Mayer, MD
Director of HIV Interventions