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Health and Homelessness System Integration: Philanthropy’s Role
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Event Description
After over a year in crisis response mode, health and homelessness systems are poised for greater integration than ever before. The covid-19 pandemic demanded new partnerships, innovative approaches, and increased flexibility. Now, with vaccines widely available, we have an opportunity to take a reflective moment. How can we build on the lessons learned over the past year to improve coordination and integration across systems in a more intentional way? Building on last quarter’s SCG Health Funders conversation on Changes to Medi-Cal in a Post-Covid World, join us for a deep dive into the opportunities that have surfaced at the intersection of health and homelessness, and ways philanthropy can play a supportive role going forward.
About Health Funders Group
The SCG Health Funders Group convenes multiple times a year to explore emerging issues in healthcare and health policy through an intersectional approach. The group hosts topic-based and peer-to-peer learning sessions. These facilitated sessions will provide a forum for updates on critical issues, highlights of promising programs and opportunities for collaboration.
Speakers

Al Ballesteros, MBA
President and CEO, JWCH Institute, Inc.

Heidi Behforouz, M.D. SCG Member
Medical Director of Housing for Health, Los Angeles County
At LAC DHS, she has also served as the Medical Director for the Care Connection Program, a primary care clinic-anchored complex care management program that connected community health workers to care management teams within the medical home. She also led the Primary Care Resource Center’s efforts to enhance complex care management team efforts in the medical homes and launch a shared care management platform to facilitate shared work plans and communication between PCMH staff.
She is a board-certified internist who trained at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She is a past recipient of research grants from the National Institutes of Health, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Health Resources and Services Administration and Office of Minority Health and has used this funding to study the impact of community-based complex care interventions in improving the health and wellbeing of vulnerable individuals in urban settings. She currently practices primary care at the STAR clinic in Skid Row, Los Angeles.
She is Founder and past Executive Director of Partners In Health’s Prevention and Access to Care and Treatment (PACT) project in Boston, Massachusetts
Dr. Behforouz continues to provide consultation in complex care management to accountable care organizations, managed care organizations, health departments, and community-based organizations around the country. Dr. Behforouz is committed to the transformation of primary care to better serve the needs of the most vulnerable patients in our communities and has been privileged to champion the role of community health workers in effecting lasting change in our health care delivery system and health of our communities.

Jennifer Vanore SCG Member
President and Chief Operating Officer, UniHealth Foundation

Cheryl Winter SCG Member
Senior Program Manager, CSH