VA announces forced guardianship plans for homeless vets that could put them in mental health facilities - There are nearly ...

A new pilot program from the Department of Justice and Veterans Affairs aims to help homeless veterans by establishing legal ...

The Trump administration will expand the power of government attorneys to initiate court proceedings for veterans “unable to make their own health care decisions.” ...

For more than a decade, federal policy toward veteran homelessness has taken the opposite approach.

Housing—and the lack of access to it—has long been recognized as a critical social determinant of health. The outstanding question for health care leaders is not whether health systems have a role to ...

GO TO KOAT.COM. A NEW STUDY FROM THE NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SHOWS HOMELESS PEOPLE HAVE A HIGHER RISK OF GETTING SICK OR DYING FROM PREVENTABLE DISEASES AND INJURIES. THIS STUDY, FROM 2019 TO ...

While the news was welcomed by Los Angeles County supervisors and public health officials, they agreed that the mortality rate was still too high.

A Tacoma program intended to provide healthcare services and resources to the unhoused is operational after a slow start, but the program is still months away from full capacity. In October 2024, the ...

More than 30 homeless people who are believed to suffer from mental health or substance abuse issues have been taken off the street and placed under “involuntary ” observation through a 4-month-old ...

While street outreach programs have increased over the years, experts say Illinois must push to be proactive, not reactive, ...