Human Resources committee  Chronic illness is certainly higher among those who are homeless than those who are housed, especially diabetes and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, which seem to be the two top chronic disease issues that are faced predominately within the homeless population as people age

Human Resources committee  Phoenix Youth Programs for the last number of years, at least nine, hired a nurse, and I had that position for a number of years. I think that offering health care where people are is a very effective way of managing and helping people enter into a journey of self-care. The mobil

Human Resources committee  There are a couple of examples across the country where money has been put toward social enterprise or creating workplace opportunities for people who haven't had much experience in the last little while. So if you take someone who's had a lot of chaos in their lives and previous

Human Resources committee  The experience at the mobile outreach street health program was unique. As I have worked in the community, my experience has been that the government makes some decisions around priorities and then throws out calls for proposals around hepatitis C prevention or specific areas lik

Human Resources committee  That's what I'm talking about. The community is a group of experts, and we're a group of experts on the needs in the community. But rarely is that community consulted about what the needs are and how to equate the funding dollars with the needs.

Human Resources committee  As an example, if you're on needle exchange and you write a proposal to offer some services around hepatitis C prevention, you're also making sure that people have food. You're also probably making sure that someone is linked up with housing. I think there are experts within th

Human Resources committee  I'll just comment briefly on that. In regard to mental health and youth, it's very important for us to be looking at quick and immediate intervention to support not just youth but families. There's been a bit of a shift. A federal study was done on the rates of sexually trans

Human Resources committee  Thank you very much for the opportunity to speak today. I come very humbly, I guess. I became a nurse a number of years ago--maybe twenty. At the time, I learned a lot about nursing and knew nothing about poverty. I started my understanding of that about nine years ago, and sin