Q&A with Director of Housing Services Lawanda Williams, LCSW-C on food, diabetes and homelessness
At this year’s National Health Care for the Homeless Conference, you presented on a panel titled Managing Diabetes and Chronic Disease through a Social Determinants Lens. What does that mean?
IT recently sent out three fake phishing emails to see how staff members would respond to a phishing attack. (You might remember, “phishing” is an attempt by bad guys to steal sensitive information.) Good news: we did really well when compared to other organization's click rate for these emails!
Last winter, Ray Fitzberger got frostbite on his legs and feet. Doctors had to remove three toes on his left foot. Not long after the surgery, Ray was released from the hospital.
Every day, people we know and love undergo surgery to address life-threatening conditions. If they have no place to go, they get discharged back to the streets.
The staff portal is a resource for you. It’s there when you need information, a form or simply want to know what’s new around here.
Your friendly, local communications team is committed to making the portal easy for you to use. To this end, we have done a little reorganizing…and we want to hear whether or not it’s helpful!
What’s changed?
“I didn’t expect to end up here,” Mr. Clarke says, sitting next to his son in an exam room. “Coming here from a different country, you’re supposed to do better, not worse.”
On Monday, April 16, we joined the Baltimore Housing Roundtable, Housing for All, City Councilman John Bullock and City Council President Jack Young to introduce the Fund the Trust Act, a bill that would create a funding stream for the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
Deirdre Hoey, LCSW-C discusses yoga as alternative therapy.
Thanks to the leadership of our National Council team, staff members visited Washington D.C. on April 18 to talk health care, housing and opioids with members of the Maryland delegation.
Staff members made an impressive amount of stops and visited with elected officials…
Every day many of us walk or drive past people on the streets and in crisis. For outreach workers Roy Jackson and Orlando Stevenson, stopping to help is their full-time job.
This month, thanks to a combination of our amazing HR team, staff representatives across the agency and client leaders, we launched a 5-day New Hire Orientation to prepare new staff members for their work ahead. New hires spent the week (outlined below) immersing themselves in all things Health Care for the Homeless—ensuring that they feel welcomed, informed and ready to do their best work!