Harm Reduction Health Hub

HEALTH SERVICES

County Spending Category
1.6 Direct Community Investments
Federal Expenditure Category
Long-term Housing Security: Services for Unhoused Persons
Project Launch Date
04/01/2025
Anticipated End Date
06/30/2026
Interpretation Languages
  • Spanish
Written Languages
  • Spanish

Project Contacts

Indicators & Metrics to Date

  • Number of Jobs Created
    0
  • Number of Residents
    0
  • Supportive Service Encounters
    0
  • Service Encounters to Substance Use Services
    0
  • Inebriation/Post - Overdose Support
    0

Target Populations

  • People with Disabilities
  • Systems Impacted Individuals
  • Systems Involved Individuals
  • Individuals Experiencing Mental Health Disorders
  • Individuals Experiencing Substance Use Disorders
  • People Experiencing Homelessness

Project Description

The Department of Health Services Harm Reduction Division is implementing a Harm Reduction Health Hub in Skid Row in partnership with Department of Health Services Housing for Health’s Safe Services Campus. The Harm Reduction Health Hub will provide any array of services to people who use drugs, who are engaged in sex work, who are justice system involved and who may be experiencing homelessness. These services include drop in space; mental health system navigation; overdose prevention services; substance use system navigation; light touch case management; light touch health care services; medical respite; and methadone treatment. According to the DPH 2024 Homeless Mortality Report for People Experiencing Homelessness, people experiencing homelessness were 1.7 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than the general public. According to the same report, COVID-19 was the fifth leading cause of death among people experiencing homelessness. The Harm Reduction Health Hub will actively address COVID-19 concerns through the provision of vaccines and medical treatment for COVID-19 infections and will connect high-risk individuals to longer-term, more specialty care. The Health Hub population, reflective of the Skid Row community, are likely to be people of color who experience disproportionately poor outcomes from COVID-19.

Goals & Objectives

Goal Description Per the strategies developed during the listening sessions, create employment opportunities for people with lived experience.

Objective Description Requirement of hiring people with lived experience shall be added to contract language.

Activity Description
Indicators
# Type Name Baseline Target
1 Program Outcome Number of Jobs Created 15.00

Goal Description The Harm Reduction Health Hub will be opened and contracted services providers will begin providing services to the community. Services include community observations beds, an outpatient medical clinic and supportive services.

Objective Description Community observation beds, outpatient medical clinic and supportive services will be made available to residents of the Skid Row community.

Activity Description Community observation beds, outpatient medical clinic and supportive services will be made available to residents of the Skid Row community.
Indicators
# Type Name Baseline Target
1 Service Delivery Number of Residents 300.00
1 Service Delivery Supportive Service Encounters 250.00
1 Service Delivery Service Encounters to Substance Use Services 250.00
1 Service Delivery Inebriation/Post - Overdose Support 3000.00