Under CalAIM, California’s initiative to transform Medicaid within the state, organizations are partnering to provide services that address the root causes of illness for people with complex health and social needs, including homelessness. Follow Shawn’s journey from 10 years of homelessness and repeated emergency department visits to stable housing and restored health. Learn how a cross-sector partnership in Orange County created a system of care that combines housing and health care services for individuals like Shawn.

Developed and produced by the California Health Care Foundation.

See also a companion profile, Connecting People in Recuperative Care to Health and Housing Resources: Lessons from Orange County, that explores lessons from the Orange County partnership to create an effective pathway to housing for people experiencing homelessness who are receiving recuperative care.