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  • January 14, 2020

    Health and Housing – A Peer-to-Peer Learning Opportunity for Health Care Leaders

    Affordable Housing | Mental Health & Substance Use | Blog Post | January 2020

    With innovative local partnerships, hospitals can increase access to affordable housing and supportive services for vulnerable patient populations. TAC brought interested institutions together to learn both from subject matter experts and from each other.

  • January 7, 2020

    How Youth Action Boards (YABs) are Partnering with Communities to End Youth Homelessness

    Homelessness | Blog Post | January 2020

    What happens when young people with lived experience bring their expertise and creativity to their communities' efforts to end youth homelessness? We asked Youth Action Boards across the U.S. how they are "making it work." Here's what they said.

  • October 2, 2019

    News, Resources, & Happenings at TAC – October 2019

    Affordable Housing | Mental Health & Substance Use | Blog Post | October 2019

    An international mental health leadership exchange and a learning collaborative on housing and hospitals both offer valuable opportunities for peer-to-peer education.

  • September 4, 2019

    Olmstead at 20 — Using the Vision of Olmstead to Decriminalize Mental Illness

    Olmstead & Community Integration | Blog Post | September 2019

    Thanks to the 1999 Olmstead decision, more people with mental illness now live in integrated, community-based settings instead of psychiatric hospitals or nursing homes. Yet for the many who who continue to be unnecessarily incarcerated, the promise remains unfulfilled.