Homeless Health Care Los Angeles

Client Engagement Navigation Services (CENS) staff conducts substance use assessments and provides referrals to treatment options throughout Los Angeles County. Individuals who are assessed are not only provided placement referrals for drug/alcohol, mental health, and health treatment but are also given referrals to wrap around services including emergency housing, permanent housing and other social services.

The Center for Harm Reduction (CHR) offers the full range of harm reduction services for people who use drugs including syringe exchange, safer drug use education and supplies, fentanyl and xylazine test stripes, and overdose prevention and reversal education and materials that minimize the risk of infectious disease and soft tissue infections (STIs). The Center also provides low threshold medical and behavioral health services including physical exams, wound care, Medication Assisted Treatment, psychiatric care, mental health therapy, and overdose response services such as the distribution of Naloxone and a street-based Overdose Response Team which canvases Skid Row 7 days / week in vehicles customized for frontline overdose response and administration of concentrated oxygen to prevent overdose occurrence and death. See Schedule O for further details.