The Health Trust

Housing services:provides financial support, case management, housing navigation, and other support services clients need to remain stably housed. The health trust specializes in housing services for people living with hiv/aids, people who have experienced chronic homelessness, and families with children ages 0-5 who are at-risk of becoming homeless. The health trust recognizes stable housing is a social determinant of health, and staff provide intensive case management services through rapid rehousing, permanent supportive housing, and rental assistance administration. Housing services reaches more than 710 individuals, of which 182 are for individuals living with hiv/aids. (continue on sch o) specific services include:the housing plus project ("hpp") - screens and assesses individuals living with hiv/aids who are at risk of losing housing due to financial hardship, and provides support services to eligible clients to prevent deterioration of health. Clients receive short-term financial assistance and case management services. In 2024, hpp served 79 individuals.housing for health ("hfh") program - assists individuals living with hiv/aids and survivors of intimate partner abuse who are at risk of homelessness. Funding received from the santa clara county office of supportive housing and city of san jose helps clients maintain their permanent supportive housing (psh) status through case management, housing inspections, service linkages, and recertifications. In 2024, hfh served 118 clients.coordinated care project ("ccp") - serves individuals who have experienced chronic homelessness, providing case management as clients enter into and live in permanent supportive housing units. Some clients receive support with managing behavioral health matters, hiv/aids, and/or criminal justice involvement. In 2024, the health trust served 196 clients residing at "scattered permanent supportive housing sites'' across santa clara county.enhanced care management ("ecm") and community supports ("cs") - are covered services under california advancing and innovating medi-cal (calaim), a multi-year initiative by the department of health care services (dhcs) to improve the quality of life and health outcomes of medi-cal members. The initiative focuses on implementing a broad delivery system, program, and payment reform across the medi-cal program. The goal is to provide non-clinical interventions focused on a whole-person care approach that target social determinants of health to reduce health disparities and inequities. The health trust continues to contract with santa clara county's two medi-cal managed care plans to provide enhanced care management (ecm) and community support (cs) services to improve quality of life for medi-cal members. In 2024, the health trust provided ecm services to 156 clients and cs to 165 clients.

Chronic disease services:provides community-based, chronic disease prevention and management resources to individuals living with complex health conditions.hiv/aids services - the health trust is the largest non-medical hiv/aids program in santa clara county, providing a variety of services to low-income santa clara county residents living with hiv/aids. These services include medical and non-medical case management, care coordination, and food assistance - serving more than 690 low-income clients. During q4 of 2024, 85% of clients on highly active antiretroviral therapy had undetectable hiv viral (continue on sch o) loads (compared to 65% nationally and 64.7% in california for 2022), and 76% of clients engaged in medical care.