Presentations from October’s HSPC Meeting
Our monthly CoC-wide Homeless Services Planning Committee meeting for October featured two informative guest presentations.
Emily Cooper, Chief Housing Officer at the state’s Executive Office of Elder Affairs, gave an overview of a number of senior-focused services, available in our jurisdction, for which many people homeless in Cambridge would be eligible for.
Click for PowerPoint presentation.
Click for a fact sheet covering the PACE, SCO, and Home Care service options.
The Cambridge Public Health Department’s Tali Schiller, Substance Abuse Prevention Coordinator, and Kristin Ward, Lead Epidemiologist, presented practical information on identifying and responding to clients who have overdosed, as well as epidemiological data that illustrate local trends in the demographics and scale of the opioid abuse epidemic.
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Click for an information sheet on resources for people with addiction or substance abuse disorder.
Thank you to Emily, Tali, and Kristin for taking the time to share their expertise on these important issues.