We are a student-fueled, inter-professional, interdisciplinary organization dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of the vulnerable in Chicago. Since August 2017, we have been delivering healing to those experiencing unsheltered homelessness. We don't wait for people to come to us. We take the care to them.
"On their Terms, on their turf"
Our Goals:
Goal 1: Understand the circumstances facing our patients and the resources available to them in order to provide the tools to improve health and well-being.
Goal 2: Develop and implement a system to provide health care services and social support to those persons experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
Goal 3: Collect data to evaluate the impact of CSM interventions on the overall health of the homeless population and on the financial wellbeing of the city and state.
Goal 2: Develop and implement a system to provide health care services and social support to those persons experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
Goal 3: Collect data to evaluate the impact of CSM interventions on the overall health of the homeless population and on the financial wellbeing of the city and state.
There are very few things in medicine that bring immense benefit to all three -- patient, practitioner, and bottom line. Street medicine is one of them. |
