The Health of Homeless Women: Information for State Maternal and Child Health Programs

The Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant acute versus chronic homelessness, and to include the rural program (Title V of the Social Security Act) provides leadership homeless as well as those in urban areas, where the homeless to both the public and private sector to build the infrastructure tend to congregate in order to obtain social services. Further, for health care strategies addressing the needs of all mothers it is also important to recognize the numbers of those at-risk and children in the Nation, particularly low-income and other for becoming homeless: families who live doubled-up with vulnerable isolated populations with limited access to health relatives or friends, or in their cars, who have low incomes and care. One population for which it is particularly challenging to small to non-existent savings. provide health care is homeless women. The number of homeless women and families continues to increase, and the Given these caveats, estimates of the number of homeless importance of developing strategies to reach these women (and women and/or families are available in each state’s respective children) becomes even more critical. Consolidated Plan, prepared every five years for the U.S.