Health Focused Street Outreach

What is the health focused street outreach program?

The Alliance for Community Wellness’s Health Focused Street Outreach [HFSO] team strives to prevent new or worsening infectious disease among our Lane County neighbors living unhoused by providing harm reduction supplies, basic needs, direct outpatient healthcare, housing referrals, and referrals to other necessary services via wrap around case management. The team includes four Street Outreach Specialists, two Community Health Workers, one Manager, one Nurse Practitioner, and one LPN. HIV Alliance’s Health Focused Street Outreach Program collaborates with the Human Services Commission, City of Springfield and Lane County in the delivery of our services.

What are the goals of the project?

The goals for this project are to:

• improve access to healthcare services
• decrease reliance on emergency departments and decrease emergency room visits
• improve health outcomes following release from emergency departments and prevent revisit
• prevent infections and serious illnesses
• improve health outcomes related to existing illnesses/disorders
• prevent and decrease risk of death
• increase access to housing
• reduce health and other disparities that impact unhoused people in our community broadly

Who do we serve?

HFSO is contracted to serve anyone living unhoused in Lane County, Oregon. HFSO currently provides services to individuals living in places not meant for human habitation in Eugene, individuals living in emergency shelters such as the St. Vincent de Paul Safe Sleep Sites, and are building ties with other providers in surrounding cities. If you are a non-profit representative or lane county community member who would like to bring our services to your area, please contact HFSO Manager Terri Hsieh via our main office phone at (541) 342-5088.

What do we provide?

• Front Door Assessments (for the Lane County Centralized Wait List)
• OHP and other health insurance benefit enrollment assistance
• Survival supplies (tents, tarps, sleeping bags, canned heat, cook stoves, clothes, hygiene supplies, and laundry gift cards)
• Harm reduction supplies (safe injection kits, clean needles, safe snort kits)
• Testing for HIV/HCV/STI’s
• Pregnancy tests
• Food, drinks, and clothing
• Linkage to Hepatitis C case management

*All services are contingent upon enrollment in the HFSO program with the exception of Harm Reduction Supplies and Hepatitis C case management.

Are you or a friend in need of our services?

Anyone living unhoused can be referred to us by filling our referral form. After completing this form, please e-mail it to thsieh@allianceor.org or mail it to the Alliance Care of: Terri Hsieh. Referral forms can also be filled out in person at our Eugene office M-F from 10AM-2PM.

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