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About

Our Mission

The Safe Haven Clinic Institute (SHCI) is a learning organization that supports healthcare ecosystems and community benefit organizations to improve the health of populations experiencing homelessness and/or substance use disorder, with collaboration, empathy, diversity,  equity and inclusivity, by providing capacity building, technical assistance and education.

Our Vision

The Safe Haven Clinic Institute has developed a utopian design within reach called the Safe Haven Clinic which provides a framework for imagining solutions for the co-occurring epidemics of homelessness and substance use disorder. The Safe Have Clinic model integrates a very low barrier to entry sobering center, medical respite with addiction and recuperative services, pharmacy and street medicine clinic under one roof with 24/7 nursing and up to a 2- week length of stay.

SHCI aspires to achieve improved health of populations experiencing homelessness and/or substance use disorder through a local, regional and large-scale healthcare approach aimed at improving and fortifying healthcare ecosystems including relieving avoidable burdens on the acute systems of care such as jails, and hospitals.

Guiding Principles

Is paramount to our internal and external efforts, and requires four foundational elements in our work and in the communities we support.

Those elements are:

  1. Designing planning processes that are inclusive of and support, empower, and promote people most directly impacted by homelessness and addiction
  2. Developing leadership and decision-making bodies that are reflective of communities
  3. Targeting resources to those who need them most
  4. Ensuring equitable access to services, treatment, and resources

In our structure and methodology better allows us to share information and support community efforts in an equitable and impactful way.

We must listen to and consider critiques, new information, and changing circumstances on an ongoing basis, and be willing to adjust the Safe Haven Clinic model and our methods in response to new evidence and perspectives.

To break down silos within and across systems is critical to build the collaboration and coordination required to achieve our Vision.

About our work and the efforts we support are crucial to hold ourselves accountable for the information we share and the projects we assist.

Is imperative to create community-based health systems that meet the needs of each individual experiencing homelessness and addiction.

Achieving our vision requires work directed not only at improving and expanding care provision for people experiencing homelessness and addiction, but also at changing policies that restrict the resources available to support marginalized and vulnerable people.

Is paramount to our internal and external efforts, and requires four foundational elements in our work and in the communities we support.

Autonomy – Clients/Patients must have autonomy of thought, intention, and action when making decisions regarding their health care. Decision-making processes must be free of coercion and patients must understand all risks and benefits, as well as the likelihood of success, of any treatment offered to make a fully informed decision about their health care.

Justice – The burdens and benefits of new or experimental treatments must be distributed equally among all groups in society. Healthcare providers must consider four key areas when evaluating whether the provision of health care is just: equitable distribution of scarce resources, competing needs, rights and obligations, and potential conflicts with established legislation.

Beneficence – Health care must be provided with the intention of doing good for the patient involved. Health care providers must develop and maintain skills and knowledge, consider individual circumstances of all patients, and strive for net benefit.

Non-maleficence – Health care services and treatment must not harm the patient involved or others in society.

Who We Are

We are a multidisciplinary team of experts working toward innovations to end homelessness and addiction through capacity building, technical assistance and education. Our work has been supported by the Arlene and Michael Rosen Foundation from 2019-21. In 2022, we proudly thanked and welcomed our 2 new sponsors: the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) and the Pisacano Leadership Foundation of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM).  We became a non-profit corporation of the State of California in 2021 and in summer of 2022 we filed for federal 501c3 status which is now pending.

Leadership

Alfred L. Glover

DPM, FACFAS
Executive Director

al@safehavenclinics.com

Dr. Glover is a founding board member of the Safe Haven Clinic Institute (SHCI) since this Community Benefit Organization’s beginnings in Spring 2022. He became the founding Executive Director of SHCI in December 2022.

Dr. Glover is an Ordained Deacon at West Angeles Church of God in Christ since March 29 2009, in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Glover completed the prestigious California Health Care Foundation/UCSF Health Care Leadership Fellowship in 2010. He has served as a mentor “Pod Advisor” for CHCF Fellowship Cohorts from 2018-2022. He is a graduate of the African American Board Leadership Institute with certification in Board Leadership in 2020. Dr. Glover has also completed certification in professional Coaching.

Dr. Glover has been a practicing Podiatrist since he graduated in 1985 from the Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine and starting early in his career he has held multiple Medical Leadership roles. Dr. Glover served from 1987-1991 as Lieutenant Commander in the United States Navy where he was appointed Head of the Department of Podiatry, Corpus Christi Naval Hospital. In this role he was given responsibilities in financial and project management, strategic planning, and quality assurance. He was an Appointed Examiner for the American Board of Podiatric Surgery from 1995-2002 and served as an Expert Witness for Podiatric Surgical Malpractice Cases from 1995-2001.

As a Board Certified Podiatrist in Foot and Ankle Surgery, Dr. Glover has many years of extensive clinical experience and affiliations with Los Angeles clinics and Hospitals such as St. Vincent Medical Center, the Veterans Administration Hospital, and Good Samaritan Medical Center. Additionally, he has practiced with the United States Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton. His extensive background and experience gives him excellent academic, clinical and practical expertise including with graduate podiatric education (residency training). Dr. Glover was the Director of the Podiatry Residency program (PMS-36) at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center from 2003- 2008.

Noemi “Mimi” Doohan

MD, PhD, MPH
Founder/Director
mimi@safehavenclinics.com

Mimi is a practicing family physician and public health professional. She developed the SHCI model in 2018, centered around capacity building, education and technical assistance, as her California Health Improvement Project in Cohort 18 of the California Health Care Foundation’s (CHCF) Health Care Leadership fellowship. She has founded Street Medicine programs in Santa Barbara (2005) and Ukiah (2015), CA. She works as a hospitalist, primary care doctor and public health professional. PhD in molecular biology from University of California Santa Barbara, MD from Stanford University, Family Medicine training at Contra Costa Regional Medical Center in Martinez California, MPH from University Massachusetts Amherst.
Learn more about Mimi by reading our Founder’s Story or View Mimi’s CV Here.

Ellen Badley

Secretary/Director

Bio coming soon.

What We Offer

We offer communities education about the principles and core components of the Safe Haven Clinic model, as well as support, coalition building through the Safe Haven Clinic Collective, and technical expertise to assist with incorporating those principles and components into their health and homelessness response systems, all while honoring each community’s unique needs. This work is centered around a core emphasis on excellence through accreditation and standardization, with 4 pillars of population focus being climate justice, reentry from incarceration, elders and youth. We promote a human centered design approach for innovations that create utopian designs within reach to end the futile cycles of homelessness

Safe Haven Clinic Collective
Projects

Friends Of The Safe Haven Clinic Institute

Gillian Morshedi

JD
Staff Attorney, Homebase

Gillian’s primary areas of focus and expertise are housing and healthcare coordination and integration, strategic planning, and facilitation.

Jean Field

JD
Deputy Director, Homebase

Jean provides technical assistance, strategic planning, and project management expertise on initiatives aimed at ending homelessness.

Shannon Smith-Bernardin

PhD, RN, CNL
President & Co-Founder, National Sobering Collaborative

Shannon has worked in homeless health care since 2006, with expertise in street health outreach teams, medical respite, and sobering centers for acutely intoxicated adults. She is also affiliated with UCSF Nursing and Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.

Jim Withers

MD
Director of Street Medicine, Street Medicine Institute

Dr. Jim Withers offers a background in the principles of reality-based medical and social care in street medicine. He has established multiple efforts and non-profit organizations where he continues to foster collaboration in the care of those sleeping on the streets.

Are You Imagining A Fully Integrated Clinical Solution For Homelessness & Addiction In Your Community?

Create a Safe Haven Clinic and improve the quality of care for people experiencing homelessness and addiction.

Join the Collective, join the movement!

Are You Imagining A Fully Integrated Clinical Solution For Homelessness & Addiction In Your Community?

Create a Safe Haven Clinic and improve the quality of care for people experiencing homelessness and addiction.

Join the Collective, join the movement!

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