Safe Haven Clinic Collective
How It Works
The Safe Haven Clinic Collective is supported by the Safe Haven Clinic Institute (SHCI) and is where the operations happen. This highly collaborative development work is centered around a core emphasis on quality and excellence through accreditation and standardization, with 4 pillars of population focus being environmental health, reentry from incarceration, elders, and youth in 4 locations across California.
Current & Prospective Projects
Environmental Health
Healthy People require Healthy Environments and vice versa. No where is environmental and human health more entwined then around waterways. Creeks and Rivers are treasured by civilization and are common locations for homeless encampments. Wise innovation is needed to solve for the environmental health of rivers and creeks that have become homeless encampments. Healing the Rivers through conservation efforts goes hand in hand with healing the people who have come to live unhoused along the waterways.
Meanwhile, Climate Change is escalating fluctuations in waterways. When rivers dry up and then flood it creates crisis for the people who live in poverty in these waterway encampments, often creating emergency situations. Transitions to stable housing are the ultimate need and SHCI wants to learn more about how to make those transitions from waterways to stable housing healthier and more successful.
Pilot Project:
River Health- Short Documentary film “The Hill”
The SHCI River Health project focuses on studying homeless encampments in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties: aiming to aid conservation of the waterways in these Counties while aiding in the safe transition of people living along the rivers and creeks to stable and safe housing. Our first project, through the Safe Haven Clinic Collective is the short documentary film “The Hill” about the Creekside Encampment, which was the largest encampment in Santa Barbara County until it was “resolved” in May 2024 and about the La Posada “sleeping shed” shelter village that was built alongside it.
Climate Justice
Rivers are central to civilization and are common locations for encampments. Climate Change causes rivers to dry up and then flood creating crisis for the health of the rivers and for the people who have come to live in poverty and often without access to care in these waterways. Healing the Rivers must include healing the people who have come to live in the river beds.
Pilot Project:
River Health
The SHCI River Health project focuses on homeless encampments in Ventura County: aiding conservation of the Ventura and Santa Clara rivers and the safe transition of people living in the rivers to housing.
Prospective Projects
Reentry from Incarceration
When people are incarcerated in California they lose their medical insurance and are released to the County where they were arrested. These structural conditions lead to people who have served their time, being released into homelessness, illness and even death.
Elders
Increasingly, elders are becoming homeless and our current systems of homeless care, which is designed for the young, struggle to find ways to help.
Youth
No youth should ever experience homelessness, they should grow up with care and resources.
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