Street Medicine Institute Trainings and Webinars
SMI's webinar series is aimed at bringing you practical information, training, and discussion on key topics in street medicine.
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Upcoming Trainings
Street Medicine in the ICE Age
Thursday, January 22, 2026
12- 1:30 pm HST / 3- 4:30 pm PST / 6- 7:30 pm EST
Join SMI for a webinar on mitigating the impact of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids on our unsheltered neighbors. Presenters Leilani Stacy and Lisette Carmona will discuss the impact of ICE raids in the United States, strategies for street medicine teams to protect patients, legal rights of immigrants, and advocacy strategies.
Lisette Carmona- Social Work Manager and Clinical Instructor of Family Medicine, USC Street Medicine
Leilani Stacy- Immigrants' Rights Staff Attorney with ACLU of Hawai'i
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This webinar is only presented live. A recording will not be available.
Virtual Book Launch- Street Mental Health Handbook
Thursday, January 29, 2026
11 am- 12 pm HST / 1- 2 pm PST / 4- 5 pm EST
Join us for the launch of the Street Mental Health Handbook, a timely and practice-focused guide by Simon Hatcher, Kim Van Herk, and Liz Frye that brings together lived experience, clinical insight, and frontline wisdom from street-based mental health care. This handbook speaks directly to clinicians, outreach workers, policymakers, and advocates working with people who experience homelessness and profound social exclusion—offering practical tools, ethical frameworks, and real-world strategies grounded in compassion and evidence.
The launch will feature a dynamic panel discussion, bringing an international perspective to the challenges and possibilities of street mental health care, followed by an interactive Q&A with the authors. Whether you work on the streets, in clinics, or in systems shaping care, this event is an opportunity to engage with the ideas behind the book, ask hard questions, and connect with a growing community committed to more humane, effective mental health care.
Attendees will be provided with a discount code and three lucky attendees will be randomly selected to receive a free copy of the Street Mental Health Handbook. The Street Mental Health Handbook is available for purchase here.
Liz Frye MD, MPH- Chair, Board of Directors, Street Medicine Institute
Simon Hatcher, MD- Psychiatrist, Ottawa Inner City Health
Kim Van Herk- Mental Health Team Lead, Ottawa Inner City Health
Street Medicine Institute Student Coalition (SMISC) Spring Research Conference
Saturday, March 7, 2026
9 am- 12 pm PST / 12- 3 pm EST
SMISC is excited to announce and host the inaugural STudent REsearch and EducaTion (STREET) Conference, providing an opportunity for students, residents, and community members to share, learn from each other, and collaborate with others about current research in the street medicine community. All conference activities will occur over Zoom.
Poster and oral presentation submissions are open until 11:59 pm PST on January 18, 2025. SMISC is accepting a broad collection of research (i.e. QI projects, team function and structure, obstacles and solutions, and data based research). Research should be directly related to street medicine and student-led. You must be a student or currently applying to schools to participate in this research conference.
Past Webinars
Executive Order on Homelessness: Implications and Advocacy for People Sleeping Rough in the US- November 6, 2025
President Trump's executive order, "Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets," seeks to increase involuntary commitment of houseless people with mental health and substance use disorders and increase punishment for public drug use, camping, and squatting. The order additionally calls for the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration to stop funding harm reduction and requires recipients of federal funding for homelessness projects to share health data with federal agencies. While many non-profit organizations serving homeless individuals oppose the executive order, other groups applaud the order and hope it will reduce suffering among people who have become homeless due to serious mental illness and substance use problems.
Combining expertise in street medicine, lived experience of homelessness, health care, and civil rights, speakers Joseph Benson, Emily Hills, and Liz Frye will offer a thought-provoking analysis of the executive order's legal, ethical, and health impacts on unsheltered people.
Emily Hills – Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU of Hawai'i
Joseph Benson – Community Health Worker, Healthcare for the Homeless-Houston; President of the Board of Directors, National Health Care for the Homeless Council; Member, Board of Directors, Street Medicine Institute
Liz Frye, MD MPH – street psychiatrist and Chair, Street Medicine Institute Board of Directors
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Medicaid & the Big Beautiful Bill: Implications for Street Medicine in the United States- October 7, 2025
The Big Beautiful Bill (HR1) has passed, bringing major implications for our patients and for the field of street medicine un the US. To help us understand what this means in practice, join us for a Q&A with two national experts:
Andy Schneider – National Medicaid expert and Professor, Georgetown University
Laura Brennan – Senior Policy Manager, National Health Care for the Homeless Council
We’ll discuss:
- What changes to Medicaid are included in the Big Beautiful Bill
- How these changes will impact our patients and our work
- What advocacy options are available now and in the future
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Encampment Sweeps & Street Medicine: Reducing Harm, Protecting Health- March 4, 2025
Join the California Street Medicine Collaborative, USC Street Medicine, and the Street Medicine Institute for a crucial discussion on street medicine and encampment sweeps. This webinar will highlight the release of Mitigating the Health Impacts of Encampment Sweeps in California: A Practice Guide for Street Medicine, offering practical strategies to reduce harm and protect health before, during, and after sweeps.
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