The Roots of Homelessness Run Deep — and So Does Our Response
In “A Pediatric Profile of Homeless Patients in San Jose, California,” published in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, our co-founder Dr. Angela Bymaster helped document what so often comes before life on the street. The study found most respondents endured severely traumatic childhoods — widespread household addiction, psychological abuse, traumatic brain injuries, foster care, and childhood homelessness — all in the county with the nation’s highest median income and highest rate of unsheltered homelessness.
Dr. Angie then turned that research into practice. Her “upstream medicine” answers these findings directly — meeting families before adversity hardens into a lifetime of harm.
Read the full study: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/648779/summary