Street Mental Health Conference 2027
Innovating and Integrating Care Within Community. Two days of workshops, conversations, and connection with the people building street-based mental health care across the country.
Call for Poster Abstracts
We welcome poster abstracts from clinicians, researchers, outreach workers, peer specialists, policy leaders, students, and community partners. Poster abstracts may highlight research findings, clinical innovations, community-based programs, case experiences, policy initiatives, quality improvement projects, or other work relevant to street mental health and the care of people experiencing homelessness. We especially encourage interdisciplinary, community-partnered submissions and submissions led by people with lived experience.
Deadline: Friday, October 30, 2026, at 11:59 PM PT.
Registration and the full schedule are coming soon. Email us to be notified when registration opens.
Call for sessions is now closed
Thank you to everyone who submitted a proposal for the 2027 Street Mental Health Conference across both rounds of the call for sessions — we heard from clinicians, researchers, outreach workers, peer specialists, policy leaders, students, and community partners nationwide and abroad. We appreciate everyone's submissions.
We anticipate responding to proposed sessions by early November.
Innovating and integrating care within community
Street-based mental health care is shaped by the realities of place, the strength of community relationships, and the ability of systems to collaborate. The 2027 theme weaves together three commitments:
Rooted in community
Deep, trust-based engagement grounded in the neighborhoods and communities where care happens.
Integrated across sectors
Cross-sector care spanning psychiatry, primary care, peers, harm reduction, housing, and legal support.
Facing today, imagining tomorrow
A dual focus on the clinical, ethical, and structural challenges of today — and on designing more responsive, connected systems for the future.
Learn from local and national expertise
Host City Day
Learn from the experts building systems of field-based mental health care in Los Angeles. Understand how local systemic and policy factors in California support or impede street-based care. Local teams may provide limited opportunities for ride-alongs or site visits.
Traditional Day
A keynote address, plenary sessions, workshops and small-group sessions, and poster presentations. The program committee will especially welcome peer-led, interdisciplinary, community-partnered, and cross-system proposals.
The detailed agenda will be published here when finalized.
Building on a successful first year
The inaugural conference — then called the Street Psychiatry Conference — was held in New York City in July 2025, hosted by Janian Medical Care/CUCS. It sold out rapidly at 225 registrants, bringing together more than 150 clinicians, peers, medical students, and program leaders for person-centered, street-based psychiatric care.
Its new name reflects what the field really looks like: an interdisciplinary community, across credentials, united by the work. Read more about the Coalition.
Help bring the field together
Partnering with the Street Mental Health Conference puts your organization in front of the clinicians, program leaders, and systems shaping street-based care nationwide — and directly supports scholarship for voices with lived experience of homelessness.
- Primary sponsorships at various levels, and opportunities to support meals, breaks, breakout rooms, and valued attendees who may not be able to afford registration.
Please note: the conference is unable to accept financial contributions from for-profit companies or organizations.
The Street Medicine Institute is a registered 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity (EIN 94-3489183), and contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.
Host city partner
LM Care Strategies, a consulting organization formed by clinicians with pioneering experience in street psychiatry and assertive community engagement models.
A hotel in downtown Los Angeles
The conference will be held at a hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Venue and travel details will be announced with registration.
Conference planning team
A national, trainee-led team working in collaboration with the Coalition's Executive Committee.
See you in Los Angeles
Questions about the conference, sessions, or partnership? We'd love to hear from you.