Guiding Principles of Venice Family Clinic’s Street Medicine Program

The following principles guide our program’s individual and collective work with unsheltered people:

• Do no harm.
• Practice good medicine.
• Use a multidisciplinary team approach.
• Show compassion, grace and humility.
• Instill hope.
• Address tri-morbidity.
• Build trust with consistency, reliability and healthy boundaries.
• Communicate in a direct manner.
• Act with patience and persistence.
• Never give up on anyone.