Learn at your own pace
Learn at your own pace with courses covering health, wellness, community health, careers, and more.
At Health Matters Clinic, we create opportunities to learn about health, build practical skills, explore new interests and careers, have honest conversations, and better understand the issues affecting our communities.
From courses and training to podcasts, articles, and research, you'll find information and resources to support your health and well-being, build your knowledge, and help you care for yourself and others.
Learn with us. Grow with us. Help us create healthier communities.
Find what you're looking for
Start wherever you are.
You might be here to learn something new, find support for your well-being, explore a career, build a skill, or simply understand an issue a little better.
Build practical skills
Build practical skills through HMC training, workshops, and professional learning experiences. Looking for training for your team or organization? We can help with that too.
Listen to the conversation
Real conversations about health and wellness, including the parts of life that don't always get talked about.
Read something worth your time
Read about health, well-being, community, and the ideas and experiences shaping our work.
See the work itself
See what we're learning through our programs, community work, and research.
Learning for wherever you are
There isn't one right way to learn.
Sometimes you're looking for a quick answer. Sometimes you want to go deeper.
You may be exploring something for yourself, building skills for work, preparing for a career, or looking for information you can share with someone you care about.
That's why you'll find different ways to learn here.
Courses
Take a course.
Work through something properly, at whatever pace your week allows.
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Listen to a conversation.
Hear people talk honestly about the parts of life that shape their health.
Articles
Read an article.
Short enough for a break, useful enough to pass on to somebody else.
Research
Explore the research.
Read what our own programs found, in the reports themselves.
Training
Join a training.
Learn with other people, led by people, around the skills your work needs.
Find what works for you.
Courses + learning programs
Learn something you can use.
Our courses and learning programs cover health, wellness, community health, health careers, and other topics connected to our work.
Some are designed to help you explore a new area. Others help you build practical skills or continue developing professionally.
Courses and program details, including what's included and how to get started, are available through the HMC Hub.
What the courses cover
- Health and wellness
- Community health
- Health careers and what each one asks for
- Practical skills you can use straight away
- Continuing professional development
Training
Bring learning to your work.
HMC provides training for professionals, organizations, community groups, and others who want to build their knowledge and skills.
Our training grows out of the work we do in communities. Topics may include community health, mental wellness, health education, facilitation, workforce development, and other areas connected to our programs.
Looking for something specific? Tell us what you're working on and who you're trying to reach.
Topics may include
- Community health
- Mental wellness
- Health education
- Facilitation
- Workforce development
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There's always more to the story.
UNBOXED is our wellness conversation series exploring the many parts of life that shape how we feel, function, and connect.
Mental health. Relationships. Work. Money. Physical health. Faith. Identity. Purpose.
Listen to conversations that make space for different experiences, honest questions, and perspectives you may not hear every day.
Articles + stories
Take a little time for yourself.
Our articles cover health and well-being, practical information, community issues, and the experiences behind the work we do.
You'll find things you can use right away, along with stories and perspectives that may give you something new to think about.
Research + reports
See what we're learning.
Our programs raise questions. Our communities help us understand them. Our research helps us look closer.
We share findings, reports, evaluations, and other work from across Health Matters Clinic so you can see what we're learning and how it informs our work.
Explore the research, ask questions, and use what you find.
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February 2025 · 21 pages
Healthcare Access on Skid Row
A survey of healthcare access among people living on Skid Row: what coverage they hold, what stops them using it, and where care breaks down. Reviewed as exempt by the UCLA Institutional Review Board.
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2024 · Street medicine
OraQuick HIV Self-Test Distribution
What happened when HIV self-tests were handed out on the street rather than offered in a clinic, and what that says about reaching people testing has been missing.
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January 2025 · Disaster response
LA Wildfire Relief Response
What HMC did during the January 2025 wildfires, what people needed, and what a community organization can and cannot do inside a disaster.
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Unstoppable · Final report
The Unstoppable Workshop
The full report behind the Unstoppable curriculum: what the workshop does, who came, and what participants said changed for them.
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Unstoppable · Companion guide
Digital Companion Guide
The workbook that goes with the Unstoppable workshop, written so somebody can use it on their own or run it with a group.
Why education is part of health
Health isn't only about what happens in a doctor's office.
Having information you can understand matters. Knowing where to find help matters. Having the skills to care for yourself or support someone else matters too.
Education can help make those things easier to access.
It's one more way we work to break down barriers to health and create more opportunities for people to live their healthiest lives.
Helping + Healing. That's what we're here for.
Learning doesn't have to stop here
Found something useful?
Keep exploring Health Matters Clinic. Use what you learn. Share it with someone who needs it. Come back when you have another question.
And if you're interested in learning with us in a bigger way, there are opportunities to take a course, join a training, volunteer, partner with HMC, or get involved in the work happening across our communities.