Jessica Delaney

Jessica Delaney, PMP® is a CalAIM Program Manager for Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plan working to implement housing solutions for Medi-Cal members that have lost their homes in San Diego and Los Angeles. Jessica spent the first decade of her career directly housing homeless families with children, individuals with Severe Mental Illness (SMI), individuals post-incarceration and people living with HIV/AIDS. She later went on to coordinate the City of Redding/Shasta County Continuum of Care (CoC) developing and implementing evidence-based policy solutions to end homelessness for people with complex needs. Jessica expanded her CoC footprint by federally registering new CoC geographies for California’s Tehama, Siskiyou, Trinity, Modoc, Del Norte, Plumas, Lassen and Sierra counties. She has written and established housing programs for victims of domestic violence, low-income seniors, individuals living with SMI and post-release felony defendants under CA AB109 – all of which remain successfully in operation to this day.

Over the past decade Jessica has devoted herself to performance improvement initiatives within California Managed Care Plans. She prioritizes housing in the Medi-Cal space communicating that “homelessness and housing instability is a known cause of toxic stress that leads to chronic illness. The only cure for this medical crisis is housing.”

She is currently supporting the integration of housing systems within Blue Shield that provide evidence-based linkage to improved health outcomes, cost savings and decreased hospital utilization.