article SAMHSA Learning Community for HUD Rural and Unsheltered Grantees
This Learning Community for HUD Rural and Unsheltered grantees will focus on supporting Continuums of Care (CoCs) in understanding and building cross-system partnerships that address the needs of individuals and families impacted by substance use and/or mental disorders among those experiencing unsheltered homelessness and homelessness in rural areas.
A recording of each session will be added here as they come available.
Session Descriptions:
Session 1: Identifying the whole person care needs of the focus population
This session will remind participants of the core values foundational to delivering evidence-based practices and orient them to available data sources to identify health and behavioral healthcare needs. Additionally, participants will learn more about using qualitative data informed by those with lived and living expertise.
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Session 2: Resource mapping to maximize funding and coordination of services
This session will include an interactive brainstorm of all the systems that CoCs may need to partner with to achieve whole-person care and maximize the impact of combined services to end homelessness and improve health, wellness, and economic opportunities. Examples of resource mapping templates and considerations for addressing barriers to partnership will be shared.
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Session 3: Innovative Partnerships
This session will feature organizations with experience in cross-system partnerships to address the needs of this population in rural areas. This session will close with a panel Q&A about building partnerships across multiple systems.
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Session 4: Increasing Access to Treatment, Harm Reduction, and Recovery Community Organizations
This session will provide tangible ideas for expanding access to treatment and incorporating harm reduction practices in currently available settings. This session will cover topics including systems that offer recovery community support, acute and residential levels of care, securing access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), and overdose prevention. A guest speaker with lived expertise will join this session.