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Article New Staff Orientation Guide

This guide compiles introductory resources offered by HHRC into an orientation guide for new professionals. These resources provide introductions to substance use, serious mental illness, achieving and maintaining housing, and treatment and engagement models.

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Toolkit Expanding Peer Support Roles in Homeless Services Delivery: A Toolkit for Service Providers

Peer support is a fast-growing occupation in the behavioral health sector and homeless service organizations can also benefit from its value. This toolkit guides organizations looking to strengthen peers' integration into their workforce. 

Topic
Supportive Services: Peer Services / Supports
Integrated Care
Language
English
Spanish
Toolkit Coordinating Systems of Care to Provide a Comprehensive Behavioral Health Crisis Response to Individuals Experiencing Homelessness

This brief suggests strategies to enhance crisis care through multilevel coordination and describes practical approaches that systems of care can deploy to strengthen collaboration.

Topic
Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness
Mental Health: Mental health treatment
Trauma
Co-occurring Disorders
Integrated Care
Language
English
Spanish
Toolkit Motivational Interviewing Self-Appraisal

This tool helps providers to assess their motivational interviewing (MI) skills and practices and includes activities to improve their MI techniques.

Topic
Outreach and Engagment: PATH
Outreach and Engagment: Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
Outreach and Engagment: Street outreach
Outreach and Engagment: Coordinated entry
Outreach and Engagment: Motivational Interviewing
Outreach and Engagment: Point-in-Time Counts
Language
English
Toolkit Disaster Planning and Response: A Guide to Preparation for Homelessness Response Programs

This guide outlines questions that homelessness response programs should answer as they plan for and respond to natural disasters. The guide places a focus on the needs of people experiencing homelessness with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorder (SUD), or co-occurring disorders (CODs).

Focus
People with Disabilities
Topic
Disaster Preparation, Response, and Recovery
Language
English
Spanish
Toolkit Building Resiliency: A Guide for Supervisors of Housing and Health Professionals

This guide is designed to help supervisors identify approaches for the prevention and intervention of secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, and burnout among staff; enhance staff resiliency; support and celebrate health and well-being; and explore policies, procedures, and activities to promote organizational wellness and well-being.

Topic
Self-Care for Professionals
Language
English
Spanish