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This guide compiles introductory resources offered by HHRC into an orientation guide for new professionals. These resources provide introductions to serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, co-occurring disorders, achieving and maintaining housing, and treatment and engagement models.
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Toolkit Harm Reduction in Rural Areas: A Workbook for Homeless Response System Staff
The Harm Reduction in Rural Communities workbook is designed to help rural areas implement harm reduction strategies, including Housing First principles. The workbook contains facts, implementation strategies, reflection questions, and links to more information.
- Focus
- Type of Homelessness: Rural homelessness
- Topic
- Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Housing Models: Housing First; Treatment Models: Harm reduction
- Language
- English; Spanish
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Toolkit Eviction Prevention: A Toolkit for Tenants and Service Providers
This Toolkit outlines strategies for supporting people with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders living in community-based low-income housing to prevent eviction.
- Topic
- Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness; Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use; Housing Models: Diversion/Problem-solving, Eviction Prevention; Housing Navigation: Landlord engagement; Supportive Services
- Language
- English; Spanish
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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
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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 Emotional Disturbance, Serious Mental Illness, Mental health treatment; Trauma; Co-occurring Disorders; Integrated Care
- Language
- English; Spanish
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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: Motivational Interviewing
- Language
- English