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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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Fact Sheet Getting Started with Contingency Management
This fact sheet provides an overview of Contingency Management and information about managing a rewards system, measuring success, and funding the program.
- Topic
- Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Treatment Models: Outpatient (Community based treatment, Counseling)
- Language
- English
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Article Video: Introduction to Xylazine
This video, produced by the Homeless and Housing Resource Center, provides an introduction to Xylazine, its impacts on the body, and strategies for caring for Xylazine wounds and responding to overdose.
- Topic
- Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Treatment Models: Harm reduction
- Language
- English
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Article Serious Illness Conversation Guide for Unhoused or Housing Vulnerable Older Adults
This guide helps a provider understand a person's preferences for medical care to help guide treatment if they get sick or injured.
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- English
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Fact Sheet Harm Reduction Vending Machines: Considerations for Implementation
This fact sheet introduces the evidence-based harm reduction vending machine model, explains how it supports overdose prevention strategies, outlines what supplies to include, and highlights key considerations for implementation.
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- Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Treatment Models: Harm reduction; Specialized Partnerships: Military/VA, Hospital/clinic, Criminal/ Legal
- Language
- English; Spanish
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Article Video: 5 Ways to Lower Barriers to Shelter
This video, produced by the Homeless and Housing Resource Center, explains how homelessness service providers can provide low-barrier access to housing and ensure safety and well-being for staff and residents.
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- Housing Models: Housing First, Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing (Bridge Housing); Treatment Models: Harm reduction
- Language
- English