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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 serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, co-occurring disorders, achieving and maintaining housing, and treatment and engagement models.

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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
  • 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.

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    Type of Homelessness: Rural homelessness
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    Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Housing Models: Housing First; Treatment Models: Harm reduction
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • Toolkit Recovery Housing: Expanding Access and Supporting Choice

    This brief explains what recovery housing is, why it is an important resource within a CoC, and how housing and homeless service providers can help people find this type of housing.

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    Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Housing Models: Recovery Housing; Treatment Models: Residential
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • 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.

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    Type of Homelessness: Rural homelessness, Unsheltered
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    Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness, Mental health treatment; Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Supportive Services; Specialized Partnerships; Integrated Care; Data
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • 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), serious emotional disturbance (SED), substance use disorder (SUD), or co-occurring disorders (CODs).

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    People with Disabilities
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    Disaster Preparation, Response, and Recovery
    Language
    English; Spanish