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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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Fact Sheet Treatment, Housing, and Outreach Support for Individuals with Psychotic Disorders

With the appropriate support and treatment, people experiencing homelessness and psychosis can recover to live full and productive lives. This fact sheet provides an overview of psychosis and its treatment options, strategies for outreach and engagement, including tips for de-escalation, and strategies for supporting people with psychotic symptoms in achieving and maintaining housing.

Topic
Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness
Mental Health: Mental health treatment
Housing Models: Housing First
Language
English
Spanish

Fact Sheet Low-Barrier Shelter: Policies into Practice

This guide provides information on the core components of low-barrier shelters. It provides examples of key policies, procedures to support those policies, and ideas for navigating common challenges in implementation.

Topic
Housing Models: Housing First
Housing Models: Emergency Shelter
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.

Focus
Type of Homelessness: Rural homelessness
Type of Homelessness: Unsheltered
Topic
Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness
Mental Health: Mental health treatment
Co-occurring Disorders
Substance Use: Substance use prevention
Substance Use: Substance use treatment
Integrated Care
Language
English
Spanish
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