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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 Identifying and Supporting Behavioral Health Needs in Encampments: Tips for Nonclinical Staff

    Outreach teams observe a wide range of behavioral health conditions. This guide provides tips for nonclinical staff when engaging with individuals living in encampment settings to support their behavioral health needs.

    Focus
    Type of Homelessness: Unsheltered
    Topic
    Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness, Mental health treatment; Outreach and Engagment: Street outreach
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • 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 treatment; Housing Models: Housing First; Outreach and Engagment
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • Toolkit Effective Property Management Engagement Strategies

    This issue brief covers identifying service providers’ strengths and resources that will appeal to property management, developing an agency “pitch," identifying existing rental industry networks or initiating a network where none exists, and formalizing the property management-provider partnership.

    Topic
    Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness; Co-occurring Disorders; Housing Models: Housing First; Housing Navigation: Landlord engagement, Housing identification; Specialized Partnerships: HUD Continuum of Care (CoC)
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • Toolkit Helping Individuals Experiencing Homelessness Obtain Identification Documents

    This resource provides helpful guidance on helping individuals who are experiencing homelessness obtain identification documents.

    Topic
    Housing Navigation: Housing identification; Outreach and Engagment: Street outreach
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • Toolkit Applying New COVID-19-Related Funding to Address the Housing Needs of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorders, and Co-occurring Disorders

    This paper highlights newly available federal funds that can be utilized for housing and paired with supportive services funding for individuals who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and who have a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbances, or co-occurring disorders. The paper also notes several ways for state and local leaders to promote cross-system partnerships that pair...

    Focus
    Laws/Acts/Regulations: CARES Act
    Topic
    Co-occurring Disorders; Housing Models: Housing First; Housing Navigation: Housing identification; Specialized Partnerships: HUD Continuum of Care (CoC)
    Language
    English; Spanish