Knowledge & Resources
Search and download a library of information and resources for health professionals and housing specialists.
Featured Article
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.
Read MoreRecent Articles
Explore The Resources
Results
-
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.
- Topic
- Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Housing Models: Recovery Housing; Treatment Models: Residential
- Language
- English; Spanish
-
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
-
Fact Sheet Expanding Harm Reduction through Increased Syringe Access
This resource provides an overview of the core components of SSPs, including options for providing syringe access and dispelling myths about SSPs and harm reduction.
- Topic
- Substance Use; Treatment Models: Harm reduction
- 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
-
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, Emergency Shelter
- Language
- English; Spanish