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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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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
Toolkit Motivational Interviewing Self-Appraisal

This tool helps providers to assess their motivational interviewing (MI) skills and practices and includes activities to improve their MI techniques.

Topic
Outreach and Engagment: PATH
Outreach and Engagment: Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
Outreach and Engagment: Street outreach
Outreach and Engagment: Coordinated entry
Outreach and Engagment: Motivational Interviewing
Outreach and Engagment: Point-in-Time Counts
Language
English
Toolkit Guide to Methamphetamine Use, Treatment, and Housing Considerations for People Experiencing Homelessness

This guide explores how service providers can better support people who use methamphetamine in the process of transitioning into and maintaining housing.

Topic
Co-occurring Disorders
Substance Use: Substance use prevention
Substance Use: Substance use treatment
Housing Models: Housing First
Housing Models: Permanent Supportive Housing
Housing Models: Recovery Housing
Housing Navigation: Landlord engagement
Supportive Services: Peer Services / Supports
Integrated Care
Language
English
Spanish
Toolkit Whole-Person Care for People Experiencing Homelessness and Opioid Use Disorder Toolkit: Part I

The Whole-Person Care for People Experiencing Homelessness and Opioid Use Disorder Toolkit provides a framework for supporting recovery and housing stability. Part I of the toolkit, released in August 2021, provides an introduction to homelessness, opioid use disorder, and evidence-based recovery practices such as trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, eliminating stigma, and harm...

Topic
Co-occurring Disorders
Integrated Care
Language
English
Spanish