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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 Xylazine Basics: Overdose Prevention, Harm Reduction, and Wound Care

This document provides information on xylazine, a non-opioid veterinary tranquilizer used as an additive in illicit drug supplies, notably in combination with heroin and fentanyl.

Topic
Co-occurring Disorders
Substance Use: Substance use treatment
Treatment Models : Harm reduction
Language
English
Spanish

Fact Sheet Boosting the Power of Harm Reduction

This resource outlines strategies to build a coordinated and culturally responsive system of care for people with substance use disorders who are experiencing homelessness.

Focus
Racial Equity: African- American/ Black
Racial Equity: Hispanic/Latino/Latinx
Racial Equity: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI)
Racial Equity: American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN)
Topic
Substance Use: Substance use prevention
Substance Use: Substance use treatment
Specialized Partnerships: Military/VA
Specialized Partnerships: Hospital/clinic
Specialized Partnerships: Education
Specialized Partnerships: Criminal/ Legal: Discharge planning
Specialized Partnerships: Criminal/ Legal: Re-entry
Specialized Partnerships: Faith-based
Specialized Partnerships: HUD Continuum of Care (CoC)
Specialized Partnerships: Tribal Communities
Language
English

Fact Sheet Three Homes: Reflections and Worksheet

This resource describes and invites reflections upon the concepts around three homes that we reside in: our body, where we live, and our community.

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