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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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Article Partner Resources for Supporting the Peer Workforce
This article provides a compilation of resources developed to support a robust and equitable peer workforce.
- Topic
- Mental Health: Mental health treatment; Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Supportive Services: Peer Services / Supports
- Language
- English
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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
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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.
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- Type of Homelessness: Rural homelessness, Unsheltered
- Topic
- Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness, Mental health treatment; Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Supportive Services; Specialized Partnerships; Integrated Care; Data
- Language
- English; Spanish
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Fact Sheet Boosting the Power of Harm Reduction
This resource outlines strategies to build a coordinated system of care for people with substance use disorders who are experiencing homelessness.
- Topic
- Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Treatment Models: Harm reduction; Integrated Care
- Language
- English
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Toolkit Whole-Person Care for People Experiencing Homelessness and Opioid Use Disorder: Toolkit Part 2
This guide focuses on understanding the neurobiology of opioid use disorder (OUD) and the treatment and recovery pathways for OUD. The guide covers best practices for referrals and warm handoffs, as well as assistance in meeting basic needs such as income, food, and mainstream benefits.
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- Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness; Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Treatment Models: Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), Harm reduction; Supportive Services: Employment, Mainstream benefits, Disability benefits, Peer Services / Supports
- Language
- English; Spanish