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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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Toolkit Harm Reduction in Rural Areas: A Workbook for Homeless Response System Staff
The Harm Reduction in Rural Communities workbook is designed to help rural areas implement harm reduction strategies, including Housing First principles. The workbook contains facts, implementation strategies, reflection questions, and links to more information.
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- Type of Homelessness: Rural homelessness
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- Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Housing Models: Housing First; Treatment Models: Harm reduction
- Language
- English; Spanish
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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.
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- Mental Health: Mental health treatment; Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Supportive Services: Peer Services / Supports
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- 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.
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- 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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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.
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- Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness, Mental health treatment; Housing Models: Housing First; Outreach and Engagment
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- 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
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- 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