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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 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 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.

Topic
Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness
Co-occurring Disorders
Substance Use: Substance use prevention
Substance Use: Substance use treatment
Treatment Models : Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT)
Treatment Models : Harm reduction
Supportive Services: Employment
Supportive Services: Mainstream benefits
Supportive Services: Disability benefits
Supportive Services: Peer Services / Supports
Language
English
Spanish
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 Effective Property Management Engagement Strategies

This issue brief covers identifying service providers’ strengths and resources that will appeal to property management, developing an agency “pitch," identifying existing rental industry networks or initiating a network where none exists, and formalizing the property management-provider partnership.

Topic
Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness
Co-occurring Disorders
Housing Models: Housing First
Housing Navigation: Landlord engagement
Housing Navigation: Housing identification
Specialized Partnerships: HUD Continuum of Care (CoC)
Language
English
Spanish