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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 serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance, co-occurring disorders, achieving and maintaining housing, and treatment and engagement models.

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  • Article Video: 5 Ways to Lower Barriers to Shelter

    This video, produced by the Homeless and Housing Resource Center, explains how homelessness service providers can provide low-barrier access to housing and ensure safety and well-being for staff and residents.

    Topic
    Housing Models: Housing First, Emergency Shelter, Transitional Housing (Bridge Housing); Treatment Models: Harm reduction
    Language
    English
  • Article Video: 5 Ways to Support Someone Who Uses Methamphetamine During the Transition to Housing

    This video, produced by the Homeless and Housing Resource Center, provides five strategies that homelessness service providers can use to support someone who uses methamphetamine to be successful during their transition to housing.

    Topic
    Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Housing Models: Housing First; Treatment Models: Harm reduction
    Language
    English
  • 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 treatment; Housing Models: Housing First; Outreach and Engagment
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • Fact Sheet Low-Barrier Shelter: Policies into Practice

    This guide provides information on the core components of low-barrier shelters. It provides examples of key policies, procedures to support those policies, and ideas for navigating common challenges in implementation.

    Topic
    Housing Models: Housing First, Emergency Shelter
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • Article Learning Community: Trauma-Informed Outreach and Engagement

    In this four-part series, attendees will learn the fundamentals of providing Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) from the lens of working to engage and provide services for people with behavioral health needs who are also experiencing homelessness.

    Topic
    Housing Models: Housing First; Outreach and Engagment: PATH, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Street outreach, Coordinated entry, Motivational Interviewing, Point-in-Time Counts; Supportive Services: Peer Services / Supports; Specialized Partnerships: HUD Continuum of Care (CoC)
    Language
    English