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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
  • Fact Sheet Identifying and Supporting Behavioral Health Needs in Encampments: Tips for Nonclinical Staff

    Outreach teams observe a wide range of behavioral health conditions. This guide provides tips for nonclinical staff when engaging with individuals living in encampment settings to support their behavioral health needs.

    Focus
    Type of Homelessness: Unsheltered
    Topic
    Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness, Mental health treatment; Outreach and Engagment: Street outreach
    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
  • 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, Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), Street outreach, Coordinated entry, Motivational Interviewing, Point-in-Time Counts
    Language
    English
  • 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: Motivational Interviewing
    Language
    English