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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.
- Focus
- Type of Homelessness: Rural homelessness
- Topic
- 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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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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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
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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.
- Topic
- Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness, Mental health treatment; Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use; Housing Models; Housing Navigation; Outreach and Engagment; Treatment Models
- Language
- English
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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