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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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  • Toolkit Eviction Prevention: A Toolkit for Tenants and Service Providers

    This Toolkit outlines strategies for supporting people with mental health conditions, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders living in community-based low-income housing to prevent eviction.

    Topic
    Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness; Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use; Housing Models: Diversion/Problem-solving, Eviction Prevention; Housing Navigation: Landlord engagement; Supportive Services
    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 treatment; Housing Models: Housing First, Permanent Supportive Housing, 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 identification; Specialized Partnerships: HUD Continuum of Care (CoC)
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • Toolkit Helping Individuals Experiencing Homelessness Obtain Identification Documents

    This resource provides helpful guidance on helping individuals who are experiencing homelessness obtain identification documents.

    Topic
    Housing Navigation: Housing identification; Outreach and Engagment: Street outreach
    Language
    English; Spanish
  • Toolkit Applying New COVID-19-Related Funding to Address the Housing Needs of Individuals with Serious Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorders, and Co-occurring Disorders

    This paper highlights newly available federal funds that can be utilized for housing and paired with supportive services funding for individuals who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and who have a serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbances, or co-occurring disorders. The paper also notes several ways for state and local leaders to promote cross-system partnerships that pair...

    Focus
    Laws/Acts/Regulations: CARES Act
    Topic
    Co-occurring Disorders; Housing Models: Housing First; Housing Navigation: Housing identification; Specialized Partnerships: HUD Continuum of Care (CoC)
    Language
    English; Spanish