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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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fact Sheet Fair Housing Protections for People with SMI, SUD, or COD

    This document describes how individuals with disabilities can leverage federal laws to protect themselves from this type of discrimination and ensure equal access and opportunity to enjoy housing that suits their needs.

    Focus
    People with Disabilities; Laws/Acts/Regulations: Fair Housing
    Topic
    Mental Health: Serious Mental Illness; Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use; Housing Models: Eviction Prevention; Housing Navigation: Landlord engagement
    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