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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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Fact Sheet Getting Started with Contingency Management
This fact sheet provides an overview of Contingency Management and information about managing a rewards system, measuring success, and funding the program.
- Topic
- Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Treatment Models: Outpatient (Community based treatment, Counseling)
- Language
- English
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Fact Sheet Harm Reduction Vending Machines: Considerations for Implementation
This fact sheet introduces the evidence-based harm reduction vending machine model, explains how it supports overdose prevention strategies, outlines what supplies to include, and highlights key considerations for implementation.
- Topic
- Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use prevention, Substance use treatment; Treatment Models: Harm reduction; Specialized Partnerships: Military/VA, Hospital/clinic, Criminal/ Legal
- Language
- English; Spanish
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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
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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.
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- 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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Fact Sheet Guide to Resource Mapping and Assessing Community Needs
This fact sheet describes available data sources for identifying service gaps and provides guidance for engaging in resource mapping to address those unmet needs.
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- Supportive Services: Employment, Mainstream benefits, Disability benefits, Peer Services / Supports, Education Supports, Family Supports; Specialized Partnerships: Military/VA, Hospital/clinic, Education, Criminal/ Legal, Faith-based, HUD Continuum of Care (CoC), Tribal Communities; Integrated Care; Data
- Language
- English; Spanish