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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 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.
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- Housing Models: Housing First, Emergency Shelter
- Language
- English; Spanish
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Fact Sheet Xylazine Basics: Overdose Prevention, Harm Reduction, and Wound Care
This document provides information on xylazine, a non-opioid veterinary tranquilizer used as an additive in illicit drug supplies, notably in combination with heroin and fentanyl.
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- Co-occurring Disorders; Substance Use: Substance use treatment; Treatment Models: Harm reduction
- Language
- English; Spanish
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Toolkit Expanding Peer Support Roles in Homeless Services Delivery: A Toolkit for Service Providers
Peer support is a fast-growing occupation in the behavioral health sector and homeless service organizations can also benefit from its value. This toolkit guides organizations looking to strengthen peers' integration into their workforce.
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- Supportive Services: Peer Services / Supports; Integrated Care
- Language
- English; Spanish
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Toolkit Coordinating Systems of Care to Provide a Comprehensive Behavioral Health Crisis Response to Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
This brief suggests strategies to enhance crisis care through multilevel coordination and describes practical approaches that systems of care can deploy to strengthen collaboration.
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- Mental Health: Serious Emotional Disturbance, Serious Mental Illness, Mental health treatment; Trauma; Co-occurring Disorders; Integrated Care
- Language
- English; Spanish
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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