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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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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.
Training Course Trauma-Informed Outreach and Engagement
This training course is accredited for 3 CEUs from NASW and provides foundational information about trauma-informed outreach and engagement strategies, approaches, and service delivery models. This will focus on ways to support individuals who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness who have serious mental illness, substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders.
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Webinar Employing Peer Workers: An Organization’s Perspective
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In this webinar, panelists will answer questions about the challenges and opportunities organizations experience when establishing new peer roles.
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Webinar The Peer Support Experience: In Our Own Words
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This webinar, led by panelists currently providing peer services, will introduce a new toolkit developed to provide guidance and strategies to integrate and sustain peer workers within homeless service organizations.
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Webinar Xylazine: An Introduction for Service Providers Working with Unhoused Individuals
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In this webinar, panelists will provide a brief overview of Xylazine, a substance newly found in illicit drug supplies, and its impacts on the unsheltered community.
Training Course Supporting People Who Use Methamphetamine
This course is accredited for 1.5 CEUs from NASW and introduces methamphetamine (MA) and evidence-based strategies for treatment and housing support for individuals experiencing homelessness. The course covers the drivers behind MA use, its impact on physical and mental health, treatment and harm-reduction strategies, and best practices around obtaining and maintaining housing.
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Webinar Outreach and Housing Support for Individuals with Psychotic Disorders
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This panel examines outreach and housing support strategies for individuals with psychotic disorders.
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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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Webinar Introduction to Psychotic Disorders
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This 90-minute webinar aims to provide education and introduce several skills and techniques for working with individuals experiencing symptoms of psychosis.
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.
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.
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Webinar Housing Supports for Older Adults Experiencing Homelessness
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This webinar will present an overview of factors impacting older adults experiencing homelessness and share strategies to support their housing needs.
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Webinar Effective Behavioral Health Crisis Response
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This webinar will explore strategies for reducing, mitigating, and responding to behavioral health emergencies involving individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Webinar Addressing our Drug Overdose Deaths: Combined Strategies to Optimize Health, Wellness and Recovery through a Culturally Responsive System of Care
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This webinar will offer important information about how communities can reduce overdose deaths among those experiencing homelessness by utilizing combined interventions of harm reduction, supportive housing, SUD treatment and recovery support that are integrated and culturally responsive.
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.
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Toolkit Motivational Interviewing Self-Appraisal
This tool helps providers to assess their motivational interviewing (MI) skills and practices and includes activities to improve their MI techniques.
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Toolkit Disaster Planning and Response: A Guide to Preparation for Homelessness Response Programs
This guide outlines questions that homelessness response programs should answer as they plan for and respond to natural disasters. The guide places a focus on the needs of people experiencing homelessness with serious mental illness (SMI), serious emotional disturbance (SED), substance use disorder (SUD), or co-occurring disorders (CODs).
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.
Training Course Whole-Person Care for Opioid Use Disorder
This course is accredited for 3 CEUs from NASW and provides foundational information about the neurobiology and prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD), the whole-person care framework and best practices, treatment and recovery support for OUD, and supporting housing stability for individuals with OUD. The focus throughout will be on individuals who are experiencing homelessness and OUD.