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This 2016 webinar rebroadcast includes three recordings aimed at educating supportive housing and homeless services providers and systems on the basics on program models in the addiction services sector such as Recovery Support Services, MAT and Addiction treatment.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This panel examines outreach and housing support strategies for individuals with psychotic disorders. Practitioners will each share best practices aimed at improving accessibility, stability, and community integration for this population. They will also discuss collaborative efforts among mental health, housing, and community-based professionals.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar will explore strategies for reducing, mitigating, and responding to behavioral health emergencies involving individuals experiencing homelessness. The featured panelists will discuss cross-sector provider coordination and integration and best practices for effectively responding to crisis situations. They will also provide community examples of cross-sector coordination to improve health outcomes, and offer tangible approaches to ensuring comprehensive, culturally responsive services.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar will feature three panelists in a roundtable discussion about serving individuals with serious mental illness who are experiencing homelessness. Panelists will help dispel myths about homelessness and mental illness, share innovative and culturally responsive models of care, and provide actionable takeaways that participants can use in their work.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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The success of supportive housing depends partly on the availability of high-quality services and supports to help people access, transition to, and sustain their tenancy in housing. This webinar will offer practical information about key federal resources available through Medicaid and SAMHSA that can be used to pay for many of these supportive housing services. Presenters will discuss tips for identifying available funding and strategies for partnerships to secure Medicaid and SAMHSA funding.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This webinar will highlight different models of medical respite care and approaches to providing high-quality behavioral health services. Program representatives will discuss issues related to addressing stigma and training staff, and participants will learn more about the model’s whole-person care approach. This will be an interactive webinar that will allow ample time for questions, answers, and discussion.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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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. Panelists will share their lived expertise with xylazine, its effects, organizational best practices for wound care, overdose response, and harm reduction.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This recorded webinar talks about communities that are developing innovative programs to address the needs of people experiencing opioid addiction and, in particular, those who are also experiencing homelessness or housing instability.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This introductory course provides foundational information about the neurobiology and prevalence of opioid use disorder (OUD), the whole-person care framework and best practices, treatment and recovery supports for OUD, and supporting housing stability for individuals with OUD.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This course provides practical tips and strategies to enable supportive housing tenants to age in place in supportive housing programs. As tenants age, their needs change. Adaptions and accommodations may be necessary to enable them to continue to live independently in housing. Trainers will explore how supportive housing providers can take a proactive role in planning to meet the changing needs of tenants as they age. Approaches to case management, the importance of building community-based partnerships and connections as well as methods to promote housing stability will be discussed.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Older Adults; Supportive Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This short, self-paced course provides an introduction to strategies to engage older adults in supportive housing. The course will explore the impact of isolation and loneliness on the health and well-being of older adults and how effective engagement strategies can help reduce the impact of isolation and loneliness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Older Adults; Supportive Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This recorded webinar examines the “frequent user” definition used by several communities to target this population for interventions such as coordinated care and housing aimed at reducing their cost to the system along with improving health.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Housing Affordability
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
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FCCHO provides a fact sheet which details the relationship between housing and healthcare.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Health
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Media PDF
- Region CT
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FCCHO provides a fact sheet which details the relationship between housing and employment.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Education; Health
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Media PDF
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Learn about the concept of Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and how they are important to your work and the clients you work with. Gain knowledge on the factors that make up social determinants of health while exploring the importance of asking these questions in a uniform way and why that matters. Understand the steps necessary to develop partnerships with other organizations to support your clients to improve health outcomes and increase team collaboration and efficiency.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Case Management; Collective Impact
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This 11 module course will equip learners with a clear understanding of the context of modern homelessness and its effect on health; detail the core characteristics of Health Care for the Homeless model of care; and explore ways learners can get involved in the movement to end homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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FCCHO provides a fact sheet which details the relationship between housing and economic mobility.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Education; Health
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Media PDF
- Region CT
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FCCHO details the investments communities can make with their share of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to improve and diversify their housing stock.
- Initiative Centers for Housing Opportunity
- Topic Housing Affordability; Supportive Housing; Health
- Audience Officials; Residents
- Media PDF
- Region CT
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This training provides an understanding of how to create structures and systems that recognize the traumas that exist and that prioritize the wellness of young people and program staff.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Youth; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Health; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This is the second part of a three-part Learning Community Series on Supportive Housing Models that Work. Hear from subject matter experts and a community provider about evidence-based practice interventions used to successfully engage individuals in accessing and sustaining housing, improve health, wellness, and recovery, and how to support staff in utilization of these interventions.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Prepare for an emergency situation by learning when and how to call 911 from a health center. Explore training and planning strategies that equip health centers for crisis situations. Consider how partnerships can contribute to community safety. Learn to identify and appropriately respond to each type of emergency. Prepare to act in the event of an emergency. Consider the events and scenarios that require urgent response and whether a call to 911 is appropriate.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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This toolkit was developed to introduce community-based organizations that serve youth who have experienced homelessness with resources to understand Trauma-Informed Care (TIC). The toolkit focuses on how service providers can support youth’s wholeness by cultivating safety, awareness, trust, and empathy.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This session will offer information, examples, and guidance on conducting behavioral health care assessments and providing behavioral health services in encampments and other unsheltered environments.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention; Health; Outreach
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Hear from subject matter experts on organizational well-being as they share tools and resources to support supervisors in engaging in their own self-care and encouraging it among supervisees.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Case Management; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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This session will provide foundational information on trauma and 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.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Training is required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) new lead-based paint regulation (24 CFR Part 35, et al.). This training is intended for those already inspecting housing units. This training will build on your existing building inspection and assessment skills to perform visual assessments.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This course trains case workers to assist adults (age 18+) who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness and have a serious mental illness, medical impairment, and/or a co-occurring substance use disorder to apply for the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) disability programs, Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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Follow this guidance to register for OAT and enter the outcomes of your SOAR-assisted SSI/SSDI applications.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media PDF
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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Through this workshop, you will learn tips and tactics for reducing your stress and anxiety while restoring your balance and increasing your resiliency. Sessions include chair yoga, the CHL program, mindful eating, journaling and much more.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Case Management; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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This workshop will provide an overview of working with people with lived experience and how to create a safe environment for them to thrive within your organization. Learn techniques to support peers with lived experience and how to create an environment where they can contribute meaningfully without being retraumatized themselves.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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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. The first half of the webinar will utilize a presentation format with the overarching aim to improve provider confidence in working with this population.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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