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The Housing Collective and our partners develop and deliver tools to help planners, policymakers, service providers, and citizens create innovative and data-driven housing solutions in Connecticut.
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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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Agenda includes: RRH and Susbtance Use, Changing Behavior, Motivation for Change, Harm Reduction
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Substance Abuse
- 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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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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- 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 session will cover best and emerging practices for conducting outreach and engagement with individuals experiencing SMI, SED, SUD, or COD who are also experiencing homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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Discuss the need for trauma-informed care across outreach and engagement efforts and services. Identify the different purposes and types of outreach that are provided in response to homelessness. Describe key skills for engaging with people experiencing homelessness in a trauma-informed manner. Explain how outreach and engagement efforts help address mental health and substance use needs for those experiencing homelessness.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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DMHAS Training for Supportive Housing Supervisory Staff
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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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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This course trains case workers to assist children (under 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 Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a Social Security Administration (SSA) disability benefit program.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Youth; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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