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This webinar will share insight into anxiety and depression and equip you with practical, effective and safe strategies to powerfully support the young adults you mentor. For so many of our young people, wellness is developed and strengthened in daily living, especially at work. Add to your mentorship toolbox and boost your confidence in supporting young adults through the challenges of anxiety and depression.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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Harm reduction includes a range of policies, programs, and practices that meet vulnerable individuals like runaway and homeless youth where they're at. Harm reduction practices are designed to acknowledge and reduce the risks young people face every day by developing youth-centered strategies to enhance safety in ways that work for them. Learn how to embed harm reduction techniques into your work with youth during COVID-19 and beyond to create brave spaces where youth get the care and services they deserve.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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This video from the Homeless and Housing Resource Center highlights five practical strategies for making shelters more welcoming and accessible to people experiencing homelessness. It focuses on removing common obstacles that keep individuals from entering or staying in shelters, such as strict rules or unsafe environments. The video encourages adopting trauma-informed, low-barrier approaches that prioritize safety, dignity, and trust-building between staff and residents.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention; Shelter
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Substance Abuse
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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The Fair Housing Act (FHA) prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in all types of housing transactions. The FHA's definition of disability includes physical and mental impairments that limit one or more major life activity. In this session of the Fair Housing 2021: What Counselors Need to Know Conference, counselors received guidance on reasonable modifications and reasonable accommodations, including rights to assistance animals.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Accessibility
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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There are many orders of protection available to protect victims and survivors of domestic violence In Connecticut. This training will explore the two main orders of protection issued in Connecticut. In addition, we will review the other types of orders that are available and/or issued in this state.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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Transgender individuals are significantly more likely to experience homelessness at some point in their life than the general population. During this training we will provide you with information and insight about transgender individuals, review the different types of laws that protect transgender individuals from discrimination, thoroughly discuss best practices and our commitment to ensure equal access for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals. We hope you join us for this informative as well as engaging training.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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This webinar offers an overview of Section 508 and how to apply web-based standards to the development of documents and websites to enable equal access to information for all persons with sensory impairment.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Accessibility
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials
- Region CT
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In this webinar, panelists will answer questions about the challenges and opportunities organizations experience when establishing new peer roles. Leaders at organizations with established peer roles will talk about the process of onboarding peers, such as building organizational buy-in, addressing stigma in policies and in the workplace, and recruiting and employing peer workers in an equitable way.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Employment; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
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Building community in supportive housing is essential to helping tenants turn their units into homes where they can thrive. Join us for a special free webinar with trainer Amiyoko Shabazz, CSH Speak Up! Advocate and tenant in supportive housing to learn strategies to work collaboratively with tenants to build community in your program and connect with the larger community.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
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This recorded webinar is will explore best practices for tenant leadership.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
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Critical Time Intervention (CTI) is a time-limited evidence-based practice that mobilizes support for society’s most vulnerable individuals during periods of transition. This workshop provides an overview of CTI and focus on the benefits of using a housing-focused CTI case management model in Rapid Re-Housing programs. During the workshop we discuss how to measure the impact of CTI, share successes and discuss challenges and lessons learned along the way.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Rapid Rehousing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing
- Region CT
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This asynchronous Mandated Reporter Training course is designed to provide the most updated information regarding the accurate and prompt identification and reporting of child abuse and neglect. Legal requirements and protections for mandated reporters are discussed in detail, as well as consequences for failing to report.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Youth
- Audience Community Organizations
- 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
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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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
- Region USA
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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
- Region CT
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Part of the Emergency Shelter webinar series on the effective role of shelter in a crisis response system.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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On July 12th, Jean-Michel Giraud, Friendship Place; Cathy Zall, New London Homeless Hospitality Center; and Meghann Cotter, Micah Ministries, discussed how they are using shared housing as a tool to prevent and end homelessness, particularly for single adults.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing
- Audience Community Organizations
- 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
- 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
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Case Management
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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This webinar focused on increasing access to supportive housing as an option for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. This webinar highlighted examples of state efforts to address and dismantle barriers, resulting in increased access to quality, safe, affordable, and supportive housing.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Supportive Housing; Accessibility
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Capacity Building; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region CT
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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
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