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Along with our partners, ODI develops and shares tools to support the homeless emergency response system, its clients and its staff. Search our comprehensive database, which can be filtered by audience, region, and topic.
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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
- Media Video
- Region CT
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Homelessness; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations; Residents
- Media Website
- 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
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- 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
- Media Video
- 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
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- 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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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- 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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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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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 webinar taught housing counselors and housing providers to recognize and respond to consumers affected by domestic violence and sexual assault. This included using trauma-informed approaches for working with and making referrals for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, using an intersectional lens. Webinar participants learned critical information about the Department of Justice's Office for Victims of Crime and other federal resources.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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People experiencing homelessness face unique challenges and barriers that complicate and intensify in disaster situations. Planning for disaster response is essential for people experiencing homelessness who have behavioral health conditions and the providers that serve them. Join this webinar to learn how to start planning for disaster response and to hear from one community well versed in these situations.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention; Homelessness
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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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
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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The Emergency Shelter Learning Series is a collection of webinars and resources from the National Alliance to End Homelessness focused on explaining the philosophy and practice of effective emergency shelter.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Website
- Region USA
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This four-part series will provide a foundation for the experience of trauma, highlight the environmental elements that help soothe our nervous system, dive deep into the steps of a trauma-informed design process, and explore opportunities for integrating trauma-informed approaches into housing operations including property management, resident services and building maintenance.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Case Management; Crisis Intervention; Capacity Building
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region USA
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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 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. Information regarding DCF's mission and practices are also contained in the training program to enhance participants' global understanding of the child welfare system, as well as community provder staff's role and responsibilities as a mandated reporter.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Webinar
- Region CT
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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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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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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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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Outreach; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region CT
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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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Through this video, viewers will learn about domestic violence with a special focus on victims and survivors ages 18-24 years old.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations; Officials; Residents
- Media Video
- Region CT
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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 Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- 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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The NN4Y and the McCain Institute hosted a webinar about our self-paced online Certificate program we developed where you earn NASW CEUs as you learn about the fundamentals of human trafficking, red flags, assessment approaches, impact of trauma, and how to serve at-risk youth.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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The NN4Y and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) hosted a webinar about the types of sexual exploitation that can be reported to the CyberTipline and how to access the wide range of support services NCMEC’s specialized team can provide survivors, including emotional support, assistance with removing content, referrals to specially trained mental health professionals.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Youth; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Media Video
- Region USA
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