Resources
The Opening Doors Initiative and our partners develop and share tools to support the clients and staff of the emergency homelessness response system.
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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
- Region USA
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This resource explains trauma-informed care as a way for organizations to understand and respond to the effects of trauma. It focuses on creating safe, supportive spaces where people feel respected and empowered. Key ideas include safety, trust, and avoiding further harm. It also gives tips for making programs more trauma-aware through staff training and supportive policies.
- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Health; Crisis Intervention
- Audience Community Organizations
- Region USA
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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
- 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
- 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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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
- 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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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
- 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
- Region USA
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- 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
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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Substance Abuse; Crisis Intervention; Health
- Audience Community Organizations
- 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
- 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
- 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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- Initiative Opening Doors
- Topic Shared Housing; Health
- 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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