This report identifies ten specific areas, or guiding principles, that will assist states and federal policy makers in defining and understanding what comprises safe, effective, and legal recovery housing.
Addressing the Critical Need for Housing and Strategies to Improve Housing Access
This is part 2 of a five-part series from the Early Diversion Virtual Learning Community. The webinar focuses on comprehensive strategies to improve housing access, which is key to early diversion.
Whole-Person Care for People Experiencing Homelessness and Opioid Use Disorder Toolkit: Part I
This toolkit offers best practices, tools, and resources for those serving people experiencing homelessness and opioid use disorder. It presents the whole person care framework for supporting recovery and housing stability. Part I of the toolkit provides an introduction to homelessness, opioid use disorder, and evidence-based recovery practices such as trauma-informed care, motivational interviewing, stigma elimination, and harm reduction.
Recovery LIVE: Criminal Justice System Impact on Marginalized Populations
A criminal conviction limits employment prospects, access to public housing assistance, and social services. Further, systemic racism means that these barriers disproportionately affect people of color. This recorded webinar discusses the impact of mass incarceration, the school-to-prison pipeline, extreme sentencing, and collateral consequences for disenfranchised and marginalized populations, with a focus on the needs of women exiting the criminal justice system.
Community of Practice Session 1: Creating Housing Opportunities for People with Complex Health Needs Leaving the Justice System – CSG Justice Center
The CSG Justice Center and CSH are hosting a three-session virtual Community of Practice (CoP) focused on strategies that local justice and housing system leaders can use to collaboratively increase housing options for people with complex behavioral health needs leaving incarceration and/or diverted from the justice system.