Day 2: Behavioral Health and Housing | National Reentry Resource Center

Reentry Week 2021 — April 27: Behavioral Health and Housing

TODAY'S EVENTS

Integrate Housing Solutions

This webinar discusses how to integrate housing solutions into the reentry process, including identifying people at risk of homelessness in the justice system, coordinating with housing providers, and financing new housing opportunities.

Do you screen everyone for substance use and mental health needs and disorders?
Do you screen everyone for housing needs upon release?
Do you have capacity to meet those needs?

MORE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH & HOUSING MATERIALS

Resources

Looking Beyond Conviction History fact sheet cover image

Brief Looking Beyond Conviction History: Recommendations for Public Housing Authority Admissions Policies This fact sheet provides eight recommendations for public housing authorities to rethink limits on public housing for people with criminal conviction histories and to actively address barriers to housing that can reinforce discrimination.

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Toolkit Collaborative Comprehensive Case Plans This web-based tool includes key priorities for developing and implementing collaborative comprehensive case plans and features Second Chance Act grantee profiles as examples of lead case planners.

Best Practices for Successful Reentry for People Who Have Opioid Addictions report cover image

Brief Best Practices for Successful Reentry for People Who Have Opioid Addictions This fact sheet describes the best practices that correctional, community-based behavioral health, and probation and parole agencies can implement within their systems to ensure reentry for people who have opioid addictions is safe and successful.

Telehealth and Telecommunication Opportunities in the Criminal Justice System brief cover image

Brief Telehealth and Telecommunication Opportunities in the Criminal Justice System This brief highlights opportunities for implementing telehealth and telecommunication to support people with mental illnesses and substance use disorders in the criminal justice system.

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Toolkit Relapse Prevention Plans (from Collaborative Comprehensive Case Plans) With this tool, criminal justice and behavioral health professionals can learn information about developing and implementing relapse prevention plans as part of a Collaborative Comprehensive Case Plan for reentry.

Three Things to Know About Implementing Telehealth in Correctional Facilities website

Brief Three Things to Know About Implementing Telehealth in Correctional Facilities This article shares three considerations for corrections agencies as they continue to expand their use of telehealth in jails and prisons to help provide essential medical and behavioral health services and facilitate reentry planning and coordination.

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Brief ‘A Resource for Change’: The Role of Peer Recovery Support Specialists in Reentry Programs This article discusses the unique ways that peer recovery support specialists can enhance reentry programs.

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Brief How One City Used Federal Funds to Create Reentry Housing Opportunities This article discusses how the City of Salina, Kansas leveraged U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Emergency Solutions Grant funding to respond to local needs and provide rapid re-housing assistance to people leaving jail and prison.

On-Demand Webinars

Looking Beyond a Conviction: Opening Doors to Public Housing webinar screenshot

Webinar: Looking Beyond a Conviction: Opening Doors to Public Housing In this webinar, presenters discuss best practices for providing access to public housing for formerly incarcerated people and share how public housing authorities and their partners are creating opportunities reentry programs and changing admissions policies.

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Webinar: Operationalizing Reentry Programs for People with Behavioral Health Needs This webinar from the The Council of State Governments Justice Center discusses lessons learned from planning and implementing behavioral health reentry programs along with considerations for keeping these programs funded in the long term.

Offender Reentry Programs - Housing Options for Successful Tribal Reentry webinar screenshot

Webinar: Offender Reentry Programs - Housing Options for Successful Tribal Reentry In the webinar sponsored by the American Probation and Parole Association's Tribal Community Corrections Support Center, presenter Tony Fish, Director of Muscogee Creek Nation Reintegration Program (MCN RIP) provides a practitioner’s perspective of working with reentrants to achieve successful reintegration through MCN RIP).

Multimedia

Reentry Talk with Ryan Moser video screenshot

VideoReentry Talk with Ryan Moser, Corporation for Supportive Housing

The National Reentry Resource Center is operated by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-23-GK-05503-MUMU awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.