The Resource Library

Publications

  • Resolving Homelessness: The Critical Need for a Substance Use Disorder System of Care

    Homelessness | Mental Health & Substance Use | Publication | January 2025

    The Homeless Strategy and Solutions Initiative engaged TAC to summarize available reports, data, funding, and agencies responsible for meeting the substance use disorder treatment, service, and housing needs of people experiencing homelessness in the Portland Metro Area. The report describes the essential features of an SUD system of care…

  • The Role of Employment in Ending Homelessness: A Report to the Homeless Strategic Initiative on Supported Employment

    Mental Health & Substance Use | Report | Publication | January 2025

    The Homeless Strategic Initiative (HSI) engaged TAC to interview key informants and analyze reports and data to outline supported employment service availability for people experiencing and at risk of homelessness in the Portland (OR) Metro Area. In the resulting report, TAC documented the greatest challenges to scaling supported employment…

  • States’ Alignment with SAMHSA Model Standards for Peer Support Certification

    Mental Health & Substance Use | Report | Publication | August 2024

    Produced in partnership with the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration's (SAMHSA) Peer Recovery Center of Excellence, this report provides a comprehensive review of how different states align with SAMHSA’s national standards for peer support certification. These standards aim to enhance the quality and consistency of peer support…

  • Eviction Prevention: A Toolkit for Tenants & Service Providers

    Mental Health & Substance Use | Manual | Publication | July 2024

    A toolkit for people with mental health conditions or SUDs and the service providers supporting them in their housing and recovery.

  • Leveraging Medicaid to Enhance School-Based Mental Health Services

    Medicaid | Issue Brief | Publication | March 2024

    With new flexibilities in Medicaid funding, states and school districts have a unique opportunity to meet the increasingly critical mental health needs of young people in the United States.

  • Building Community Partnerships to Boost Mobile Crisis Response (webinar series)

    Mental Health & Substance Use | Media | Publication | February 2024

    To successfully reach people who have been missed or failed by the behavioral health system, mobile response teams must build trust with local entities and rethink awareness-building and engagement.