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  • Boosting the Power of Harm Reduction: Creating a Comprehensive and Culturally Responsive System of Care Serving People Experiencing Homelessness with Substance Use Disorders

    Homelessness | Mental Health & Substance Use | Issue Brief | Publication | November 2022

    With drug overdose deaths rising precipitously and adding to the risks already faced by people experiencing homelessness, it is time to combine our best knowledge and most effective interventions.

  • Federal Policy Recommendations to Support State Implementation of Medicaid-Funded Mobile Crisis Programs

    Medicaid | Mental Health & Substance Use | Issue Brief | Publication | January 2022

    In the context of new federal funding policies and the recent launch of the 988 behavioral health crisis line, this brief identifies important issues in mobile crisis implementation and describes ways that federal agencies can support state and local efforts.

  • Mobile Crisis Teams: A State Planning Guide for Medicaid-Financed Crisis Response Services

    Medicaid | Mental Health & Substance Use | Manual | Publication | January 2022

    A review of new federal requirements and funding opportunities related to community-based mobile crisis intervention services.

  • Heart Equity Action Lab (HEAL) Racial Equity & Social Justice Tool

    Homelessness | Manual | Publication | December 2021

    A step-by-step, holistic interrogation of youth homelessness community planning elements, to help teams prevent adverse consequences to racially marginalized and historically disenfranchised young people.

  • Implementation of the 988 Hotline: A Framework for State and Local Systems Planning

    Mental Health & Substance Use | Issue Brief | Publication | October 2021

    988 presents a unique opportunity for the behavioral health system, law enforcement, 911 systems, and other stakeholders to strengthen crisis response capacity and to provide people experiencing a mental health crisis with appropriate support.

  • The Gab on YABs

    Homelessness | Fact Sheet | Publication | April 2020

    We surveyed seven communities to ask about the role and functioning of youth leadership in their efforts to address youth homelessness.