This Month's Featured Course

Course Format

This course is online. All course material is available online and is accessible immediately after purchase from your account homepage.

Course Overview

The Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) series fulfills the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA's) mission to improve prevention and treatment of substance use and mental disorders by providing best practices guidance to clinicians, program administrators and payers.

This Treatment Improvement Protocol (TIP) is for the behavioral health service provider or program administrator who wants to work more effectively with people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness and who need, or are currently in, substance abuse or mental health treatment. The approach advocated by the TIP is integrated and is aimed at providing services to the whole person to improve quality of life in all relevant domains.

****CCAPP STUDENTS - PLEASE READ - Please note any course over 10 CEUs/Contact Hours/Hours, must be completed over a 72 hour (or more) time period. Your certificate of completion will reflect the amount of time you took to complete and pass the course. For example, 'Completed 7/1/2018 - 7/6/2018'

Course Objectives

1. Understand and know how to utilize resources for homelessness in your community.


2. Provide integrated, more effective services to people who are homeless.


3. Understand the significance of cultural competence in your work with people who are homeless and experience substance use and mental disorders.


4. Influence the understanding of others in your community regarding the interrelationship of homelessness, substance abuse and mental illness.

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