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Bringing it all back home: mental health and housing
- Author:
- JOHNSON Robin
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 11(3), November 2008, pp.30-35.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
This article calls for better co-operation and co-ordination between mental health and housing support services, and greater recognition of the important role of social housing in community mental health care. The article was originally published as: Johnson R (2008) A Life in the Day 12(2), pp.9-13.
Police help me
- Author:
- VALIOS Natalie
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 18.9.08, 2008, pp.34-35.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Voluntary groups are working with Sussex police recruits to challenge their attitudes to incidents involving vulnerable adults.
Innovation, local engagement and leadership; the future of supported housing in mental health
- Authors:
- JOHNSON Robin, ROBINSON Zoe
- Journal article citation:
- Housing Care and Support, 11(1), July 2008, pp.20-25.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
The new local government performance framework, in combination with the move to greater personalisation in services, creates a very new funding environment for housing with care and support. From the Public Service Agreement (PSA) on achieving settled accommodation for individuals at risk of exclusion, through to the impact of local joint strategic needs assessments and individual budgets, the principles and mechanisms of the new joint commissioning culture create more opportunities for providers to articulate the needs of the client group served, and to assert the case for more joined-up and responsive services. This may require different skills and new styles of leadership at local level, and providers who have become adept at being competitors may need to re-discover the skills of partnership. Meanwhile, new social exclusion policy frameworks are emerging for supported accommodation, which can support moves way from institutional care for those with mental health problems. This author discusses this changing environment.
The secondary family: the result of strong community partnering
- Author:
- CANT Irene R.
- Journal article citation:
- Mental Health Review Journal, 12(3), October 2007, pp.30-33.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Support for individualism can leave marginalised people feeling even more isolated and hopeless. Families often help but can soon become emotionally depleted. The 'secondary family', created when community agencies partner with one another, can offer hope for stabilisation, if not recovery, for individuals living with mental illness. This article describes a Canadian programme where crisis services are working with police to de-escalate illness. The article describes a Canadian programme where crisis services are working with police to de-escalate psychiatric crisis. Shared goals bring crisis staff and police together to provide compassion, support and follow-up.
Working in partnership to deliver training
- Authors:
- JONES Em, HAHN Sue
- Journal article citation:
- A Life in the Day, 11(4), November 2007, pp.6-9.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Service users are playing an increasingly important role in training professionals and can be effective in challenging beliefs and prejudices held about mental illness. The authors, a service user and lecturer in mental health at the Centre for Mental Health Recovery at the University of Hertfordshire, describe how they have been working together, delivering training on sexuality and mental health and self harm.
Out learning journey
- Author:
- JAMES Kathryn
- Journal article citation:
- Adults Learning, 19(3), November 2007, pp.8-11.
- Publisher:
- National Institute for Adult Continuing Education
For the past four years NIACE has worked in partnership with the National Institute for Mental Health (MIMHE) to promote access to learning and skills for people with mental health problems, and for the past three years the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) has supported this partnership. The author discusses the progress made through the Partnership Programme and what need to be done to understanding the needs of people with mental health needs. The importance of publicising good practice is highlighted.
A service framework to meet the needs of people with a co-occurring substance misuse and mental health problem
- Publisher:
- Wales. Welsh Assembly Government
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 21p.
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
The importance of developing seamless services for clients requiring both services cannot be stressed too strongly. Evidence indicates that drug and/or alcohol misuse among people with mental health problems is now commonplace but despite the availability of effective treatments, these services are not as co-ordinated as they might be Joining these services together is important because research shows that treatment for substance misuse problems often reduces psychiatric and mental health problems. Furthermore, substance misuse treatment is associated with decreasing substance use, decreased injecting behaviour and hence a reduction in the risk of HIV and hepatitis transmission, and improvements in other related forensic, psychological and physical problems.
Making the link between mental health and youth homelessness: a pan-London study
- Author:
- VASILIOU Christina
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 48p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The increasing numbers of young homeless people with mental health problems are not getting adequate support because services rarely work together to provide the necessary help. The report reveals inadequate mental health services. Over two thirds (69%) of the young homeless people aged 16-25 surveyed for the report have mental health problems. Half (50%) experience regular feelings of anxiety and depression as a result of being homeless, and a fifth (19%) had received a psychiatric diagnosis for schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder or clinical depression prior to becoming homeless. Of those, half (10%) were forced to leave the family home because of their mental health problem. The report claims that despite these figures staff working within housing and youth homelessness services lack the necessary skills to deal with mental health issues and need specialist training. They also struggle to access appropriate support for young people experiencing mental distress. Mental health assessment waiting times are long and this lack of early intervention leaves young people vulnerable to developing more entrenched mental health problems. As a result young people often reach crisis point before being seen by a mental health team. The report highlights that some voluntary sector housing and homelessness support services encounter barriers when trying to refer young people to the statutory sector. This is because mental health services are under resourced and some statutory services are reluctant to accept referrals from the voluntary sector. The research also found that young people with both mental health and drug and alcohol problems often do not get the help they need because services rarely work together making it difficult to provide complete care packages.
Working collaboratively: prescriptions for healthy learning - an example of success
- Author:
- SOUTH Petina
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Mental Health Promotion, 8(3), August 2006, pp.25-29.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Prescriptions for Healthy Learning Project demonstrates how an effective and successful partnership can be developed with other agencies and refers specifically to the relationship built up with Leicester City East and West Primary Care Trusts. The project involves providing information and advice about education and employment to clients who are experiencing common mental health problems. This article highlights the key principles involved in initiating and strengthening an effective partnership, by targeting with right professionals and teams, providing evidence and feedback to key parties, involving key parties in discussing the future development of the project, understanding and demonstrating that the service is supporting the partnership organisation in meeting their targets. The knowledge gained through the project’s development provides a key learning tool for future projects and services that want to develop successful partnerships.
Service innovations: redesigning a community mental health team
- Authors:
- SHAJAHAN Polash, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 30(7), July 2006, pp.269-271.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
The authors describe the redesign of a community mental health team in Lanarkshire (the focused intervention team for Bellshill). Their remit is to provide focused, time-limited therapeutic intervention for patients with mild-to-moderate mental health problems. The redesign involved a closer working relationship with the psychiatrist, establishing a concurrent community psychiatric nurse/psychiatric clinic, recategorisation of ‘soon’ and routine referrals to the team, opt-in letters and the introduction of new assessment formats. These measures combined to provide a shorter waiting list, increased joint working and management plans for patients. Team functioning and morale improved.