Transcript Pitkäaikaisasunnottomuus ja Asunto ensin

At the crossroads of the Paavoprogrammes
Challenges for Paavo III
Perspectives on Housing First in Finland 17.9.2014
Riitta Granfelt
“Long-term Homelessness and Finnish
Adaptations of Housing First Model”
Academy of Finland
Themes of the presentation
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Gender perspective
Young adults living at housing units
Tacit knowledge
Diversity of Housing First –adaptations
Back to Basics
Paavos lacking gender perspective?
• Time to highligt the need for housing services
and related social and health care services for
women at the margins of society
• `Women-specific´ as part of housing social
work?
• Connecting basic and special levels of
expertise in the mental health and substance
abuse services to respond to trauma
experiences
Young adults at the Housing units
• Social integration as a goal of housing social
work at housing units
• Transitions for the most marginalised young
adults to scattered housing
• Development of floating support that works
from the point of mentally fragile drug
abusers
Tacit knowledge as a resource
• Unique professional skills, understanding and
know-how about housing social work for the use
of practice research and professional training
• Vague and unclear professional identity of the
housing advisors, housing councellors, housing
social workers; connections with social work
education and research at the university level
Diversity of HF -adaptations/mixed models
• F.eg. Housing First or Desistance First?
• Preventive housing social work at institutional
settings, like prisons, mental hospitals, drug
rehabilitation institutions… > paths to
`housing readiness´ for scattered housing
• Not staircase -models, but path- (or mixed)
models: transitions and recovery processes;
f.eg. from congregate housing to scattered
housing
Basics of Homelessness work
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Ontological security
Getting rid of stigmatisation ”Otherness”
Meaning of Life
Recovery as part of Everyday Life ”life-long
process”
• One´s own flat as ”holding/facilitating
environment”, if not experienced as home