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Mental health and housing
— developing a care and support pathway | | Author(s) | Nick Welch, Angelo Fernandes |
| Journal title | Housing, Care and Support, vol 13, no 4, December 2010 |
| Pages | pp 16-22 |
| Source | http://www.pierprofessional.com/hcsflyer/index.htm. |
| Keywords | Housing [elderly] ; Independent housing ; Mental disorder ; Psychiatric treatment ; Services ; Coordination ; Interaction [welfare services] ; Planning [admin] ; Oxfordshire. |
| Annotation | The development of services to enable people with mental health needs to live as independently as possible within the community is a key objective of Oxfordshire's mental health strategy. This article describes the development of the Supported to Independent Living project (SIL), a partnership between three social care agencies within the county. Oxfordshire has seen vigorous development of community living for people with longstanding mental health needs through the provision of group homes but this has not been uniform across the county. The needs of a diverse, younger, often more mobile and potentially more challenging group of service users for housing with appropriate care and support have not been met. The County Council and Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) have developed a joint strategy to meet these needs which introduces a pathway of linked accommodation and support arrangements. These range from intensive support through to floating support in the community, and are intended to offer individuals a guided pathway away from specialist services to more mainstream provision. The services are based on the principles of recovery, personalisation and ordinary housing. At the same time as reconfiguring services the strategy has to deliver savings to meet recently imposed cuts. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110718005 A |
| Classmark | KE: KL: E: LP: I: QAJ: QK6: QA6: 8O |
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