At the crossroads of the Paavo- programmes 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
Jan 03, 2016
At the crossroads of the Paavo- programmes
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
• 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
• 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