A Discussion on the roots of Housing First, brings us back to "Out of the Shadows" - Mental Health Commission's Recommendations
Take 45 minutes to pause and think about our systems of care with the talk’s sharp focus on the intervention itself. The discussion got me thinking of: the recovery model; our categories of who fits into what program of care; mental health care’s forms of intervention; and what ever happened to the Mental Health Commission’s Recommendations and its whole system, whole country recommendations guide?
The “fireside chat,” helps us step into a “new year,” and made me want to know more about the implementation plans of health and social reforms occouring in Ontario and our communities. The vision of initiatives such as Health Teams have the mission to incorporate, health and the social determinants of health. It would be useful to concretize the various plans: disability reform, housing, mental health care, homelessness, population based care and weave the implementation steps to make coherent to clients, families, frontline providers, managers.
Does anyone know who is doing this?
A discussion with Dr. Sam Tsemberis, the founder of Housing First, who joins Alex Smith, Housing First England's Senior Project Manager.
Please see the Webinar here: https://hfe.homeless.org.uk/di...ion-dr-sam-tsemberis
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Out of the Shadows at Last: Transforming Mental Health, Mental Illness and Addiction Services in Canada
https://www.mentalhealthcommis...diction-services-can
Thanks for sharing this information, Bill!
It really is a useful, step back and pause, think-- talk by Sam Tsemberis.
It would be interesting to hear others reactions to it. While I have my own, I know my perspective is just one slice.
Thanks for sharing Bill! Checkout the work from our Ontario Housing First Regional Network Community of Interest. We work closely with Sam, (he's awesome!), and he's also on our steering committee for the Fourth International Housing First Conference.
Would be useful to know how our systems are working, or more to the point continuing, building systems approaches.
ANyone know of a document or person who could explain it? Is there a document that could help with this? I just have a few links, but they feel siloed and are clearly not embedded plans in play:
is useful for it's cautions about single care system (ie: mental health system) approach to address the social determinants of health, yet helps sketch out how to get there. “…community mental health programs and systems are currently unable to address poverty as they are overly focused on individual-level interventions that, on their own, cannot raise people out of poverty. The paper calls for a social justice value, informed by the concept of citizenship, as a necessary complement to the recovery concept that has informed community mental health practice for almost 25 years.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.co...l/10.1002/ajcp.12211
Hi [@mention:308945795800730512], check out some of the resources here: https://www.homelesshub.ca/sol...pproach-homelessness and let us know if any of these are relevant to what you're looking for!
Every bit is helping, Angela.
The problem, the complexity, is that while the "homelessness" category of care, has climbed some various and serious mountains over the decades to bridge and adapt with the mainstream systems and is remarkable how far we have come, yet we still have siloed systems.
It would be great to have Claudette Bradshaw, who led the startup of the National Secretariat on Homelessness, join the Conference, maybe a panel or something. She led the framing of the local systems set up, once homelessness became a word the federal government could swallow.
Above is from an article i stumbled on my search for Bradshaw. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...ntegration-1.4360618
So, this plan Answering the Call, from the Mental Health commission worth a look, when we all get a chance.
I'd be curious to hear from mental planners at different levels, how they actually integrate this document - vision to the point of leveraging action.
"Answering the Call"
Go to the webpage: https://www.mentalhealthcommis...tegic-plan-2021-2031
So, I took a look at the strategic plan, Answering the Call, but no answers, don't waste any of your time on it. Perhaps the word "strategic" should be banned from links with the word "plan." Ok, its a vision, its a mission but certainly no actual plan to leverage anything here.
Fair enough that the Fed's really can't be leading the provinces on actual care given our constitution and the BNA act. Making more relevant the federal role, in research and policy might come from the policy report below that advocates for cohesion by framing these evidence developing organizations as a suite.
Federal efforts to “consider” bridging national: research, practice, policy, in Health Care https://www.eenetconnect.ca/to...olicy-in-health-care