Helping young people feel at home in Scotland: Building Collaborative and Integrated Services for Youth Homeless: a Reflexive Mapping Approach for Health and Social Care Integration

Abstract

The production of this knowledge exchange programme is the result of a multi-sector collaboration between different services and organizations working to tackle youth homelessness in Scotland. We would like to thank all the diverse and amazing partners that came together to plan and to deliver this programme for and with young people. Our most sincere and special gratitude to each young person that helped us to see the problem of youth homelessness through their eyes and experiences. Their participation was essential. Their views on professional practice and service provision inspired us to do better and to do it together. With the active participation of all of those involved: young people, practitioners, policy makers and academics, we could reflect on complex and sensitive issues, having fun at the same time, as it is important not to forget to celebrate our achievements. This final report brings what we could share and learn from each other to produce these key recommendations.

Health and Social Care Inequalities: The Impact of COVID-19 on People Experiencing Homelessness in Brazil

“…The study used a participatory research methodology with strong involvement of organizations from the Third Sector working with people experiencing homelessness in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Previous work [ 11 ] on a knowledge exchange program on homelessness and accessibility of services developed in Scotland and Brazil had shown the need for further studies on the Brazil case, especially during the pandemic period.…”

“…The result of this lack of investment in regular professional training often leads to homogenized and stigmatized practices of care and social assistance in the view of this population, which does not help them to get out of the situation, and the cycles of poverty and homelessness persist [ 9 ]. Studies point out that access to a greater offer of services to the homeless population, occurs, preferably, through urgent, emergency, and crisis services [ 10 , 11 ]. However, as much as these services guarantee the first care, the continuity of follow-up/care remains a challenge to be overcome by professionals, services, and public policies.…”

Developing oral health services for people experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage: a case study from Southwest England

“…A number of studies throw light on approaches to co-design ( 33 , 59 , 60 ). Our approach is similar to “experience-based co-design”, which collects user experiences and uses them to formulate interventions or pathways ( 61 ).…”

Critically engaging vulnerability: Rethinking oral health with vulnerabilized populations

“…The second is authentic inclusion of vulnerabilized peoples in the endeavours intended to help them, facilitated by creative research strategies. Strategies may include art‐based methods, 47 long‐term observation in‐situ to gain insight within the context of their everyday environments, and community‐based participatory research in which research questions are designed with communities from the outset to identify their key aims and measures of success 48 . In support of this approach, multidisciplinary collaborations with researchers external to oral health can provide useful insight.…”