On the frontline or on the side-line? Homelessness care and care avoiders

Maeseele, Thomas; Bie, Maria Bouverne‐De; Roose, Rudi

doi:10.1080/13691457.2012.732932

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“…, Maeseele et al . , The Benevolent Society ). This requires comprehensive assessment and case management for every child presenting with an adult at a homelessness service.…”

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A scoping study: children, policy and cultural shifts in homelessness services in South Australia: are children still falling through the gaps?

Parry

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Burke

2015

Health Soc Care Community

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What is known about this topic• Homeless children are at higher risk of disengagement from health, education and welfare services.• Disengagement has long-term deleterious health, interpersonal and educational outcomes for homeless children as they grow.• Policy changes have addressed disengagement by directing homelessness services staff to provide an improved level of assessment and referral processes for children. What this paper adds• Policy changes have failed to address the specific training and educational requirements of frontline staff.• Child aware approaches are integral to improving service access for children. AbstractHomeless families are the fastest growing segment of the homelessness population. Homelessness services are often the first to know when children are at risk of disengagement with health, welfare and education services. Changes to Australian policy to explicitly attend to the needs of children are attempts to address the complexity of, and provide better outcomes for, homeless children. There are mounting levels of evidence describing some of the needs of children who are homeless. Using the scoping study methodological framework, this review of academic and grey literature identified the extent to which service providers provide for the needs of homeless children. The literature search was conducted from September 2012 to April 2013 using ProQuest, Science Direct, Sage and OVID databases. Therefore, the objectives of this scoping study were to: (i) identify the specific needs of children in homelessness; (ii) describe recent changes in policy relating to care for children in homelessness services; (iii) explore the evidence on how service providers can enact care for children in homelessness services; (iv) identify the types of practice changes that are needed to optimise outcomes for children; and (v) identify the gaps in service delivery. This article describes the Australian policy changes and explores the potential impact of subsequent sector reforms on the internal practices in front-line homelessness services, in order to overcome structural and systemic barriers, and promote opportunities for children in homeless families. This scoping study literature review contributes to the understanding of the impact of policy change on front-line staff and suggests possible practice changes and future research options.

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“…, Maeseele et al . , The Benevolent Society ). This requires comprehensive assessment and case management for every child presenting with an adult at a homelessness service.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A scoping study: children, policy and cultural shifts in homelessness services in South Australia: are children still falling through the gaps?

Parry

Grant

Burke

2015

Health Soc Care Community

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“…The concept of outreach has gained popularity in social work research. Studies in this field have focused on outreach practices targeted at various groups, such as homeless people (Doré-Gauthier et al, 2019;Maeseele et al, 2013), sex workers (Dugas et al, 2015;George & Blankenship, 2015), drug addicts (Langabeer et al, 2020), and poor individuals (Kaur, 2016). By contrast, the literature on outreach in the labor market context is limited.…”

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Outreach Practices of Public Employment Services Targeted at NEET Youth in Poland

Smoter

2021

Youth & Society

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This paper contributes to our understanding of whether, and if so, how public employment services in Poland are attempting to reach young NEETs, and whether they fail or succeed in their efforts. The study shows that most NEETs below 25 years of age in Poland, including rural NEETs, remain beyond the reach of the PES registers. The coverage rate is particularly low amongst those individuals who are outside the labor force. Effective outreach strategies may prevent them from moving into long-term inactivity. The study shows that the PES offices do not cooperate closely with local institutions: moreover, they use methods for approaching the hardest-to-reach individuals and residents of remote areas infrequently. The article discusses the obstacles to the effective functioning of the PES, the factors that contribute to the PES’ successes and failures, and the consequences for young NEETs of remaining outside of institutional support systems.

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“…The second discussion concerns the problem of care avoiders (Elissen et al, 2011; Schout et al, 2011), homeless people who do not use social services. It is argued that some homeless people do not enter care, cannot enter care or are denied continuing care (Maeseele et al, 2013). Care avoiders seem to be a problem category adopted by service providers and practitioners to organize and encode members of particular populations on the basis of their relationships with welfare services (Cortis, 2012; Elissen et al, 2013).…”

Section: Voluntariness and Homelessnessmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We did not study the perspectives and agency of service users or those labelled as care avoiders (Maeseele et al, 2013). As clients themselves also influence the role of suppliers as gatekeepers (Minas, 2006), an interesting strand for further research lies in the construction of the perspective of service users and the question how they experience paternalism and voluntariness in practice.…”

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Voluntariness as legitimation for social work interventions: A case study in Flemish homelessness care

Maeseele

Roose

Bie

2014

International Social Work

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Based on research into homelessness care, in this article we discuss the dominant interpretation of voluntariness as an individual characteristic. It will be demonstrated that this conceptualization runs the risk of becoming a tool to select those clients for whom short-term reachable goals can be set, and that clients are obliged to accept the conditions which are set by social work initiatives. We argue for an understanding of voluntariness as an appeal to social work’s commitment to social problems and aim to encourage dialogue about the grounds for, and meaning of, interventions in people’s life stories.

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On the frontline or on the side-line? Homelessness care and care avoiders

Abstract: Homelessness is a social problem which is subject to many definitional issues and problems.These problems can be discerned on both the conceptual and the practical level (Hopper, 1997

Cited by 14 publications

References 24 publications

A scoping study: children, policy and cultural shifts in homelessness services in South Australia: are children still falling through the gaps?

A scoping study: children, policy and cultural shifts in homelessness services in South Australia: are children still falling through the gaps?

Outreach Practices of Public Employment Services Targeted at NEET Youth in Poland

Voluntariness as legitimation for social work interventions: A case study in Flemish homelessness care

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