Supported Housing
Country
ItalyProject Description
The project offers mutual support amongst people with mental health problems in finding flats in the community where to live together. The flats usually belong to the users and to their families, sometimes to the municipality. The project is run by AISMe with the support of the local health and social services.
Project Aims
The project aims to give more choice and autonomy to people with regard to housing.
Areas
Health, Housing, Social services
Effectiveness
The project's activities, methodologies and approaches are useful with regard to the needs of people with mental health problems who are living for many years in rehabilitation services and wish a live more independently.
The project's costs (human and financial resources) are very high but correspond to the benefits (increased social inclusion) resulting from it.
Sustainability
The project's impacts are in line with the needs of people with mental health problems, in access to housing.
Financial and human resources are necessary and may come from the health and social services. It is necessary that cooperation is established between all stakeholders (users, relatives, services and municipality).
Innovation
For Italy and Tuscany this project is innovative as well as its methodology of delivery to people with mental health problems.
It is not very effective in terms of quantitative results but very effective in terms of qualitative results (better autonomy and choice, increased social inclusion through better coordination of services and associations). There are many benefits of the innovative approach for people with mental health problems at individual and collective level
Added Value
The project's activities, methodologies and impacts make a significant contribution with regard to the needs of people with mental health problems, in access to a wide range of services, health and social services, employment, education, training services, transport, leisure activities etc., and with regard to already existing practices and policies in the area of social exclusion.
Transferability
The project and its related materials are potentially transferable to other countries and communities, yet flexible and adaptable to local conditions facilitating the feeling of ownership.
It is practical, i.e. low in complexity, manageable within local resources and reasonable with regard to human resources and financial costs.
The project does not contain general and accredited guidelines for replication, including statements as to which elements in the programme are vital for maintaining its effectiveness and which elements are open for adaptation to local needs.
Mainstreaming Potential
The project is relevant to national and local policy; it has an added value compared to policies deficits and there is a coherent strategy of the project's incorporation into respective policies.
Costs of the Project
30.000 Euros per year
People involved in the Project (number of people and profession)
AISMe, three users and related family members
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Project
Strength of the project: independence of people with mental health problems.
Weakness: intrusion of relatives.
Contact Person for the Project
Miccinesi Donatella, Stefania DeiVia Forlanini 64
50100 Florence
Italy
Tel.: + 390 338 2998938
Fax: + 390 55 413049
donatella.miccinesi@virgilio.it