Service User Involvement
eBook - PDF

Service User Involvement

Reaching the Hard to Reach in Supported Housing

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Service User Involvement

Reaching the Hard to Reach in Supported Housing

About this book

Involving service users in both day-to-day and long-term strategic planning is known to empower clients and result in improved services, yet there is a lack of practical guidance on how this can be achieved. Drawing on original research, this book offers imaginative and effective strategies for consulting with service users who have been historically difficult to engage with, including homeless people, care leavers, ex-offenders, travellers, women escaping domestic violence and black and minority ethnic groups. The authors explore traditional consultation methods such as meetings and questionnaires, as well as informal and creative activities such as writing, art, photography and video work as ways of gathering clients' views. They make practical suggestions as to how organizational structures and individual attitudes can be changed to overcome the barriers to successful consultation.Including many real-life examples of good practice, the book is a step-by-step guide to creating a complete service user involvement strategy and also contains exercises for managers to use with their teams. It is an essential resource for social workers, housing officers and other professionals working with disadvantaged and marginalised groups in supported housing.

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Table of contents

  1. front cover
  2. Service User Involvement: Reaching the Hard to Reach in Supported Housing
  3. Contents
  4. PREFACE
  5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  6. INTRODUCTION
  7. 1 Models of Service User Participation
  8. 2 The ROCC Research Project
  9. 3 Barriers and Enablers to Effective Service User Consultation
  10. 4 Methods that Enable Client Consultation
  11. 5 A Two-tier Model for Consultation for Strategic Planning
  12. 6 The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
  13. 7 The Way Ahead
  14. 8 Devising Your Own Consultation Strategy
  15. APPENDIX A – QUESTIONNAIRE FOR PROVIDERS
  16. APPENDIX B – VALUES STATEMENT
  17. APPENDIX C – CALCULATING THE COST OF CLIENT CONSULTATION
  18. REFERENCES
  19. USEFUL WEBSITES
  20. SUBJECT INDEX
  21. AUTHOR INDEX
  22. back cover