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PERSON
FIRST - Erasmus Eu Project
SOME REFLEXIONS & QUESTIONS
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we
assist in Europe to these contradiction
more it increases the
number
of the people in situation of poverty and
extreme poverty, more their problems and
needs are complex both social and sanitary,
strictly tightly connected and
more
decreasing
the services, the
personnel, the budget, the investments and the
strategies.
WHY ? ? ?
The
passage from daily worry to desperation and
passage to an action of violence against himself
or against others, damaging himself or others,
this passage above all if in situation of
preceding vulnerability, it is not so rare then.
Worsening of mental condition aggravates the way
a person functions at family, at work etc. which
ultimately may result in relations falling
apart, loss of work, consequently loss of a
home, loss a family, loss health and pleasure of
life.
This
in turn is an extreme stress in itself with all
the consequences stress has on a person and
his/her mental condition.
So we
have in fact a vicious circle, a spiral where
the original financial stress of austerity
generates a psychical suffering, and those
mental problems generating further material
deprivation and further mental degradation
The
‘life expectancy’ in homeless
is reduced of the around 40/50%, living in
permanence in a situation suicidal that at times
it concludes also with acting out.
Barriers and
discriminate access
to health /mental health services
:
- Access to the health and mental health
services in the city and in hospital; it’s very
difficult for these people, because of the
different barriers, both individual and
institutional
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Impossible for workers in health services to
offer more time because the reduction of
personnel and bureaucratisation of the time,
that make impossible to stablish a very
relationship
- Unpreparedness to approach and to work with
this people, outreaching where they are
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Difficult collaboration for integrated and
sustainable care and cure ...
- Frequent burnout of the operators, working
with these persons
PERSON
FIRST and DIGNITY -
WELL-BEING projects is
an opportunity to:
2.
Highlight non-observance of fundamental rights.
3.
Cultivate connections between health and social
providers of services.
4.
To clarify the consequences of reduced funding
for services for
marginalised people – both in the
short and long-term.
5.
Reduce the negative consequences because of
discriminatory and
stigmatising social policies.
6.
Lobby European Institutions, regarding
priorities in social & health
policy.
7.
Identify and disseminate information about
innovative practices.
8.
Plan, prepare and pilot training, capacity
building, exchanges experiences and personnel
among European colleagues that work across
health and social services with socially
marginalised people.
9.
Facilitate networking between public and
private, social and health/mental health
services.
10. Reach
practical operational arrangements, beyond
institutional and official policies.
ETHOS classifies
homeless people according to their living
situation:
•
rooflessness
(without a shelter of any kind, sleeping rough)
•
houselessness
(with a place to sleep but temporary in
institutions / shelters)
•
living in
insecure
housing (threatened with severe exclusion due to
insecure tenancies, eviction, domestic
violence)
•
living in
inadequate
housing (in caravans on illegal campsites, in
unfit housing, in extreme overcrowding
700,000
homeless people in Europe. (2021)
“a home for all by 2030”
:
the
EU has launched the European platform
on combating homelessness !...
“the
most extreme form of social exclusion”.....
is homelessness declaration of
Nicholas Schimdt
EU Commissione
HOME sweet home
:
missing or is not sufficiently
emphasized the affective dimension,
because even in an
unhealthy house you can live very strong and
intense emotional relationships that allow will
grow strong and healthy.
mental health
as an
integral and essential component of health,
indeed,
there is no health
without mental health.
Mental health is more than the absence of mental
disorders.
The WHO
constitution states: "Health
is a state of complete physical, mental and
social
well-being
and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity."
Mental health
is a state of well-being in which an
individual realizes his or her own abilities,
cope with the normal stresses of life, can work
productively and is able to make a
contribution to his or her community. In this
positive sense, mental health is the foundation
for individual well-being and the effective
functioning of a community.
More than
450 million
people suffer from mental disorders
WHO
More than
970 million
1/8 people suffer from mental disorder
WHO
Many more people
have mental problems.
Mental health is
determined by socio-economic, biological and
environmental factors.
The vulnerability
is not a characteristic of homeless but of
person
everyone has
his Achilles heel but not all of them are
injured.
Q U E S T I O N S : about
EMERGENCY SERVICES are the
interventions
-
integrate social & health ? . . . ,
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coherent with real request of person in
need ? . . .,
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respectful of the dignity ? . . . ,
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accessible to marginalized and excluded
people ?...,
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are sufficient and adequate services in
emergency center?
