Question

Do we, as a mobile team type 2b, focus sufficiently on the SMI (serious mental illness or disorder) target group? 

Problem description

Within the mobile teams there are no inclusion criteria, and by consequence our population is very mixed.  This is consistent with the vision within Article 107 regarding low threshold accessibility, but it also requires a certain expertise within the mobile teams

Impact – effect

The question may be asked whether we are not too busy with social / fourth world problems instead of severe psychiatric disorders. This estimation is difficult to make and requires some guidelines.

Within our teams, there is insufficient expertise for certain psychiatric problems, eg. drug addiction. The broad inflow causes a high waiting list which, in turn, does not reflect the vision of a low-threshold services

To do

To do: creating a better understanding of the notion SMI within the teams.  Not working with exclusion criteria but create guidelines regarding clarification of our target group.  The internship in NHN was inspiring in this regard: they work with a few inflow criteria, a few target groups – for whom other services are involved – are kept apart (autism, personality disorders, persons with a forensic prehistory).  The FACT neighbourhood teams focus exclusively on the SMI target population

Hyperlink

http://www.mobileteamsconnecting.eu/bijlagen/H43%20-%20doelgroep,%20instroom%20criteria%20(NHN).pdf

Theme

Starting up and further development/deployment of mobile teams

Topic

critical success factors for starting up and further development/deployment

Référence – contact

Eline Claeys, Inge Lippens

Mobile team

2b

Project

Gent-Eeklo (PAKT)

Intership abroad - place

Noord-Holland-Noord

Date

February 2015