Question

Can a 2b-team continue to work with a not clearly defined target audience?

Problem description

The mobile teams Gent - Eeklo have no clear definition of the target group except those described in the 107 project  proposal.  Namely,  from 16 years with no clear upper limit, and there must be a chronic psychiatric problem, and the care provided should be an added value (subsidiarity principle).

Impact - effect

Because of a lack of clearly defined target group (e.g. generalist approach instead of a categorical one), the consequence is that very rapidly the teams are confronted with a waiting list, the upper limit of the caseload is reached, the individual team members should bea jack of all trades.   There is no exclusion based on pathology, it is expected to be familiar with both the regular psychiatric problems as the more specific problems like e.g. intellectual disability, autism, illegal drug addiction, combinations of specific problems, etc.

To do

In the project proposal the option was to get started with for all clients, regarding their problems.

To do 1.  Adjusting the 107 project proposal and opt for a more categorical approach

To do 2. Importing knowledge and expertise in the teams by training individual team members

To do 3. Collaborate with several different line services and seek for a clear delineation of who will be in charge of what type of care (e.g. welfare services  for administration, housing, … - ambulatory mental health services for therapy, for some specific job-related trajectories, … - work and employment services for other specific job-related trajectories and activation, … - 2b teams in case of psychiatric problems, …).

Theme

Starting up and further development/deployment of mobile teams

Topic

critical success factors for starting up and further development/deployment

Reference -  contact

Dirk Baeyens, Nele Van Hijfte

Mobile team

2B

Project

Gent-Eeklo (PAKT)

Intership abroad - place

Birmingham (AOT Matthews Centre)

Date

November 2012