TY - JOUR
T1 - I Have My Own Lease-So Why the Service Plan Again? Perspectives on Service Planning in Supportive Housing
AU - Choy-Brown, Mimi
AU - Hamovitch, Emily K.
AU - Cuervo, Carolina
AU - Stanhope, Victoria
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - Objective: This study aimed to understand multiple stakeholder perspectives implementing a recoveryoriented approach to service planning in supportive housing programs serving people with lived experience of mental illnesses. Method: Multiple stakeholders (N = 57) were recruited to participate in focus groups (N = 8), including 4 with tenants, 2 with service coordinators, 1 with supervisors, and 1 with leadership. Supportive housing programs were purposively sampled from a recovery-oriented organization serving 1,500 people annually. Stakeholders' experiences with service planning and implementing a recovery-oriented approach to service planning were explored. The authors conducted inductive thematic analyses combined with a conceptual matrix, which yielded themes across and within multiple stakeholder focus groups. Results: Three themes emerged: (a) an institutional reminder-service planning experiences elicited negative emotions and served to remind people of experiences in institutional settings, (b) one-size-fits-all service planning-stakeholders perceived the use of quality assurance tools within the planning process as rigid to others' interests beyond their own, and (c) rules and regulations-reconciling funder requirements (e.g., completion dates) while also tailoring services to tenants' particular situations challenged providers. Conclusions and Implications for Practice: Even in a recovery-oriented organization, findings suggest that service planning in supportive housing has limitations in responding to each tenant's iterative recovery process. Further, in this context where people can make their home, stakeholders questioned whether the very presence of ongoing service planning activities is problematic. However, tenant-service coordinator relationships predicated on mutual respect and esteem overcame some service planning limitations.
AB - Objective: This study aimed to understand multiple stakeholder perspectives implementing a recoveryoriented approach to service planning in supportive housing programs serving people with lived experience of mental illnesses. Method: Multiple stakeholders (N = 57) were recruited to participate in focus groups (N = 8), including 4 with tenants, 2 with service coordinators, 1 with supervisors, and 1 with leadership. Supportive housing programs were purposively sampled from a recovery-oriented organization serving 1,500 people annually. Stakeholders' experiences with service planning and implementing a recovery-oriented approach to service planning were explored. The authors conducted inductive thematic analyses combined with a conceptual matrix, which yielded themes across and within multiple stakeholder focus groups. Results: Three themes emerged: (a) an institutional reminder-service planning experiences elicited negative emotions and served to remind people of experiences in institutional settings, (b) one-size-fits-all service planning-stakeholders perceived the use of quality assurance tools within the planning process as rigid to others' interests beyond their own, and (c) rules and regulations-reconciling funder requirements (e.g., completion dates) while also tailoring services to tenants' particular situations challenged providers. Conclusions and Implications for Practice: Even in a recovery-oriented organization, findings suggest that service planning in supportive housing has limitations in responding to each tenant's iterative recovery process. Further, in this context where people can make their home, stakeholders questioned whether the very presence of ongoing service planning activities is problematic. However, tenant-service coordinator relationships predicated on mutual respect and esteem overcame some service planning limitations.
KW - Recovery-oriented practice
KW - service planning
KW - supportive housing
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U2 - 10.1037/prj0000202
DO - 10.1037/prj0000202
M3 - Review article
C2 - 27454816
AN - SCOPUS:84988864900
VL - 39
SP - 313
EP - 320
JO - Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
JF - Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal
SN - 1095-158X
IS - 4
ER -