Canadian Service Providers’ Perceptions of Barriers and Support Gaps in Housing and Mental Health

Kerman, Nick; Sirohi, Reena; Curwood, Susan Eckerle; Trainor, John

doi:10.7870/cjcmh-2017-009

Cited by 12 publications

(13 citation statements)

References 30 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Immigrant service providers in Canada take a leading role in providing immigrant resettlement services and support for social, economic, and cultural integration into host societies (Kerman et al . ; Maximova & Krahn ). Alberta is a Canadian province with one of the fastest growing populations of foreign‐born nationals; in 2013 and 2014 the proportion of immigrants preparing to settle in Alberta was 14.1% and 16.3%, respectively (Statistics Canada ).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Access and utilization of mental health services for immigrants and refugees: Perspectives of immigrant service providers

Salami

Salma

Hegadoren

2018

Int J Mental Health Nurs

131

107

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Immigrant and refugee populations experience life stressors due to difficult migration journeys and challenges in leaving one country and adapting to another. These life stressors result in adverse mental health outcomes when coupled with a lack of adequate support-enhancing resources. One area of support is access to and use of mental health services to prevent and address mental health concerns. Immigrant service providers in Canada support the integration and overall well-being of newcomers. This study focuses on immigrant service providers' perceptions of access to and use of mental health services for immigrants and refugees in Alberta. A qualitative descriptive design was used to collect and analyse the perspectives of 53 immigrant service providers recruited from nine immigrant serving agencies in Alberta between November 2016 and January 2017. Data were collected using a combination of individual interviews and focus groups, followed by thematic data analysis to identify relevant themes. Barriers to access and use of mental health services include language barriers, cultural interpretations of mental health, stigma around mental illness, and fear of negative repercussions when living with a mental illness. Strategies to improve mental health service delivery include developing community-based services, attending to financial barriers, training immigrant service providers on mental health, enhancing collaboration across sectors in mental health service delivery, and advancing the role of interpreters and cultural brokers. Overall, immigrant service providers present a nuanced view of the complex and inter-related barriers immigrants and refugees experience and identify potential approaches to enhancing mental health service delivery.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Access and utilization of mental health services for immigrants and refugees: Perspectives of immigrant service providers

Salami

Salma

Hegadoren

2018

Int J Mental Health Nurs

131

107

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…While the structure and framing of models of interventions presented in the evidence were varied, common components were linked to the effective provision of support to populations with complex support needs. Collaborative interagency models were defined as partnerships with shared understanding and commitment (Davidson et al, 2014;Gardiner et al, 2017;Kerman et al, 2017). These models typically involved frequent multidisciplinary and multiagency meetings (Ahmed et al, 2016;Campbell et al, 2017;Henning, 2016) or multiagency learning groups that encouraged practitioners to critically reflect on collaboration with partner agencies and exchange professional expertise .…”

Section: Service Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Interagency collaboration was further enhanced by secure information-sharing systems (Barbabella et al, 2017; Centre for Disability Research and Policy, University of Sydney CDRP and Young People in Nursing Homes National Alliance YPINHNA (2014); Bruns et al, 2015;Morton, 2017), shared practice guidelines and formal protocols (Duffy et al, 2016;Mason et al, 2018;McIntyre et al, 2017), streamlining of administrative processes (Davidson et al, 2014;McKinnon et al, 2016) and allowing sufficient time to collaborate and for team-building (Keesler, 2014;Lee et al, 2013)-all of which required adequate funding (Kerman et al, 2017;Landsdell, 2018;Till et al, 2015). Co-location of services to provide a single point of access and a gateway to a variety of services (Dooris et al, 2013;Dyer and Briddle, 2016;Hardwick, 2015;Whiteford et al, 2013) was identified as effective in facilitating improved information sharing between service users and services and between services and partner agencies (Petch et al, 2013).…”

Section: Service Levelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated responses for people with cognitive disability and complex support needs: Factors and principles

Dowse

Dillon-Savage²,

Dew

et al. 2020

Evidence Base

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

People with cognitive disability who have complex support needs typically engage with multiple services across social care domains that operate in silos. These services are individually ill-equipped to adequately recognise the presence or impact of disability and respond to the breadth, depth and intersectional nature of people's support needs. This lack of appropriate recognition and response often in turn works to further exacerbate the complexity of a person's support needs. This paper reports on a systematic review of current national and international evidence addressing good practice in supporting people with complex support needs. The review assesses evidence in policy and practice in disciplines including homelessness, child protection, disability, social work, youth studies, health, mental health and drug and alcohol to identify key factors that facilitate or hamper person-centred integrated social care. An analytic frame adapted from Ecological Systems Theory is deployed to present the key factors identified to shape responsive support at the level of people, services and systems. The paper concludes with a discussion of three key principles synthesised from the review as the crucial underpinnings of a responsive social care system for people with cognitive disability and complex support needs.

show abstract

“…C'est ce que laisse croire un sondage pancanadien où des intervenants du domaine insistent sur l'importance des relations de collaboration et de partenariats pour faciliter la réalisation de leur travail (Kerman et coll. ). De plus, des dimensions de ce tissage de relations peu formalisées et souvent personnalisées apparaissent aussi à l’œuvre dans d'autres villes comme l'indiquent des recherches récentes réalisées à Toronto (LeMoine ), à Washington (Simpson ), à Paris (Cefaï ) ou encore dans différentes municipalités de l’État de Victoria en Australie (Grace, Coventry, et Batterham ).…”

Section: Analyseunclassified

Se coordonner pour aider les sans‐abri : les visages variés du travail relationnel de première ligne

Farinas¹

2018

Can Public Adm

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Sommaire Des praticiens de première ligne réalisent parfois une coordination en tentant d'aider des sans‐abri montréalais. Souvent de nature interorganisationnelle et intersectorielle, elle repose sur un travail relationnel multidirectionnel et multidimensionnel qui ne va pas de soi. Cet article vise à enrichir la compréhension de cette coordination qui peut se produire pendant les relations quotidiennes, en misant sur une approche interactionniste ainsi que sur les perspectives de ces praticiens. Il expose trois de ces dernières (l'ouverture et l'engagement, le réseautage et la procédure). Cela peut éclairer la dynamique relationnelle des réseaux émergents auxquels ils participent.

show abstract

Canadian Service Providers’ Perceptions of Barriers and Support Gaps in Housing and Mental Health

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

Access and utilization of mental health services for immigrants and refugees: Perspectives of immigrant service providers

Access and utilization of mental health services for immigrants and refugees: Perspectives of immigrant service providers

Integrated responses for people with cognitive disability and complex support needs: Factors and principles

Se coordonner pour aider les sans‐abri : les visages variés du travail relationnel de première ligne

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About