Findings of a Formative Evaluation of a Transitional Housing Program for Forensic Patients Discharged into the Community

Cherner, Rebecca; Nandlal, Joan; Ecker, John; Aubry, Tim; Pettey, Donna

doi:10.1080/10509674.2012.754826

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“…In addition to evaluating client outcomes, an evaluation of implementation was also conducted as part of the research on the pilot program. The results of the implementation evaluation, with a more in-depth description of the program including its structure and delivered services, are presented in a previously published article ( Cherner, Nandlal, Ecker, Aubry, & Pettey, 2013 ). The initial placements occurred in 2007 and data collection for the study ended in September 2010.…”

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Transitioning into the Community: Outcomes of a Pilot Housing Program for Forensic Patients

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International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

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The Transitional Rehabilitation Housing Pilot (TRHP) was designed to transition hospitalized forensic patients to the community. Twenty clients and their clinicians in two Ontario cities completed measures on functioning, substance use, recovery, social support, and quality of life at admission to the program and then every 6 months until 18 months post-admission. Clients also responded to open-ended questions on the impact of the program and living in the community on their recovery. Three (15%) clients re-offended. Eleven clients (55%) experienced rehospitalization; however, brief rehospitalization was seen as part of the recovery process. Level of community functioning was stable across time and 35% of clients had a decrease in the restrictiveness of their disposition order. Clients described numerous characteristics of community living that contributed to improvements in functioning, such as integration into the community, social contact, and newfound independence. Some aspects of TRHP that encouraged recovery included developing new skills and knowledge, staff support, and the programming that engaged clients in treatment and recovery-oriented activities. Findings suggest that forensic patients can transition successfully into the community with appropriate support and housing.

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Transitioning into the Community: Outcomes of a Pilot Housing Program for Forensic Patients

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Ecker

et al. 2014

International Journal of Forensic Mental Health

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“…This kind of staff support is a central concept in current literature considering transitional housing in mental health care and, particularly, forensic transitions. In specific, Cherner, Nandlal, Ecker, Aubry, and Pettey (2013) describe staff “openness and availability” as key informers for supporting therapeutic relationships with individuals during transition (p. 171). While more structural in design, Melnick (2016) describes supporting forensic transition in Florida using a system of progressive levels driven by the relationship between consumer and counselor.…”

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Transitional housing in forensic mental health: considering consumer lived experience

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Background For individuals involved in the forensic mental health system, access to transitional housing can offer a bridge between custody and independence. Using a methodology consistent with interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA), this study considers the meaning associated with such participation. In this Canadian study, data was collected via interview with six individuals ( n = 6) who resided, for a minimum six (6) months, in justice focused transitional housing that involved a partnership between a rural forensic mental health care facility and a nearby urban transitional housing provider. Results Following each participant interview, data was transcribed verbatim and coded for themes. Multiple methods were employed to support trustworthiness. Results indicate that participation enabled enhanced social participation, self-esteem/efficacy, community integration and renewal of daily living skills. Participants identified that involvement in justice focused transitional housing enabled development of community living skills, cultivated self-confidence and enhanced personal resilience in their transition from a secure forensic mental health facility to more independent community tenure. Conclusions Participants in this research clearly identified the importance of transitional housing programs in supporting their move from a forensic mental health facility to the community. Not all forensic involved individuals will need this type or level of support to support their transition. Practically, however, the nature of forensic hospitalization can present real challenges for occupational participation and maintenance of community living skills. Transitional housing, accountable to unique forensic mental health and justice inputs, can offer a valuable bridge to the community.

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“…Legislative best practices see that forensic mental health patients transfer from the larger institution into 24-hour supervised community living homes (Cherner et al, 2013).…”

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“…After living in congregate housing through TRHP, residents transfer to satellite apartments (Cherner et al, 2013). Satellite apartments are units in private apartments operated by service provider agencies, which are also responsible for meeting with residents.…”

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The Institutional Remains: Transinstitutionalization of Disability & Sexuality

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This research investigates access to sexuality for disabled people in Ontario. To understand sexual access, this research uses frameworks of disability justice and critical carceral studies to make explicit the pervasive the ongoing institutionalization of disabled people. Critically analyzing transinstitutionalization policy reveals surveillance, spatial regulation, and the criminalization of sex work as prohibitive barriers in disabled people's realization of their sexual desires. The City of Ottawa serves as a case study to interrogate the municipal regulation of sexuality through Minimum Separation Distance bylaws. The findings of this study illustrate the shared use of policy tools to invisibilize disabled people and sex workers through spatial regulation and segregation. These shared policy tools demonstrate the need for coalitional politics between sex workers and disabled people. The harms associated with transinstitutionalization and criminalization demand urgent action. Abolition responds to this urgency, demanding decriminalization, deinstitutionalization and decarceration.

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Findings of a Formative Evaluation of a Transitional Housing Program for Forensic Patients Discharged into the Community

Cited by 6 publications

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Transitioning into the Community: Outcomes of a Pilot Housing Program for Forensic Patients

Transitioning into the Community: Outcomes of a Pilot Housing Program for Forensic Patients

Transitional housing in forensic mental health: considering consumer lived experience

The Institutional Remains: Transinstitutionalization of Disability & Sexuality

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