Cabrio Teams, Primary Care for Homeless People In Belgium- Limburg

Cabrio aims to prevent homelessness with a cross-sector, multidisciplinary and autonomous team that establishes contact with homeless people in their living environment in an outreach manner, offers customized support and connects to social facilities. The team aims to help homeless people in finding sustainable housing. In the Belgian province of Limburg there are 3 Cabrio teams that serve 5 local authorities. The welfare organisation CAW Limburg coordinates the 3 Cabrio teams. Cabrio is active within the framework that is offered by the Flemish Action Plan to combat homelessness 2020-2024. h... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Kristoffels, Theo
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Verlag/Hrsg.: Ubiquity Press
Sprache: Englisch
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Cabrio aims to prevent homelessness with a cross-sector, multidisciplinary and autonomous team that establishes contact with homeless people in their living environment in an outreach manner, offers customized support and connects to social facilities. The team aims to help homeless people in finding sustainable housing. In the Belgian province of Limburg there are 3 Cabrio teams that serve 5 local authorities. The welfare organisation CAW Limburg coordinates the 3 Cabrio teams. Cabrio is active within the framework that is offered by the Flemish Action Plan to combat homelessness 2020-2024. https://www.departementwvg.be/welzijn-en-samenleving/welzijnswerk/dak-en-thuisloosheid Objectives: •Making contact in the social environment of homeless people and building a close relationship with homeless people. •Offer support in various life domains and realize a connection with services (network). Guarantee continuity in care. •Strengthening the personal network of clients. •Working on sustainable housing with social and other housing services. •Working on connection through small-scale projects with a high level of participation of the target group. This is part of the socialization of care. •Signalling structural barriers to local policy makers. Methodical framework: Cabrio works in an outreaching and multidisciplinary way and uses methods from addiction care, counselling for people with psychological vulnerability and welfare work. Cabrio works from a shared vision of homelessness. Outreach work: Counsellors contact clients in the public space, at their home or in the semi-public space (e.g. institution, facility) with a participative basic attitude. They focus on making a connection with 'distrustful' clients Multidisciplinary work: To aim for care continuity the Cabrio team brings together different disciplines: general social work (CAW Limburg), addiction care (ZorGGroepZin), psychiatric home care (Beschut Wonen, Mobiel Herstelteam Psychiatrie), special youth care (CANO Pieter Simenon), outreach work ...