RECO: Resilient Communities by Sustainable Welfare Transformation

• 17th European Research Conference on HomelessnessLeuven, September 14th and 15th, 2023Marcus Knutagård, Arne Kristiansen & Cecilia HeuleRECO: Resilient Communities by Sustainable Welfare TransformationHomelessness is an extensive societal problem in Sweden which poses major challenges for the social services in developing sustainable and effective methods that can meet the service user’s needs. The RECO project is based on practice research and has mutual learning at its core. The aim is to investigate and analyse how evidence-based methods like Housing First can be sustained within the social services and how implemented methods can become resilient towards external pressures. The research questions are:•What factors facilitate or hinders high programme fidelity and what are the Housing First tenants’ experiences of the programme?•What conditions are beneficial when trying work knowledge-based in the social services efforts to combat homelessness?•What methods enables participation and involvement with service users?•What impact and consequences do the participation have on the involved social workers and service users? Our ambition is to present the ongoing research project and also briefly present the new homelessness strategy in Sweden.

• Marcus Knutagård, Arne Kristiansen & Cecilia HeuleRECO: Resilient Communities by Sustainable Welfare TransformationHomelessness is an extensive societal problem in Sweden which poses major challenges for the social services in developing sustainable and effective methods that can meet the service user’s needs. The RECO project is based on practice research and has mutual learning at its core. The aim is to investigate and analyse how evidence-based methods like Housing First can be sustained within the social services and how implemented methods can become resilient towards external pressures. The research questions are:• What factors facilitate or hinders high programme fidelity and what are the Housing First tenants’ experiences of the programme?• What conditions are beneficial when trying work knowledge-based in the social services efforts to combat homelessness?• What methods enables participation and involvement with service users?• What impact and consequences do the participation have on the involved social workers and service users? Our ambition is to present the ongoing research project and also briefly present the new homelessness strategy in Sweden.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialt arbete (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Work (hsv//eng)

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