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Mental Health: Discharge Planning
There is a important need to provides discharge planning and community coordination services to persons with a serious mental illness being released from institutions. All clients should receive a plan consisting of: community supports in their home community (services and family linkages); housing options; medical/psychiatric supports; and, emergency contact information.

Unfortunately, discharge programs are very inconsistent across the country and non-existent in some regions. There may be a list of support services, rehabilitation programs and self-help groups available at the hospital but there are usually long waiting lists for supportive housing such as group homes, a boarding house, an apartment, a room, or shared accommodations.

Even if housing was available, and most often it is not, group homes may vary considerably in the degree of support they offer. Supervision may range from 24 hours a day to one person dropping in periodically. There ...may or may not be some in-house counselling or life skills training. Boarding houses and shared accommodation typically offer little supervision, and housing in the form of an apartment or flat would require an ability to function well in an independent situation.

AUTHOR: Power, Asetha (2008) Homeless Hub. [Show More][Show Less]


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