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Collaboration and involvement of persons with lived experience in planning Canada’s At Home/Chez Soi project
Author(s): Geoffrey Nelson, Eric Macnaughton, Susan Eckerle Curwood, Nathalie Egalité, Jijian Voronka, Marie-Josée Fleury, Maritt Kirst, Linsay Flowers, Michelle Patterson, Michael Dudley, Myra Piat, Ph.D., Paula Goering
Publication Date: 2016
Planning the implementation of evidence-based mental health services entails commitment to both rigour and community relevance, which entails navigating the challenges of collaboration between professionals and community members in a planning environment which is neither ‘top-down’ nor ‘bottom-up’. This research focused on collaboration among different stakeholders (e.g. researchers, service-providers, persons with lived experience [PWLE]) at fiv...
Arriving at the End of a Newly Forged Path: Lessons from the Safety and Adverse Events Committee of the At Home/Chez Soi Project
Author(s): Diego S. Silva, Jimmy Bourque, Paula Goering, Ken A. Hahlweg, Vicky Stergiopoulos, David L. Streiner, Jijian Voronka
Publication Date: 2014
The At Home/Chez Soi (AHCS) project was a multisite pragmatic randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of providing housing and psychosocial support for individuals who were previously homeless and suffered from a moderate or severe psychiatric illness. Over a two-year period, the project provided rent subsidies and housing as well as either assertive community treatment or intensive case management to help meet mental health need...
Pathways into homelessness: Understanding how both individual and structural factors contribute to and sustain homelessness in Canada
Author(s): Myra Piat, Ph.D., Lauren Polvere, Maritt Kirst, Jijian Voronka, Denise Zabki
Publication Date: 2014
This qualitative study examined how homeless individuals with mental illness experience pathways into homelessness. Study participants were enrolled in the At Home/Chez Soi project, a Pan-Canadian Randomized Controlled Trial comparing the Housing First approach with Treatment as Usual for homeless individuals. This inquiry is grounded in social ecological perspective, which considers interactions between individual and structural factors. Finding...
Un/Helpful Help and Its Discontents: Peer Researchers Paying Attention to Street Life Narratives to Inform Social Work Policy and Practice
Author(s): Jijian Voronka, Deborah Wise Harris, Jill Grant, Janina Komaroff, Dawn Boylee, Arianna Kennedy
Publication Date: 2014
This qualitative study explores narrative interviews of street-involved individuals with mental health issues and reflects on how they speak to experiences of both helpful and unhelpful social and mental health service provisions, and the disconnections between what they articulate as needing, and what services and supports they are able to receive. The article draws on and contributes to the field of peer research as the authors use lived experi...