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HOMELESSNESS IN COPENHAGEN

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THE DANISH WELFARE SOCIETY

• The Scandinavian welfare model• A century of political compromises• A finely-meshed social system • The system covers everyone – it is universal • Citizens are economically secure in connection

with illness, unemployment and old age • Financed via general taxation• Social service tasks are carried out by the state and

municipalities


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ROUTES IN THE SYSTEM FOR THE HOMELESS

The initial contact• Shelters• Night cafés• Street-leveloutreach work

Residential offers to the homeless •Own home

•Special housing: -Special houses -Shared housing

• Specialised residentialoffers

Assessment

The social effortsSocial centres Alcohol treatment Addiction centres Substance abuse treatment Centres for the disabled Psychiatric treatmentHousing agency Support-contact persons

Assessm

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THE INITIAL CONTACT

• Temporary residential offers- Shelters- Crisis centres for women

• Night cafés

• Street-level outreach work- The social aspect- The medical aspect

• Forthcoming Health Room


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SHELTERS

Purpose:• Assessment and implementation of plan of action, in co-operation with

relevant players

Tasks:• Help the users to mobilise their own resources• Help the users to become active in relation to their own situation and

possibilities• Transfer to other offers

Facts:• Number of places: approx. 545• Average duration of stay: 166 days• Approx. 1/3 remain in shelter less than 30 days


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NIGHT CAFÉS

Purpose: To give citizens who do not visit shelters and who does not have orcannot stay in a home of their own, a roof over their heads for the night. Guidance function, if the citizen desires this.

Tasks:• Shelter• Warmth• Showers• Food• Guidance• Non-compulsory employment offers


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STREET OUTREACH WORK

Purpose: To create possibilities and understanding for outcastcitizens, so that they can makeuse of and benefit from the system's offers.


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THE SOCIAL WORK ASPECT

Task: To establish contact with and create possibilitiesfor citizens who remain on the street more thantransiently and seem to need help.

Methods:• Outreach work• Advanced case processing• Support and contact persons


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THE MEDICAL ASPECT

Task: To offer medical help on the street to homeless people who cannot gettheir medical problems treated through the ordinary general practice system.

Methods:• Close co-operation with social workers, refuges, night cafés and other

relevant players, to create a co-ordinated effort• Build up and enhance close working relations with the health sector and

social workers• Provide emergency treatment, e.g. treatment of substance abuse and

the consequences of substance abuse• Outreach towards the target group


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HEALTH ROOM

Purpose: • To increase efforts to help drug addicts in the area• To make the area more peaceful, safe and clean for

residents

Method/tasks:• Sores treatment• Emergency treatment for minor injuries • General health offers • Advice on treatment possibilities• Advice on social offers


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RESIDENTIAL OFFERS FOR THE HOMELESS

• Own home

• Special housing - Special houses - Shared housing

• Specialised residential offers


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OWN HOME

A route to your own home

Shelter

Caseworker at social centre

Housing agency

Own home

Support and contact person

Treatment

Housing counsellor

Caseworker

The social work efforts


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SPECIAL HOUSING

Special houses:Area with independent houses which can cope with homeless behaviour.

Shared housing: Residential offers to userswho need to have otherpeople around them whomthey can identify with.


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SPECIALISED RESIDENTIAL OFFERS

• Shared housing • Residential home offers

Main purpose: To prepare users for life in their own homes.

Principal tasks:• Social worker support – Housing training• Care offers • Network creation

Facts:Number of places: approx. 315


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