At the crossroads of the Paavo- programmes Challenges for Paavo III Perspectives on Housing First in Finland Riitta Granfelt “Long-term Homelessness and Finnish Adaptations of Housing First Model” Academy of Finland

Themes of the presentation Gender perspective Young adults living at housing units Tacit knowledge Diversity of Housing First –adaptations Back to Basics

Paavos lacking gender perspective? Time to highligt the need for housing services and related social and health care services for women at the margins of society `Women-specific´ as part of housing social work? Connecting basic and special levels of expertise in the mental health and substance abuse services to respond to trauma experiences

Young adults at the Housing units Social integration as a goal of housing social work at housing units Transitions for the most marginalised young adults to scattered housing Development of floating support that works from the point of mentally fragile drug abusers

Tacit knowledge as a resource Unique professional skills, understanding and know-how about housing social work for the use of practice research and professional training Vague and unclear professional identity of the housing advisors, housing councellors, housing social workers; connections with social work education and research at the university level

Diversity of HF -adaptations/mixed models F.eg. Housing First or Desistance First? Preventive housing social work at institutional settings, like prisons, mental hospitals, drug rehabilitation institutions… > paths to `housing readiness´ for scattered housing Not staircase -models, but path- (or mixed) models: transitions and recovery processes; f.eg. from congregate housing to scattered housing

Basics of Homelessness work Ontological security Getting rid of stigmatisation ”Otherness” Meaning of Life Recovery as part of Everyday Life ”life-long process” One´s own flat as ”holding/facilitating environment”, if not experienced as home