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The ‘Back From The Streets’ Project An alternative housing led approach in Hungary. Andrea Szabó Public Foundation for t he Homeless Hungary. Program context. From 2010 strong political pressure to reduce rough sleeping (mainly at visible places, city centres, public areas)
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The ‘Back From The Streets’ ProjectAn alternative housing led approach in Hungary Andrea Szabó Public Foundation for the Homeless Hungary
Program context • From 2010 strong political pressure to reduce rough sleeping (mainly at visible places, city centres, public areas) • New local and national law on the use of public places, new approach of (visible) homelessness by the police and local authorities • Strong need of service providers for recourses to finance reasonable and professional social work tools • New programs to help rough sleepers into appropriate accommodation
Program context: Activities of the Public FoundationfortheHomeless NGO role State -Agency role
Program background • Late 2010: • Remaining found from a closed program financed by the Ministry of Human Recources, coordinated by the Public Foundation • First consultations with the ministry to use the resource for the new issue (visible rough sleeping) • Early 2011: • Designing the call, developing the terms and conditions • Promoting the new program for the service providers (theapplicants) • From March to November 2011 • Dealing with administrative issues • Dealing with reduced found • December 2011 call for proposals • April 2012 final grant agreements • March – May 2012 start of supported programs • December 2012 – January 2013 closure of supported programs
Program details • The found • Source: National budget, Ministry of Human Resources • Amount: 104 million HUF ≈371,428 € • Supported programs • 18 programs: 7 in Budapest, 10 Cities in countryside • Target group • Pimarytargetgroup:209 chronic rough sleepers (109 living in cities in countryside, 100 living in Budapest) • Secondarytargetgroup:61 homeless people living in shelters (19 living in Cities in countryside, 42 living in Budapest)
Program details: locations Cityies incountryside: Szombathely, Mosonmagyaróvár, Veszprém, Székesfehérvár, Tatabánya, Kecskemét, Szolnok, Kazincbarcika, Debrecen, Nyíregyháza Budapest
X X Originalfigurefrom Dr. Volker Busch-Geertsema regular self- contained dwelling with rent contract regular self- contained dwelling with rent contract regular dwelling with (time-limited) occupation agree-ment based on special conditions Temporary shelter (service fee, strict rules, better living conditions) ‚Elsőként Lakhatás’ – in Hungary One-night Shelter (more rules, limited tolerance of alcohol, free service) shared housing, “training dwell-ings”, etc. flexible individual support in housing reception stage Easy access services (crisis shelters, few order, free service, tolerance of alcohol etc.) Street work homelessness Long term rough sleeping
An example: evaluation of aprevious housing led program • Program aim: promoting social inclusion and mainstream employment of homeless people • Found: co-financed by the EU and the state • Target group: homeless people using any service • Data collection: specific software designed for the programs • The database: 6 Region; 16 City; 23 supported program; 1062 homeless individual; 596 supported participants; 447 successfully completed individual support plan
Two indicators of programs at the end of the follow up period
Evaluation of programs 3rd of February survey • Independent annual survey since 1999 • Designed and coordinated by a working group • Target group: homeless people in contact with service providers (street work, shelters, temporary accommodations) • Location: 1999-2005 Budapest, 2006-2011 larger cities of Hungary also, 2012 smaller towns of Hungary also • Number of respondents 6,000-8,500 at each last 6 survey, 32,000 individual between 03.02.2006 and 03.02.2012. • The service providers can join to the data collection • The data collection is on the 3rd of February each year • The social workers are offering the questionnaire for the homeless people, and they also help to understand the questions or write down the answers • The questionnaire is anonym and voluntary
Evaluation of programs 3rd of February survey - Data structure • Constant questions every year, and annual focus themes each year – some of them repeatedly asked in a longer period • Each individual has an identical number generated each time at the same method from the monograms and birth date • The long term follow up of each individual respondent is possible including the place of the data collection (eg. on streets, in shelter etc.)
Evaluation of programs • The 3rd of February provides baseline data of each years on the structure and locality of the target group • Each individual in the supported ‚Back from the streets’ programs will be searched in the database, and all answered questions can be analysed as an individual history of homelessness • Also matching indicator data will be collected on ‚Back from the streets’ participants and compared to the baseline data
Evaluation of programs • Qualitative data collection • Regular meetings with service providers focusing on useful good practises and barriers when access to the private rental or social rental housing is sought for their homeless clients • On site interview both with social workers project leaders, and participants (part of the program-monitoring) • Detailed interview at two selected programs on the impact of the programs
Hajléktalanokért Közalapítvány Public Foundation For The Homeless Andrea Szabó szabo.andrea@hajlektalanokert.hu http://www.hajlekot.hu/ +36-20-989-38-61 Contact