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Title

From psychiatric hospital to supported housing: the Neami Community Housing Program, Melbourne, Australia, 1995-2008

Author(s)

Carter, Meg

Abstract

In 1995, a small non-government organisation called Neami was funded to provide housing and support for 30 former long-stay patients from a local psychiatric institution in Melbourne. Aged between early 20s and early 50s and diagnosed with schizophrenia or related conditions, the patients had been assessed by clinical staff as being unable to cope in the community without intensive support. As the institution in which they had been inpatients was closing, new forms of supported housing had to be found. Thirteen years later, many of the people discharged in 1995 remain in the housing provided through this program... [Introduction]

Publication type

Policy paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences. Institute for Social Research

Publication year

2008

Keyword(s)

Housing;  Mentally ill;  Victoria;  Melbourne;  Mental health services

Publisher

Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology

Publisher URL

http://www.sisr.net/Flagships/sustainable/completedprojects.html

Research Projects

Out of the institution: an investigation of deinstitutionalization, exploring the effectiveness of supported housing for people with psychiatric disabilities leaving care, Australian Research Council grant number LP0562545

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