Places of Sanctuary for 'the Undeserving'? Homeless People's Day Centres and the Problem of Conditionality
Places of Sanctuary for 'the Undeserving'? Homeless People's Day Centres and the Problem of Conditionality
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DOI：
10.1093/bjsw/bcs196
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
影响因子：
1.8
通讯作者：
Weinstein, Mark
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作者：
Bowpitt, Graham;Dwyer, Peter;Weinstein, Mark
本文是一个两难的探索，是中央的地方日间中心在处理单身无家可归者，并提出了社会工作更普遍的问题。一方面，日托中心在安全、无威胁和无偏见的环境中向弱势群体提供重要服务;另一方面，据信，日托中心这样做会阻碍个人改变的机会。本文借鉴了一项研究的结果，比较和对比的优先事项，单一的无家可归者与多种支持需求的支持服务的优先事项，探索服务用户和机构之间的相遇，无论是克服或加强多重排斥无家可归的作用。本文重点介绍有关使用日托中心的证据。它试图借鉴神学的见解，探索日间中心作为“避难所”，其基本上无条件的访问，使他们能够作为一个最后的避难所，为受害者的多重拒绝和一个安全的地方面对过去。本文将采取辩论的条件提供福利领域以外的无家可归者，以解决社会工作的最古老的困境之一：如何促进变化，同时尊重人们的自由代理。
This paper is an exploration of a dilemma that is central to the place of day centres in tackling single homelessness and raises issues for social work more generally. On the one hand, day centres provide vital services to a vulnerable group in a safe, non-threatening and non-judgemental setting; on the other hand, in doing so, they are believed to impede opportunities for personal change. The paper draws on findings from a research study which compared and contrasted the priorities of single homeless people with multiple support needs with the priorities of support services, exploring the role of encounters between service users and agencies in either overcoming or reinforcing multiple exclusion homelessness. This paper focuses on evidence about the use of day centres. It seeks to draw on theological insights to explore day centres as 'places of sanctuary' whose largely unconditional accessibility enables them to serve as both a last refuge for the victims of multiple rejection and a safe place to confront the past. This paper will take the debate about conditionality in welfare provision beyond the field of homelessness to address one of the oldest dilemmas of social work: how to facilitate change while respecting people's free agency.