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BUT A HOME IS BUT A HOME IS BUILT BY BUILT BY HEARTSHEARTS

A HOUSE IS BUILT A HOUSE IS BUILT BY HANDS, BY HANDS,

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Culturally Valued Analogue for Home

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Commonly used words for Commonly used words for “home” that suggest that it “home” that suggest that it

will not be onewill not be one Site Facility Home – Like Setting Program Service

Environment The House

Community “Locations”

Center Living Unit Dwelling Property

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Principle Issues to Principle Issues to Consider When Consider When

Endeavoring to Provide Endeavoring to Provide HomeHome

What is required if a service is to be a home?

How quality might be thought of in relation to home?

What factors within systems might compete with the nature of home?

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Accommodation / Accommodation / Residential Services Residential Services Endeavoring Endeavoring to Create Home.to Create Home.

Some Some Suggestions for Suggestions for ““Quality Quality Criteria” forCriteria” for

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Important Factors that Important Factors that Support Making a HomeSupport Making a Home

People decide where they will live.

They help to decorate and furnish their home.

They decide who they want to live with.

They have a voice in staff selection.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Important Factors that Important Factors that Support Making a HomeSupport Making a HomeAgencies hire staff whose personal orientation,

commitment and attributes are targeted towards supporting people make a home for themselves.

Programmes, treatment, and other related practices are kept out of the home setting, or if this is not possible, blended carefully into home life as to not disturb the home setting.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Important Factors that Important Factors that Support Making a HomeSupport Making a Home

Agencies do not bring their bureaucracy into the home. This means agency materials, meetings, offices or equipment.

Home is integrated into neighbourhoods. The dwelling is attractive, well cared for, and similar in appearance to neighbouring households.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Important Factors that Important Factors that Support Making a HomeSupport Making a Home

The home is close to family and friends, recreation and convenient to the interests of people who live there.

Intimacy, sharing, personal ownership and possessions is be encouraged.

The Agency stresses in its mission, and in its actions that the concept of home is a pre-eminent goal of the organisation.

Searchers are continuing to search for an intellectually disabled man missing in bush near Te Kuiti since yesterday. Lewis Munro, 51, and Alfred Jonakait, 53, also intellectually disabled, went missing during a group outing in the area yesterday. Concerns for the pair were raised about 5pm and Mr Jonakait was found about 9pm.The organisation had started an inquiry into how they had gone missing but the primary focus was on finding Mr Munro, who she was had an intellectual disability but was mobile.HE LIVED IN AN IHC HOME WITH OTHER INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED PEOPLE; HOME USUALLY COMPRISED FIVE PEOPLE PLUS A CARER but Ms Sellens was not sure of Mr Munro's circumstances.

Concern grows for missing intellectually disabled man4:13PM Tuesday October 30, 2007NZ Herald:

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What Are Some What Are Some Differences in a Differences in a Relationship When One Relationship When One Is Paid?Is Paid?

Paid relationships can not be the same or be as valued as unpaid relationships.

Deep caring is not something you can pay for. (service, however, is best done by people who have deep regard for the person being supported).

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

What Are Some What Are Some Differences in a Differences in a Relationship When One Relationship When One Is Paid?Is Paid?

Required to do things that are not always needed or necessary.

Not always allowed to give what is needed.

Paid people – even when the service is ‘good’ are:

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

What Are Some What Are Some Differences in a Differences in a Relationship When One Relationship When One Is Paid?Is Paid? The needs of the server sometimes clash with the

needs of the recipient.

Paid workers rarely last forever. Because staff inevitably go, many people become scarred by the procession of people through their lives.

One can only learn certain thingsthrough a freely given relationship.

The need for people to contribute, not just receive, can only be met in freely-given contexts.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

in Order to in Order to Protect and Protect and Advance a Sense Advance a Sense of of “Home”“Home”

OrganisatioOrganisational nal LeadershipLeadershipRequiremenRequirementsts

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Organisational LeadershipOrganisational LeadershipRequirements in Order to Requirements in Order to

Protect and Advance a Sense of Protect and Advance a Sense of “Home”“Home”

Comprehension of what a genuine home would be.

A sense of the risks to “home” which are present in the organisation.

A conscious resolve to accomplish “home” in peoples lives.

Sufficient conviction to persist with efforts to enable “home” to be realised.

The capacity to gain the support of others in the pursuit of “home”.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Organisational LeadershipOrganisational LeadershipRequirements in Order to Requirements in Order to

Protect and Advance a Sense of Protect and Advance a Sense of “Home”“Home” cont. cont.

Familiarity with options that enable home.

Submission to the needs and priorities of the people being served.

The ability to creatively solve “home” related problems.

Integrity in values and conduct.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

If we have an ideal of something we can:

Become clearer about how to bring the ideal about.

Discuss and share the ideal so more people understand it and pursue it.

Attract and reinforce people who also hold the ideal.

Why Holding an Ideal of Why Holding an Ideal of Home is Essential for its Home is Essential for its

Eventual RealisationEventual Realisation

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

What is Required to What is Required to Promote and Advance an Promote and Advance an

Ideal of Home?Ideal of Home?

Have clarity about the cultural ideal of home that you are seeking.

Continuously affirm and celebrate the ideal – even if it is a struggle to bring it about.

Recognise that to attain an ideal you have to defend it – often over other ideologies that will prevail.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Can Compete Can Compete with with a Focus on a Focus on Home.Home.

Features of Features of Residential Residential Services thatServices that

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Service Features that can Service Features that can Compete with Consumer Compete with Consumer

Interests.Interests.

Agency Interest In:

Owning properties.

Managing and controlling the way supports are provided.

Determining the number of people living in the house.

Determining who lives in the house.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Service Features that can Service Features that can Compete with Consumer Compete with Consumer

Interests.Interests. Control over

No influence or say so over who comes in and out of your home.

Rules and regulations imposed on the people who live in the house.

Bureaucratisation of home related functions.

Shift work models often lacking in permanency.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Agency Agency Factors Factors Contributing Contributing toto

Un-homelike Un-homelike ConditionsConditions

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Some Contributing Some Contributing Factors in Creating Un-Factors in Creating Un-

homelike Conditionshomelike Conditions1. Lack of overall vision or mission to provide Home as

a central agency goal.

2. Little interest in locating staff who are committed to the “goal” of home.

3. Preoccupation with subservience to system / funders requirements –at the expense of “home”.

4. Lack of belief that people deserve a real home.

5. Imposed discontinuities on people (e.g. constant shifting of clients, staff).

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Some Contributing Factors Some Contributing Factors in Creating Un-homelike in Creating Un-homelike

ConditionsConditions cont. cont.

6. Large or inappropriate groupings of people.

7. Lack of external advocates.

8. Non-use of ordinary homes.

9. Non involvement of the person in the selection and ownership of the home.

10. Imposed sharing of the household.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Some Contributing Factors Some Contributing Factors in Creating Un-homelike in Creating Un-homelike

ConditionsConditions cont. cont.

11. Use of practices in the home not usually thought of as being home like e.g. programmes – staff offices.

12. Violations of the sanctity / privacy of the home.

13. Home as an extension of agency / system (licensing, meetings, logs, documents).

14. Lack of intimacy and sharing.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Some Contributing Factors Some Contributing Factors in Creating Un-homelike in Creating Un-homelike

ConditionsConditions cont. cont.

16. Unhomelike décor.

17. Lack of signs or expressions of the people who lives there.

18. No commitment to permanency, continuity or stability.

19. Few options for sharing the home with non-clients.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

The Possibility of The Possibility of “Home” “Home” for Those Who are for Those Who are Devalued:Devalued:

Some of the Ways Some of the Ways in Which Social in Which Social Devaluation Devaluation Impacts onImpacts on

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Denial of the humanity of those needing homes.

Creation of stigmatising stereotypes that justify the poor treatment of persons.

Lowered expectations for what is possible in peoples lives.

Pressures to segregate and congregate people in “special” places.

A tolerance for “less than” standards as to what people deserve.

Adapted from Material by:MICHAEL KENDRICK, 4 BULLARD AVENUE, HOLYOKE, MA 01047, 1997

Institutional approaches and service models – even in small groupings.

De-individualisation of persons.

Low levels of consciousness or even indifference to what poor environments do to people.

Confusion of whose interests and needs are really being served.

Powerlessness of those being served up against those controlling their homes.