Fast Track - A protocol for a seamless service journey: Developing an engagement model to enable person-centred practice in community services

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Abstract

How services respond to a person in crisis for the first time forms the basis of the relationship between the person and the organisation and can influence the person’s future, including how they may respond to crises in the future.This project aimed to develop, using a co-production partnership approach, a workplace-relevant client engagement model for UCSA people to use in their practice, so that they may provide the best possible service to clients at the outset (Buick,Blackman,O’Flynn,O’Donnell,&West,2015). The language of ‘intake and assessment’ and ‘triage’ is contested and UCSA people are taking steps to move away from these towards ‘engagement’. In early 2018, UCSA recruited client engagement workers. Consequently, in keeping with the UCSA person-centred philosophy and strengths-based practice, and after workshop discussions, it seemed engagement would be a more useful and relevant term. In this report, the term ‘engagement’ encapsulates other terms such as ‘intake and assessment’ and ‘triage’ and where possible is used to replace those terms.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationBedford Park, South Australia
PublisherFlinders University
Commissioning bodyUniting Country SA
Number of pages46
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2018

Publication series

NameACSSR Report
PublisherAustralian Centre for Community Services Research
No.03-1/2018

Keywords

  • Crisis response strategies
  • Crisis management
  • person-centred practice
  • community services
  • Uniting Country SA
  • assessment models
  • triage

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