This document outlines a strategy plan from 2006-2009 to address homelessness in four major Dutch cities including Rotterdam. The plan aims to provide homeless individuals with incomes, stable housing, care programs, and work opportunities. It establishes targets to house the approximately 10,000 homeless individuals by 2010 and prevent future homelessness through coordinated social services and investments in housing. The document describes methods, target groups, instruments, and next steps to implement Rotterdam's portion of the plan.

1. Strategy plan for social relief 2006 – 2009
Amsterdam – Rotterdam – The Hague - Utrecht
Christl van Gerven
Social Affairs and Employment
City of Rotterdam
May 2006

2. Outline
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A short history
.
Targets (2006-2009)
.
Target groups for social relief (2006)
.
Methods
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Instruments
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Translation to Rotterdam
.
Next moves
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Role of social care providers
The European context
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3. A short history (1)
June, 2005
- Discussion between Minster of Finance and
Director Dutch Salvation Army on
homelessness issues
- Lobby by the four major cities for a specific
long stay facility
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4. A short history (2)
September 5, 2005
- Conference with cabinet delegation, municipal
executives from the four major cities and
administrators of social services on the “social
relief bottleneck”
- An improved operational approach to the
problems of the homeless is required; they
remain too long in shelter. A policy is needed to
promote through flow
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5. A short history (3)
February 7, 2006
- Presentation of the collective strategy plan for
social relief
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6. Targets (2006-2009) (1)
I. The present 10,000-plus homeless persons will be
provided
- with incomes,
- with structural forms of living accommodation
suited to the individuals concerned,
- with non-optional evidence-based care
programmes, and,
- as far as possible, with feasible forms of work
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7. Targets (2006-2009) (2)
II. Homelessness as a result of eviction / detention /
as a result of leaving care institutions, is almost
non-existent. To the extent that these forms of
homelessness still take place, alternative and
suitable living accommodation at the bottom end
of the housing market is to be offered.
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8. Target Groups for Social Relief (2006) (1)
Homeless persons
Actual homeless
Addicts 1.500 1.035 700 350 3.585
Mentally disturbed 1.000 530 400 250 2.180
Addicted and mentally disturbed 400 300 250 150 1.100
Other 100 435 150 100 785
Total 3.000 2.300 1.500 850 7.650
Residential homeless
Addicts 450 200 200 150 1.000
Mentally disturbed 450 250 200 150 1.050
Addicted and mentally disturbed 100 150 100 100
Other 450
Total 1.000 600 500 400 2.500
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9. Targets Groups for Social Relief (2006) (2)
+15.000 in acc+
+15.000 in traject
10.000 in acc.+
10.000 in traject
R’dam G4
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
2.900 10.000
4.500 15.000
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10. Methods (1)
- Integral chain of care and accommodations
- Central clearing centers
- Individualized client management (and treatment,
if necessary)
- The cities are the directors of the (local) strategy plans
- Robust strategic alliances
- Structural investments and differentiation in long-
term living accommodations
- Promoting through flow (no longer “living in the
shelters”)
- 13 instruments / tools to be facilitate the process
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11. Methods (2)
inflow throughflow outflow
2010 -2013:
Unstop
MO
(structural) 1
2
From 2006:
2006-2008:
3 Investment
Investment
I (structural)
(temporary)
opvang
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12. Instruments (1)
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Instrument 1:
Instrument 2:
model intake form
model procedure for the individualized
.
approach
Instrument 3: model agreement on data exchange in
.
reference to privacy legislation
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Instrument 4: model individual programme plan
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Instrument 5: BOPZ (Mental Health Act) guidelines
Instrument 6: model procedure for effecting care
.
supply
Instrument 7: model approach to uninsuredness and
budget management
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13. Instruments (2)
. Instrument 8: model approach to effecting supply of
.
living accommodation
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Instrument 9: model protocols for prevention of evictions
.
Instrument 10: wage projects scheme
Instrument 11: model approach to debt
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assistance and debt repayment
Instrument 12: model procedure for co-ordinating
aftercare in cases of release from
detention
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14. Translation to Rotterdam (1)
10.000 homeless national  2.900 homeless local
(+ 4.500 of risk groups)
Targets per 2010:
2.900 people have a personal plan (and a client manager)
1.740 (60%) of them have sustainable accommodation
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15. Translation to Rotterdam (2)
€ 175 mln extra for Rotterdam
63% AWBZ (National Act on Exceptional
Medical Expenses)
2% Heroin-experiment
35% Municipality (Big City Policy funds and
re-distribution of OGGZ, Dutch public
mental health care funds)
Maintaining the current subsidies (€ 48 mln a year in
Rotterdam)
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16. Next moves
July 2006: more money for the cities (transferred from
special health care)
October 2006: the Rotterdam strategy plan is ready
- long-range agreements with care insurers
- agreements on accommodation capacity with housing
corporations
- public bids for specific care
arrangements/accommodations
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17. Role of social care providers
. National Strategy Plan also based on input of the
Dutch Federation of homeless organisations
.
(Federatie Opvang)
Now, input is asked of the Rotterdam social care
providers (both mental health care and homeless
.
organisations)
The plan will also be carried through to the other
cities (and their care providers) by the VNG
(association of Dutch municipalities)
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18. The European context
. Learning from other countries, other cities, other
social care providers
. Both on a method as well as on a process level
. Examples: COOP, Eurocities Working Group on
Homeless
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