Hope-help service

Home assistance consists of a group of resources that aim to facilitate the social integration of people with a need for specific support to aid their recovery.

Objectives

Facilitate maintaining individuals within the community.
Provide a network of social support in different types of alternative accommodation.
Prevent or reduce the risk of psycho-social decline and marginalisation.
Reduce stress and vulnerability attributable to the family context.
Promote interaction with others.
Improve living conditions across all health areas.
Encourage making use of the opportunities afforded by the welfare state.

Who it is aimed at

General criteria:

Those who require residential support as a result of having little or no social contact as a consequence of suffering a serious and chronic mental illness, whilst maintaining relative personal independence.
Those who lack other residential provisions of a general nature.
Users of public services provided by the network of psychiatric care of the Regional Government of the Canary Islands.
Those suffering a stressful family environment.
Those with little or no adherence to mental health services and/or those living within an extreme social situation.
Those who accept the living conditions for the proposed resource.
Specific criteria:
Those who adapt to the level of specific support for the corresponding resource in each case.
Those who accept the established economic conditions which must be formalised in an individual contract with the body or association charged with managing the resource.
Those who suffer an officially recognised disability.
Those who are willing to participate in activities outside of the home and/or in the psychosocial rehabilitation resources.
Support and monitoring by the Assertive Community Unit (ECA).

Types of accommodation

Guest houses: For those who do not wish to or cannot live with other people and are able to live independently within the community, under supervision.
Sheltered accommodation: For people who are able to live with other people and who are accepted by other members of the accommodation, with sufficient skills to live independently. Supervision required.
Mini residences: For people who can live with other people but who are more dependent, requiring continual supervision to cover healthcare needs.
Own home: For people living in their own homes who have low levels of dependence on psychiatric service facilities or who live in extreme social situations or situations with no or a very scant social-family network.