Karen R Fisher
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1448635 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Karen R Fisher |
| PRENOMES | Karen R |
| SOBRENOME | Fisher |
| ASSINATURA | FISHER K R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0828-6395 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 84 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 185 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Disability-inclusive iterative workshops as a co-design method
People with cognitive disability are subject to harm in their daily interactions, such as being ignored, humiliated and disrespected. Our study sought to explore this ‘everyday harm’ empirically. This article presents a case study of the use of disability-inclusive iterative workshops as a co-design method. The workshop method had two key outcomes. First, it confirmed that participants were very familiar with the concept (everyday harm) that the …
Everyday Harm Experienced by People With Disability From Culturally Diverse Backgrounds Using Community Services in High‐Income Countries
People with disability from culturally diverse backgrounds face challenges accessing community services. These negative experiences contribute to everyday harm, a common but less noticeable form of harm that negatively impacts a person's wellbeing and social connections. Despite its impact, the concept of everyday harm is underexplored for this community in service settings. A scoping review was conducted through a systematic search across four d…
Distributed Health Literacy Among People With Intellectual Disability, Their Supporters and Healthcare Professionals
BACKGROUND: Health literacy is associated with improved healthcare experiences and health outcomes and is influenced by the social context in which it occurs. People with intellectual disability face stark health inequalities, yet the health literacy concept is underexplored for this group. Little is known about how health literacy is co-constructed between people with intellectual disability, supporters and healthcare professionals. OBJECTIVE: T…
Mental Wellbeing from the Perspective of Older People from Culturally Diverse Backgrounds
Improving mental health support for older people from culturally diverse backgrounds needs evidence about their understanding of wellbeing and how their perspectives are reflected in practice. This study examined the consistency of older people’s sense of mental wellbeing with the COMPAS-Wellbeing Scale. Qualitative data were collected from a multicultural peer support group. During COVID-19 lockdown, older people from over 14 countries and cultu…
From rights to realities
Understanding everyday harm between young people with cognitive disability and support workers
This article develops a typology of everyday harm from empirical data to understand the many, often subtle, ways that people with cognitive disability experience harm in their relationships with paid support workers. The analysis draws on the concepts of recognition and misrecognition to highlight how interpersonal relationships and organisational environments (policies and culture) interrelate and influence harm occurring in everyday interaction…
Innovations in Integrated Care
Across Ontario hospitals, in patients is readmitted within one month of being discharged from hospital, with older patients being more likely to return than younger patients (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2022). One contributing factor is the lack of timely access to healthcare services. Bayshore HealthCare, Integrated Care Solutions (ICS) division, is supporting hospitals in Ontario to provide innovative bundled home care programs w…
Navigating parental involvement in self-managed personal assistance
Rethinking how people with cognitive disability complain
Supported Decision‐Making Rights in Behaviour Support Policies
Disability policy emphasises that people with disability have the right to exercise their will and preferences in their lives, and decision‐making support must be provided to realise this right if they request. One context in which people's will and preferences are often restricted is behaviour support. This article examines whether human rights, including rights to supported decision‐making, are reflected in current behaviour support policies—an…
People With Disability Influencing Sustained Improvements to Employment
This article considers the influence of people with cognitive disabilities on the sustainability of inclusive employment and the culture of workplaces and industry. We applied Gould et al. (2022) analytical framework about building and growing disability inclusion in business to research data collected about creating employment opportunities in aged care. The research found that people with cognitive disabilities in the workplaces and the guiding…
Chinese and Australian Neoliberal Policy Responses to Risks in Social Service Purchasing
China adopted neoliberal approaches to improve the supply of quality social services in the early 2000s. How did the Chinese government manage the financial and quality risks of increasing the provision via government purchasing and how did it differ from other countries? The article examines the policy trajectory of early childhood education and care in China and Australia on this question. Policy analysis of the effect of purchasing on the cost…
Hub and Spokes in Intellectual Disability Mental Health Support
The distribution of specialist health services is usually uneven by location due to limited resources, which is a problem for people with complex needs. In this context, how can a hub and spoke model offer appropriate services for people with intellectual disability and mental health needs? The data were individual and group interviews with people using and delivering the services in Australia. Data were analysed against a hub‐and‐spoke analytica…
Disability Policy Meets Cultural Values
Supporting families of people with developmental disabilities from culturally diverse backgrounds is receiving increased attention in the era of globalisation. However, there is little information about how disability policy and cultural values work together to support families. This article examined how disability policy and Chinese cultural values influence family care of children and young people with developmental disabilities. By comparing q…
Five Factors for Effective Policy to Improve Attitudes towards People with Disability
Improving community attitudes and behaviours is core to improving inclusion for people with disability. To identify ways to achieve such change, we analysed data from qualitative interviews with sixty-one expert stakeholders in Australia, informed by our preceding literature review on effective interventions. We identified five themes describing factors with the potential to change attitudes and behaviours to improve inclusion and reduce discrimi…
Social Participation of People with Chronic Mental Health Needs
Social participation is positively related to mental health recovery and wellbeing, yet people with mental health problems are often socially isolated. This article investigates how social participation was incorporated into an Australian‐integrated program that aimed to improve the wellbeing of people with chronic mental health needs. The data are from a longitudinal evaluation of the integrated program, including data linkage (5533 participants…
Policy representation of everyday harm experienced by people with disability
People with disability are at heightened risk of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation (VANE) with policy geared towards responding to and eliminating VANE harm. Yet not all harm experienced by people with disability is captured within the VANE harm. Many people also experience harm in everyday interactions that leave them feeling uncomfortable, devalued, disrespected, threatened or silenced. Our multi‐method study begins with the term ‘every…
Coproduction with peer support groups
The disparity of access to suitable social services for people from culturally diverse backgrounds is receiving increased attention. Coproduction between service users and providers has the potential as an approach to improve the cultural responsiveness of social services. What remains unknown is how social service organizations can facilitate and support coproduction with people from culturally diverse backgrounds. This article examines how thre…
Barriers to High-quality Therapy Services for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Social workers with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) should assist them to have timely access to high-quality therapy services. This research addresses the gap between policy intention to improve the quality of therapy services and families’ unmet needs by examining the policy implementation practices of therapy service organisations. A longitudinal study was conducted in Beijing from 2013 to 2022. Qualitative data were obtained from …
Digitally Networked Social Services
Within growing marketisation of publicly funded services, the internet has provided new opportunities for marketing, delivery, and coordination of those services. Using web scraping and hyperlink network analysis techniques, this paper examines the ways in which organisations operating in Australia's evolving National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) system inter-connect online. Social media plays the most important role in the online network. …
Research Handbook on Disability Policy
Examining how policy affects the human rights of people with disabilities, this topical Handbook presents diverse empirical experiences of disability policy and identifies the changes that are necessary to achieve social justice.
Shifting power to people with disability in co-designed research
This paper explores tensions navigated by researchers and project leaders when involving people with disability as experts in co-design and in the core team. Part of an evaluation aiming to improve paid employment of people with intellectual disability is used to consider this work. Assemblage analysis of the data assisted in identifying a range of material and social conditions, flows, and factors that de-and re-territorialise power in the co-de…
Factors that help people with disability to self-manage their support
Disability policy in many countries encourages people to self-manage their disability support funds, yet few people do. This is also the case with Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Little is known about who chooses self-management and how they sustain it. This project explored the conditions and resources conducive to self-management in the interests of the person with disability. It used Katzman and Kinsella’s typology of …
Using the 'in-between' to build quality in support relationships with people with cognitive disability
In a policy context of personalisation, disability support organisations recognise the increasingly contentious nature of clustering people according to disability. Instead, they are placing more emphasis on activities that promote community inclusion. Accordingly, the work between people with cognitive disability and their support workers is increasingly mobile. In this context, drawing on research using a conceptual framework based in recogniti…
Love’s Uncertainty
Analysing Choice in Australian Individual Funding Disability Policies
The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will allocate funding packages to people with disability who are assessed as needing paid support. The NDIS is an example of individual funding, which is currently not the dominant way of organising disability support in Australia. Individual funding aims to increase opportunities for personal choice. We present a framework for understanding current individual funding policies in each Aus…
Chinese disability independent living policy
Despite strong statements on disability rights in Chinese legislation since 1990, independent living policy as experienced by disabled people falls short of the social inclusion goals expected from such a policy commitment. Analysis of empirical research about disabled people's experiences shows that responsibility for independent living rests primarily with disabled people and their families. Only when they have no family does the government pro…
Evaluation of the NDIS final report
Australia's Individualised Disability Funding Packages
Australia's new National Disability Insurance Scheme ( NDIS ) uses individualised funding packages instead of traditional block‐funded disability services to support people with disability. The NDIS works with the person and their family to assess the person's needs and develop a plan that determines their funding allocation. Funding can be used to purchase support from a disability service or from the open market. People can purchase support tha…
Disability and support relationships
Very little is known about how relationships between people with disabilities and their paid support workers are positioned in policy. With the policy shift toward choice of provider, individualised approaches, person centredness and self‐directed funding, the nature of their relationship assumes a more prominent role in the quality of support practice. The policy analysis in this article explores the extent to which current disability policy ack…
Informal Kinship Care of Orphans in Rural China
This study examines kinship care of orphans throughout China. It finds that in addition to children becoming orphaned if both parents die, some children are treated as orphans when their father dies and rural traditional kinship care obligations restrict the viability of widowed mothers continuing to care for their child. When mothers are forced for socioeconomic reasons to leave the paternal extended family, children effectively become orphans, …
Discrimination against children with disability in China
Shang X, Fisher KR, Xie J. Discrimination against children with disability in China Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 298–308 © 2009 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. Families' experiences in connection with having a child with disability have been little researched in China. This study applies a child‐based human rights framework to analyse families' …
Understanding paid support relationships
The quality of paid relationships is key for effective support, yet little is known about how people receiving and providing support understand and experience the relationship. This paper reports on recent research that explored the role of relationships with paid support workers in strengthening the rights and wellbeing of young people with cognitive disability in Australia. The research used photo-rich participatory methods with 42 pairs of you…
Shifting power to people with disability in co-designed research
This paper explores tensions navigated by researchers and project leaders when involving people with disability as experts in co-design and in the core team. Part of an evaluation aiming to improve paid employment of people with intellectual disability is used to consider this work. Assemblage analysis of the data assisted in identifying a range of material and social conditions, flows, and factors that de-and re-territorialise power in the co-de…
Policies to change attitudes to people with disabilities
Negative attitudes are a major barrier to the equality of people with disabilities. Governments and other organizations have implemented numerous programmes to change attitudes towards people with disabilities. We analyse published evidence about the effectiveness of such programmes using a framework of the interrelationship among three levels of policy intervention to change attitudes: personal level – directed at changing the attitudes of indiv…
Participatory and Inclusive Approaches to Disability Program Evaluation
Some evaluations of disability programs now apply participatory methods to include people with cognitive disability in the collection of data. However, more inclusive approaches that engage people with cognitive disability more fully in the decisions about the evaluation remain rare. We examined why this may be the case, using Weaver and Cousin's criteria for inclusive evaluation to measure the depth of inclusion of our methods in an evaluation t…
Barriers to finding and maintaining open employment for people with intellectual disability in Australia
Everyone has the right to employment. Work is important for health, well‐being, and social, economic, and financial inclusion. However, it is often difficult for people with intellectual disability to find and maintain work, especially in the open labour market. Policy challenges remain about who can access open employment (also sometimes called competitive or supported employment) and how often people with intellectual disability do so. Greater …
Follower or Challenger? How Chinese Non-governmental Organizations Manage Accountability Requirements from Funders
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) sometimes disagree with their funders’ accountability requirements; however, their dependence on the funders’ resources makes it difficult to express their disagreement. This dilemma for NGOs may keep funders from substantively holding NGOs to account and cause mission drift for the NGOs. This paper analyzes an in-depth case study of an understudied scenario: how a newly founded NGO engages with multiple fund…
Is Housing First for M ental H ealth C ommunity Support Possible During a Housing Shortage
Supported housing programmes for people with chronic mental health needs have shifted towards approaches that rely on housing first, which prioritizes access to a permanent home in the community. How do support programmes with this assumption manage the market constraints of a shortage of affordable housing? The article examines empirical mixed method data (interviews and programme data) about the experience of managing this problem in the M enta…
International Power and Local Action – Implications for the Intersectionality of the Rights of Women with Disability
The recent United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) reframes how policy responds to disability, difference, interdependence and rights. We examine how Australian disability activists used the CRPD to advocate for the intersectional rights of women with disability. We applied a framework from Zwingel's conceptualisation of mutually constituting global norms to analyse the intersectionality of rights represented i…
Care without coercion – mental health rights, personal recovery and trauma‐informed care
Australian mental health services continue to use involuntary measures in response to consumers' mental distress. Regardless of the intent behind these practices, the experience of being forced to receive treatment, be secluded or restrained is traumatic and can cause further distress and harm. Other parts of the health or social service system have shifted to approaches that emphasise agency, social context, prevention, and rights. Three framewo…
Measuring the Effectiveness of New Approaches to Housing Support Policy for Persons with Disabilities
Housing support policy for persons with disabilities who require access to 24‐hour formal or informal support is changing throughout Australia. This is consistent with international trends including: independent living in generic housing; facilitating choices about where and with whom people live; individualised home‐based support; and community integration. Are these trends leading to policies that are effective in the Australian context? This a…
Challenging the exclusion of people with mental illness
Without appropriate support, people with mental illness can be excluded from stable housing and social and community participation. Transitional models of support for people with acute mental illness have addressed clinical symptoms and hospitalisation, but they have not facilitated stable housing and community integration. In contrast, individualised housing models aim to improve mental health, housing and community outcomes. These programs are …
Factors that help people with disability to self-manage their support
Disability policy in many countries encourages people to self-manage their disability support funds, yet few people do. This is also the case with Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Little is known about who chooses self-management and how they sustain it. This project explored the conditions and resources conducive to self-management in the interests of the person with disability. It used Katzman and Kinsella’s typology of …
Breaking Up Is Risky Business
The marketisation of disability support driven by individualised funding brings new dilemmas for multi-agency collaboration, in particular how to provide personalised supports while remaining commercially viable. This article explores the challenges, risks and adaptations of organisations to navigate the tensions of personalisation and collaboration. Framed by street-level research and using the context of Australia’s National Disability Insuranc…
Recasting ‘harm’ in support
Policy efforts addressing abuse of people with disability tend to focus on more extreme forms of violence, sometimes at the expense of attending to everyday indignities and insults experienced when receiving support. Recognition theory provides a lens for identifying actions and attitudes of misrecognition that can cause hurt, humiliation or degradation, and have a negative effect on identity formation. Honneth’s concept of misrecognition is used…
Claiming space
Negative attitudes about and behaviours towards women with disability are harmful and give shape to an identity that is imposed by others. Our research sought to challenge these attitudes and behaviours through self-portraits, narratives and photovoice methodology. Six women with disability participated in our feminist photovoice project on identity, producing data that we interrogated through thematic analysis. Our findings indicate that remarks…
How can coproduction help to deliver culturally responsive disability support? A case study from Australia
How to improve access and quality of social services to respond to cultural diversity is receiving increased attention. Yet no approach to cultural responsiveness has been widely accepted. Coproduction has been championed in many service fields for better service outcomes and has the potential to inform practices for cultural responsiveness. This study explored how coproduction can be used to deliver culturally responsive social services. We cond…
Transition Experience of Families with Young Children in the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)
The transition of the early childhood intervention (ECI) sector to the Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) offers new choices to families about which services best meet their children’s needs. The quality of the transition to the Scheme has important implications for children with developmental delay or disability and their families, especially as personalisation schemes, such as the NDIS, can often extend existing social inequ…
Disability, technology innovation and social development in China and Australia
This paper examines the turn to technology innovation in disability policy, as it has manifested in the accessibility and digital inclusion agendas in China and Australia. It provides a review of the disability policy changes and related initiatives in both countries to offer insights for broader discussions of digital technology innovation and social policy in Asia. We argue that while governments take pivotal roles in formulating and implementi…
Balancing Qualified Staff Requirements with Shortage of Recruits in Child Care – The NSW Experience
In Australia and many other countries, government regulations require that children's services, such as long day care centres and preschools, employ certain numbers of qualified early childhood teachers. This recognises that training and experience of staff are the most significant factors determining the quality of care. At the same time Australia is facing a shortage of qualified early childhood teachers, and governments are grappling with how …
Chinese disability independent living policy
Despite strong statements on disability rights in Chinese legislation since 1990, independent living policy as experienced by disabled people falls short of the social inclusion goals expected from such a policy commitment. Analysis of empirical research about disabled people's experiences shows that responsibility for independent living rests primarily with disabled people and their families. Only when they have no family does the government pro…
Challenging the exclusion of people with mental illness
Without appropriate support, people with mental illness can be excluded from stable housing and social and community participation. Transitional models of support for people with acute mental illness have addressed clinical symptoms and hospitalisation, but they have not facilitated stable housing and community integration. In contrast, individualised housing models aim to improve mental health, housing and community outcomes. These programs are …
Discrimination against children with disability in China
Shang X, Fisher KR, Xie J. Discrimination against children with disability in China Int J Soc Welfare 2011: 20: 298–308 © 2009 The Author(s), International Journal of Social Welfare © 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the International Journal of Social Welfare. Families' experiences in connection with having a child with disability have been little researched in China. This study applies a child‐based human rights framework to analyse families' …
Measuring the Effectiveness of New Approaches to Housing Support Policy for Persons with Disabilities
Housing support policy for persons with disabilities who require access to 24‐hour formal or informal support is changing throughout Australia. This is consistent with international trends including: independent living in generic housing; facilitating choices about where and with whom people live; individualised home‐based support; and community integration. Are these trends leading to policies that are effective in the Australian context? This a…
Introduction
China is at a turning point in the reform of its social welfare system due to new opportunities and pressures. First, China is in transition to a middle developed country. Fast economic growth has created more wealth for the government and society that could be invested in the social welfare of its citizens. Second, social problems and conflicts have accumulated, partly as a result of past social policies, which were residual only, as was common …
Will Policy Makers Hear My Disability Experience? How Participatory Research Contributes to Managing Interest Conflict in Policy Implementation
Participatory evaluation gives primacy to the experience of people affected by the policy. How realistic is it for researchers to persuade government of its benefits, given the gap between participatory policy theory and government evaluation practice? We apply this question to the Resident Support Program evaluation. The program coordinates support for people living in boarding houses and hostels in Queensland, Australia. We found that a partici…
Informal Kinship Care of Orphans in Rural China
This study examines kinship care of orphans throughout China. It finds that in addition to children becoming orphaned if both parents die, some children are treated as orphans when their father dies and rural traditional kinship care obligations restrict the viability of widowed mothers continuing to care for their child. When mothers are forced for socioeconomic reasons to leave the paternal extended family, children effectively become orphans, …
Effective personalised housing support for people with disabilities – case study analysis
International policy trends favour personalised approaches to housing support for people with disabilities. Previous research is inconclusive about whether these approaches are effective compared to group home support in the way they use government resources and benefit clients, partly because it does not usually consider the experiences of people who use the support. In this research we compared six new, innovative case studies of personalised h…
I didn't like just sittin' around all day
People with mental illness can be profoundly disabled and at risk of social exclusion. Transitional models of supported housing have limited effectiveness in improving community participation. Stable, individualised psychosocial housing support programmes have been found to assist in improving mental health and decreasing hospitalisations, but little is understood about whether or how these programmes facilitate social and community participation…
Absent Role of the State
China is experiencing rapid population ageing and already has 44 million older people with disabilities aged over 59 years. Yet social support of these older people with disabilities is undeveloped and not well researched. This article contributes by using a disability rights framework (right to life and protection, economic security and social support) to analyze local cases in rural China. It finds that, although the family is still the main pr…
Barriers to the Supply of Non-Government Disability Services in China
In the last five years, the Chinese government has begun to encourage the development of non-government organisations (NGO) to increase the supply of social support. Although changes in the NGO sector in China are well researched, questions remain about the barriers to increasing the supply of social services from registered NGOs. We use Mattei's managerial and democratic accountability framework to examine empirical data about the relationship b…
Caring for Orphaned Children in China
International media regularly features horrific stories about Chinese orphanages, especially when debating international adoption and human rights. Much of the popular information is dated and ill-informed about the experiences of most orphans in China today, Chinese government policy, and improvements evident in parts of China. Informal kinship care is the most common support for the orphaned children. The state supports orphans and abandoned ch…
International Power and Local Action – Implications for the Intersectionality of the Rights of Women with Disability
The recent United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) reframes how policy responds to disability, difference, interdependence and rights. We examine how Australian disability activists used the CRPD to advocate for the intersectional rights of women with disability. We applied a framework from Zwingel's conceptualisation of mutually constituting global norms to analyse the intersectionality of rights represented i…
Analysing Choice in Australian Individual Funding Disability Policies
The Australian National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) will allocate funding packages to people with disability who are assessed as needing paid support. The NDIS is an example of individual funding, which is currently not the dominant way of organising disability support in Australia. Individual funding aims to increase opportunities for personal choice. We present a framework for understanding current individual funding policies in each Aus…
Participatory and Inclusive Approaches to Disability Program Evaluation
Some evaluations of disability programs now apply participatory methods to include people with cognitive disability in the collection of data. However, more inclusive approaches that engage people with cognitive disability more fully in the decisions about the evaluation remain rare. We examined why this may be the case, using Weaver and Cousin's criteria for inclusive evaluation to measure the depth of inclusion of our methods in an evaluation t…
Care without coercion – mental health rights, personal recovery and trauma‐informed care
Australian mental health services continue to use involuntary measures in response to consumers' mental distress. Regardless of the intent behind these practices, the experience of being forced to receive treatment, be secluded or restrained is traumatic and can cause further distress and harm. Other parts of the health or social service system have shifted to approaches that emphasise agency, social context, prevention, and rights. Three framewo…
Social Support for Mothers of Children With Disabilities in China
This article analyzes the gendered parenting experiences of mothers of children with disabilities in China. These mothers struggle to meet their children's needs, including daily care, financial security, and child development. In the context of China's social welfare development, are social services responding to their needs, so that mothers can share responsibility for the needs of their children with disabilities? The research analyzed qualita…
Introduction
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMegan BlaxlandMegan Blaxland is a Research Associate at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Xiaoyuan ShangXiaoyuan Shang is an Associate Professor at the Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.Karen R. FisherKaren R. Fisher is an Associate Professor at the Social Policy Research Cent…
Protecting the Right to Life of Children with Disabilities in China
Chinese social policy to support parents in caring for their children is vital to address the urgent social problem of abandoning the life of children with disabilities by not seeking medical treatment. The child rights approach was used to analyze the effectiveness of Chinese social policy to protect the right to life of these children. Primary and secondary empirical data from 3 case studies where parents decided whether to abandon their child …
Australia's Individualised Disability Funding Packages
Australia's new National Disability Insurance Scheme ( NDIS ) uses individualised funding packages instead of traditional block‐funded disability services to support people with disability. The NDIS works with the person and their family to assess the person's needs and develop a plan that determines their funding allocation. Funding can be used to purchase support from a disability service or from the open market. People can purchase support tha…
Accountability of Children's Services Organizations in China
The accountability of children's services organizations is a current challenge in China as its social service system expands. The government is beginning to fund children's services organizations directly; however, the accountability practices remain weak. This has created a credibility crisis with the public about the use of donations and quality of services. Some organizations are starting to engage with their service users to address this prob…
Transitional and Developmental Challenges for Chinese Social Policy
This special issue explores the social policy challenges faced by China as it navigates a period of rapid social and economic change. While China has benefited from significant growth and new wealth in recent years, there are many sections of Chinese society that continue to live in poverty. The authors in this special issue provide thoughtful and creative responses to difficult policy questions with the aim of reducing poverty and expanding and …
Is Housing First for M ental H ealth C ommunity Support Possible During a Housing Shortage
Supported housing programmes for people with chronic mental health needs have shifted towards approaches that rely on housing first, which prioritizes access to a permanent home in the community. How do support programmes with this assumption manage the market constraints of a shortage of affordable housing? The article examines empirical mixed method data (interviews and programme data) about the experience of managing this problem in the M enta…
Can Case Management Contribute to Effective Use of Small Self‐Directed Support Packages for People with Disabilities
While self‐directed support for people with disabilities and their families represents a welcome shift toward self‐determination and increasing control, the risk of managing with insufficient funds remains. This article examines whether different types of case management can mitigate that risk by providing support when people have only a small direct funding package. It applies the question to an evaluated program of self‐directed support in Quee…
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