STREET SUPPORT PROJECT Roberto Perez Gayo Correlation - European Harm Reduction Network
STREET SUPPORT PROJECT DRUG & ALCOHOL RELATED NUISANCE IS AN IMPORTANT POLICY ISSUE IN CITIES. INTERVENTIONS ARE LIMITED AND MAINLY BASED ON REPRESSIVE AND SACTIONARY ACTS CONSEQUENCE: PUBLIC SPACES ARE LOSING ITS PUBLIC FUNCTION. MARGINALIZED GROUPS ARE BEING BANNED FROM PUBLIC SPACE. FURTHER EXCLUSION & IMPACT ON THEIR WELL-BEING GOAL: TO OFFER SERVICE PROVIDERS, ORGANIZATIONS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WITH TOOLS AND MODELS OF GOOD PRACTICE, RESULTING ON EFFECTIVE AND INCLUSIVE INTERVENTIONS FOR PEOPLE EXPERIENCING HOMELESSNESS AND/OR DRUGS/ALCOHOL USERS
EXCLUSIONARY SPACE MAKING PRACTICES GENTRIFICATION SECURITIZATION SANITIZATION Blurriying public - private space. “Anti - social behaviour” agenda. ‘Disneyfication’ of urban space Regulation & control based on the Rhetorics of ‘disorder’ & ‘illegality’ Rhetorics of ‘disease projected on rights of private ownership marginalized communities’ BODIES THAT AROUSE FEELINGS OF FEAR, DISGUST, RAGE, GUILT, OR EVEN DISCOMFORT, ARE CONTROLLED, MADE DISPOSABLE AND TARGETED FOR REMOVAL OF PUBLIC SPACE
A TYPOLOGY OF INTERVENTIONS FORCE COERCION BARGAIN INFLUENCE TOLERANCE Removes possibility Secures behaviour Incentivizes Promotes behaviour No active/deliberate of non-compliance change via the threat behaviour change via change via attempt made to of ‘deprivations’ the use/promise of persuasion (use of promote behaviour an exchange of gains speech or other change or losses symbols) or ‘nudge’ (modification of ‘framing’ of a decision) to shape beliefs and behaviours
WHAT TYPE OF SOCIAL INCLUSION? [I] PROBLEMATIZING SOME APPROACHES TO INCLUSION: FOCUS ON TOO FOCUSED ON TOP-DOWN NORMATIVE HOMOGENIZING PAID EMPLOYMENT ACCESS Labour market Only concern is Assumes socially Assumes one Double binary logic conflated with social getting people ‘over excluded population mainstream society exclusion the line’ as passive, or no to aspire to Constraints complex agency realities. Redenders Avoids broader Lack logic for ‘doing Inclusion = some groups discussions on more’ acceptance of ‘invisible’ labour rights dominant values and norms Single-factor lenses interventions
WHAT TYPE OF SOCIAL INCLUSION? [II] TOWARDS A ‘MORE INCLUSIVE’ MODEL OF INCLUSION: PARTICIPATORY OPEN ENDED CONTEXTUAL INTERSECTIONAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL INCLUSION INCLUSION INCLUSION INCLUSION INCLUSION Representation is not Moving from Local responses Takes into Inclusive practices in enough. The need to understanding [not] consideration all the all spaces and levels, bring marginalized being included as a Analyze and complexity of our from the micro to the communities into the result towards deconstruct specific identities. macro. centre of social life “relationships of exclusionary inclusion and practices, histories, Acknowledges that exclusion”. institutions & social marginalized structures communities are Inclusion as an excluded by multiple ongoing, never sources, mechanisms ending process. and systems. Degrees of inclusion.
RECOMMENDATIONS 1. ENSURE THAT SUPPORT SERVICES FOLLOW HARM-REDUCTION APPROACHES. 2. SUPPORT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE & ACCESSIBLE AS LONG HOURS AS POSSIBLE. EFFECTIVE DISCHARGE PROTOCOLS. 3. INVESTING IN BALANCED & INTEGRATED SERVICES. 4. MULTIAGENCY INTERVENTIONS. PROFESSIONALS UNDERSTAND THE COMPLEX & INTERDEPENDENT NEEDS OF THEIR CLIENTS. 5. PEER INVOLVEMENT. 6. EVIDENCE BASED POLICIES 7. PUBLIC OPINION IS KEY
WWW.STREETSUPPORT.EU ASSESSMENT REPORT NATIONAL REPORTS EUROPEAN REPORT GOOD PRACTICE COLLECTION UPCOMING: NATIONAL ACTION PLANS TOOLBOX
THANK YOU ! More information on Street Support Project: www.streetsupport.eu Katrin Schiffer kschiffer@correlation-net.org Roberto Perez Gayo rpgayo@correlation-net.org
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