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H2020Staff exchange2017–2022

CO-LAB · Improving collaborative working between correctional and mental health services

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-02-01 → 2022-07-31
EU contribution
€445,500
Participants
10
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Improving collaborative working between correctional and mental health services

Effective collaboration between health/welfare and criminal justice services impacts prisoner wellbeing and reduces reoffending rates. The Change Laboratory Model (CLM), a model of workplace transformation, was identified as a potential tool promoting interagency collaborative working and innovation. However, the CLM, highly successful internationally and in other practice contexts, is new to service development in criminal justice context and required validation in this setting before implementation. COLAB aimed to explore the adaptations that would be needed to maximise the likelihood of CLM success, if implemented in this new environment in the future. The specific objectives for the project were to: • Objective 1: Validate the Change Laboratory Model, ready for implementation • Objective 2: Run interactive knowledge exchange events between CLM researchers and experts in other models of collaboration and innovation. • Objective 3: Develop resources to increase awareness and competence in collaboration and innovation in the criminal justice context

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Effective collaboration between mental health (MHS) and correctional services (CS) impacts on mental illness and reduces reoffending rates. Service leaders have indicated a need for more effective models of collaboration. Researchers have identified the Change Laboratory Model (CLM) of workplace transformation as a more effective means of supporting interagency collaborative practice than current integration tools. It provides a way to optimise the effectiveness of mental healthcare provision to offenders through a model that fosters innovation and collaborative processes. However, the change laboratory, highly successful internationally and in other clinical contexts, is a new idea in prison development, none as yet being applied to the challenges facing the MHS and CS. The wickedness, complexity and unpredictability of challenges facing interagency working in these secure environments means that piloting the CLM is premature and it must first be adapted to the MHS/CS context. The aim of this study is to validate the change laboratory model ready for implementation in practice. This RISE application builds a community of practice that enriches international research capacity and cooperation to achieve this aim. It brings academic knowledge of the Change Laboratory model to the market of interagency practices between mental health and correctional services for the development of innovation and the advancement of integrated service provision to mentally ill offenders. Knowledge exchange takes place through secondments, interactive workshops, the development of workforce training programmes, study tours, shadowing opportunities and ethnographic research. Through this knowledge exchange, the consortium delivers a user-informed prototype of change laboratory model ready for implementation in the MHS and CS field. This validated change laboratory model, offers the ERA a clear strategy with which to promote integrated care for mentally ill offenders.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • UNIVERSITETET I STAVANGER · StavangerCoordinatorNorway
  • BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY · POOLEUnited Kingdom
  • FOOTPRINTS PROJECT · BOURNEMOUTHUnited Kingdom
  • HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO · HelsinkiFinland
  • HOGSKOLEN I MOLDE · MoldeNorway
  • KRIMINALOMSORGSDIREKTORATET · LILLESTROMNorway
  • PROFESSIONSHOJSKOLEN ABSALON S/I · SLAGELSEDenmark
  • STICHTING FORENSISCH PSYCHIATRISCHCENTRUM DR. S. VAN MESDAG · GroningenNetherlands
  • TYOTERVEYSLAITOS · HelsinkiFinland
  • UNIVERSITE DE NEUCHATEL · NeuchatelSwitzerland

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union