From struggling to survive to a life based on values and choices: first-person experiences of participating in a Norwegian Housing First project
Introduction: Persons with concurrent substance-abuse and mental-health problems often lack permanent housing, and have a poorer quality of life and lower levels of functioning than persons who primarily have mental-health problems. A Housing First project (HF) began during the autumn of 2013 in a N...
Main Authors: | Ellen Andvig, Jan Kåre Hummelvoll |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Scandinavian University Press/Universitetsforlaget
2015-09-01
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Series: | Nordic Journal of Social Research |
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Online Access: | https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/njsr/article/view/2088 |
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