Samen aan zet in Harderwijk: Integraal werken met cliënt en omgeving om effectief om te gaan met multiproblematiek

In June 2017, the municipality of Harderwijk formed a social team. In this team, several parties work together to support citizens who experience problems in multiple life domains. Professionals, citizens and their social environment engage together in a stakeholder dialogue, which initiates a learning process. Problems in multiple life domains (work, health, finances, relationships, housing, etc) often go together. For example, when someone loses their employment, this often has as a consequence that income decreases, and stress increases. In turn, this can impact health and relationships. Therefore, an approach for problems in multiple life domains has to target at the entire situation, such as the stakeholder dialogue in this project. This approach is evaluated in a responsive evaluation.

In this type of interactive, participatory research, relevant outcomes are determined with the stakeholders. In addition, this project generates products which are of direct use to professionals and municipalities, such as a training with materials.