Integrated services in primary health
                   care
             The family house
         Implementation strategy
Professor Willy-Tore Mørch
University of Tromsø, Faculty of Health Sciences
Integrated services pyramide

•   Treatment
•   (Diagnosed)
                                  Clinics
•   Indicated
•   Targeted
                             Municipalities
      Prevention


                     Municipalities (health stations
                    Child protection, social services)
•   Universal                  Screening
     prevention
The Family’s House – a Family Centre
    Model



        Third floor/level – Indicated intervention
        Children, adolescents and families with
        particular needs




        Second floor/level – Selective intervention
        Children, adolescents and families with
        individual needs



        First floor/level – Universal intervention
        All children and adolescents with families



        Foundation
        Professional infra-structure

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The Family’s House is an interdisciplinary municipal
    service that is meant to support the mental and physical
    health of expectant mothers, children and adolescents.

• The municipality’s primary healthcare and social measures
  geared toward children, adolescents and their families are
  coordinated, congregated and embedded locally.

• The central services that often constitute the Family’s
  House are a healthcare clinic for children, including
  pregnancy care, child welfare services, pedagogical-
  psychological services, and an open kindergarten.




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The purpose of this collaboration is to promote good health and
    welfare among children, adolescents and their families, while
    strengthening the conditions in which children and adolescents
    grow up (RKCCY, 2008). The objective may be reached through:

•      making support and services readily available
•      supporting and strengthening parents in their role as caregiver
       and mentor
•      assisting children, adolescents and their families in strengthening
       social networks
•      developing communication and work methods that encourage
       children and parents to participate
•      developing good, coordinated and interdisciplinary services for
       consumers
•      being available as a neighborhood gathering place
•      distributing relevant information

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Activities - Family’s House project in Norway

• Research
        User satisfaction studies of parents in the Open Kindergarten
        Collaboration among professionals
        Survey of all Norwegian municipalities in order to determine
         the number of Family’s Houses, content and organizational
         structures.
• Information and support to municipalities
        Book (in English)
        Network and conferences for practitioners




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Activity plan for sound mental
                                        health
Levels                     ,

     Research and                                Development of sound mental health for children and adolescents
 evidensbased practice
                                E.g. IY, ART, Family group conference, «What about us» (Families with children with reduced
                                                                    level of functioning)


    Implementation                                    Stimulate to use reserach and evidensbased interventions
      Evaluation                                           Evaluate implementation of new interventions
      Adjustment                                                      (implementation strategy)


  Describe and justify         Local health profile             Prioritize                 Selection             Organizing models in
interventions in use and                                      Interventions            of screening and             use and future
 potential interventions          (Incidence and               and practice            assessment tools           organizing models
                               prevalence of mental      (e.g. IY, ART, Family      (e.g. ECBI, SDQ etc)         (e.g. from separated
                                 health problems)           group conference                                      agencies to Family
                                                                                                                         House



         Assessment            Epidemiology and           Science and evidens        Validated screening            Recommended
                               Standards of living          based practice.                   and                organization models
                                                             Practice in use              Assessment
                                                                (present            (e.g. Estonian norms)        (E.g. Family house)
                                                             interventions)
Levels of services

• Treatment
       Diagnosed disorder, above clinical cut-off

• Indicated prevention
       Symptomes of disorders

• Targeted prevention
      Presence of risk factors

• Universal prevention
      No known risk factors or symptomes
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Implementation strategy
                        Dissemination

• The system model:
        Formal organizational structures in both the purveyor’s and
        the receiving organization’s are connected for safe
anchoring        of the intervention.
        Contact moves from a personel level to a system level in
order   to prepare for formal political and administrative decisions.
        The aim is to place the intervention as a part of the
        municipality’s health policy




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Implementation strategy


Adaptation:
• Assessment of the characteristics of the municipality and
  the needs for the intervention
        Prevalence of individuals with the targeted problems,
        incidence rate of the problems, existing interventions etc.




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Implementation strategy
                       Adaptation
• Agency readyness assessment
      Acceptability for the intervention in the agencies
      (agreement) Motivation for implementation, ideological
      compatibility between the agency and the intervention (e.g.
      theory, manual based intertvention)
      Identification of eary adopters, late adopters and
      refusers (Roberts, 1995)
      Identification of agency characteristics (number of
      employees)
      Allocation of resources for the intervention, both
      human, time and monetary


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Implementation strategy


Implementation:
       Selection of target population (e.g. adolescents with
       conduct disorder)
       Selection of service level (treatment,
       indicated/targeted           and/or universal prevention)
       Training of personell by sertified mentors (program
       content, progression and methods, ethics,
       refinement/education, respect people’s needs and
       problems, integrity)
       Supervision and coaching, longlasting supervision


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Sustainability
Organizational detoriation
        Prevention of organizational «amnesia» (shift of
        leadership,        new ideas)
        Development of systems preventing close-down of the
        intervention due to resignments, pregnancies,
        illness etc
Fidelity detoriation
        Drift in program content, dose, target population,
        implementation evaluatuion
Competence detoriation
       Sertification, resertification, supervision, «super-
days», annual conferences

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Riskilaste konverents 2012: Willy Tore Morch: Integrated services in primary health care family house

  • 1.
    Integrated services inprimary health care The family house Implementation strategy Professor Willy-Tore Mørch University of Tromsø, Faculty of Health Sciences
  • 2.
    Integrated services pyramide • Treatment • (Diagnosed) Clinics • Indicated • Targeted Municipalities Prevention Municipalities (health stations Child protection, social services) • Universal Screening prevention
  • 3.
    The Family’s House– a Family Centre Model Third floor/level – Indicated intervention Children, adolescents and families with particular needs Second floor/level – Selective intervention Children, adolescents and families with individual needs First floor/level – Universal intervention All children and adolescents with families Foundation Professional infra-structure 3
  • 4.
    The Family’s Houseis an interdisciplinary municipal service that is meant to support the mental and physical health of expectant mothers, children and adolescents. • The municipality’s primary healthcare and social measures geared toward children, adolescents and their families are coordinated, congregated and embedded locally. • The central services that often constitute the Family’s House are a healthcare clinic for children, including pregnancy care, child welfare services, pedagogical- psychological services, and an open kindergarten. 4 23.10.2012
  • 5.
    The purpose ofthis collaboration is to promote good health and welfare among children, adolescents and their families, while strengthening the conditions in which children and adolescents grow up (RKCCY, 2008). The objective may be reached through: • making support and services readily available • supporting and strengthening parents in their role as caregiver and mentor • assisting children, adolescents and their families in strengthening social networks • developing communication and work methods that encourage children and parents to participate • developing good, coordinated and interdisciplinary services for consumers • being available as a neighborhood gathering place • distributing relevant information 5 23.10.2012
  • 6.
    Activities - Family’sHouse project in Norway • Research  User satisfaction studies of parents in the Open Kindergarten  Collaboration among professionals  Survey of all Norwegian municipalities in order to determine the number of Family’s Houses, content and organizational structures. • Information and support to municipalities  Book (in English)  Network and conferences for practitioners 6 23.10.2012
  • 7.
    Activity plan forsound mental health Levels , Research and Development of sound mental health for children and adolescents evidensbased practice E.g. IY, ART, Family group conference, «What about us» (Families with children with reduced level of functioning) Implementation Stimulate to use reserach and evidensbased interventions Evaluation Evaluate implementation of new interventions Adjustment (implementation strategy) Describe and justify Local health profile Prioritize Selection Organizing models in interventions in use and Interventions of screening and use and future potential interventions (Incidence and and practice assessment tools organizing models prevalence of mental (e.g. IY, ART, Family (e.g. ECBI, SDQ etc) (e.g. from separated health problems) group conference agencies to Family House Assessment Epidemiology and Science and evidens Validated screening Recommended Standards of living based practice. and organization models Practice in use Assessment (present (e.g. Estonian norms) (E.g. Family house) interventions)
  • 8.
    Levels of services •Treatment Diagnosed disorder, above clinical cut-off • Indicated prevention Symptomes of disorders • Targeted prevention Presence of risk factors • Universal prevention No known risk factors or symptomes 8 23.10.2012
  • 9.
    Implementation strategy Dissemination • The system model: Formal organizational structures in both the purveyor’s and the receiving organization’s are connected for safe anchoring of the intervention. Contact moves from a personel level to a system level in order to prepare for formal political and administrative decisions. The aim is to place the intervention as a part of the municipality’s health policy 9 23.10.2012
  • 10.
    Implementation strategy Adaptation: • Assessmentof the characteristics of the municipality and the needs for the intervention Prevalence of individuals with the targeted problems, incidence rate of the problems, existing interventions etc. 10 23.10.2012
  • 11.
    Implementation strategy Adaptation • Agency readyness assessment Acceptability for the intervention in the agencies (agreement) Motivation for implementation, ideological compatibility between the agency and the intervention (e.g. theory, manual based intertvention) Identification of eary adopters, late adopters and refusers (Roberts, 1995) Identification of agency characteristics (number of employees) Allocation of resources for the intervention, both human, time and monetary 11 23.10.2012
  • 12.
    Implementation strategy Implementation: Selection of target population (e.g. adolescents with conduct disorder) Selection of service level (treatment, indicated/targeted and/or universal prevention) Training of personell by sertified mentors (program content, progression and methods, ethics, refinement/education, respect people’s needs and problems, integrity) Supervision and coaching, longlasting supervision 12 23.10.2012
  • 13.
    Sustainability Organizational detoriation Prevention of organizational «amnesia» (shift of leadership, new ideas) Development of systems preventing close-down of the intervention due to resignments, pregnancies, illness etc Fidelity detoriation Drift in program content, dose, target population, implementation evaluatuion Competence detoriation Sertification, resertification, supervision, «super- days», annual conferences 13 23.10.2012
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