Ett samverkansprojekt mellan socialtjänst och psykiatri kring personer med psykiska funktionshinder och missbruksproblem
This study focuses on a cooperation (collaboration) project between municipalities social services and the regions psychiatric care. They will capture a client / patient group that often risks falling between the chairs, persons with a psychic disorder and a problem of substance abuse. The purpose of the study was to study the projects cooperation on its organizational level. The central questions of issue were: What is cooperation in the project? What view do the professionals have of the projects cooperation, and partly have on members of the client group persons with a psychic disorder and a problem of substance abuse? The study was implemented through participating observations on three meetings with the govern group, the project group and the POS-team and interviews with two representatives from each principal. A total of 17 informants took part in the study, of which six of them were interviewed. The results point out a cooperation in different forms, which takes place on many levels; through three constellations (govern group, project group and POS-team) which through discussions of the target group on the meetings have in different ways tried to find forms for cooperation. That has included education efforts, study visits and common meetings. The professionals view of cooperation is predominantly positive. They see the profit to be the knowledge and the understanding for partly the complex problems around the target group, partly their own professionals possibilities and limitations in cooperation concerning view of knowledge, laws and legal framework and the organizational structure. The professionals view of cooperation and of the target group is of multifaceted character.