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HOT Challenge – An Outdoor Development Program for Dutch Homeless People - Rijk Smitskamp and Bernhard Holtrop
HVO-Querido is a homeless aid organisation in The Netherlands. With about 1350 employees it offers shelter, housing guidance and daytime activities to 4750 vulnerable citizens, including homeless and people with a psychiatric and/or addiction problems. The homeless approach in the big cities in the Netherlands follows a pragmatic, procedurised, problem-solving approach. This includes a focus on solving the problems and handling the ‘nuisance’ that homeless people create for t
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Group Dialogue Within Prisons by Peter Garrett, a paper published in the Groupwork Journal Vol 8 (1) 1995
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