This week we saw how GGz Breburg, Gemeente Tilburg, CZ and VGZ decided to lay down the start of a joint approach for clients with a Serious Psychiatric Disorder (EPA). An integrated team – consisting of employees of GGz Brebrug and the Municipality of Tilburg – will provide help and support from different domains to the EPA target group in Tilburg.

Where is the best place to start? This team will help you with that.

Several municipalities are now exploring how best to shape neighborhood-oriented work within the social domain. Questions that arise here are: where to start? How do I involve residents in community-oriented work? How do administrators, civil servants and professionals work in the neighborhood with a broad perspective? And how do I give community-oriented work a place in procurement?

New publication online

The quality and accessibility of youth care is an important issue: the newspapers are full of it and politics is overflowing. Vulnerable young people and families have to deal with waiting lists too often, municipalities and providers say they have too little money for a solid aid offer. One thing people do agree on; this has to change.

Together with administrators Mariënne Verhoef and Anke van Dijke, colleague Jos Smeenge wrote this publication with possible solutions and a practical mindset to give a reform hands and feet.

Blueprint for

An expertise network has been established in the northern Netherlands for adults with intellectual disabilities, difficult to understand behavior and addiction problems. The expertise network is part of a broader collaboration between Alliade, De Zijlen, Trajectum and Vanboeijen to further improve care for this complex VG target group in the north of the Netherlands. Earlier this year these parties sealed this in a cooperation agreement.

This is how it can be done

The Netherlands places the most children out of home compared to other countries in Europe. Annually there are about 19,000 of them. As a result, over 43,000 children in the Netherlands are currently living away from home.

Collaboration for Innovation and Improvement

On March 7, a new milestone for suicide prevention in mental health care was reached at the Spoorwegmuseum in Utrecht with the kick-off of the Systematic Approach to Suicide Prevention (SAS). This learning network aims to improve suicide prevention in the treatment room and brings together project leaders and professionals from Arkin, GGZ Rivierduinen, GGZ Oost-Brabant, GGZ Eindhoven and Pro Persona. They will share best practices in suicide prevention and develop a strategy for implementing top suicide prevention within their organizations.

Care in ambulatory context
The Dune and Flowerbulb Region subregion

(Noordwijk, Katwijk, Hillegom, Lisse, Teylingen) asked EHdK late last year to guide twelve contracted providers in the transformation of social care. The goal is for providers, under the guidance of EHdK, to give form and substance to the transformation task they were given by the municipalities. By now the process has been going on for a few months and the first impressions are positive.

The Development Program “Municipal Field in Connection with the Juvenile Criminal Justice Chain in Eastern Netherlands District” has been launched. The development program is an initiative that focuses on improving the connection between the youth aid, youth protection chain and the juvenile justice chain in the district.

New steps youth aid criminal justice framework

The availability of youth aid in the criminal justice system is under pressure. In the district of Oost-Nederland, therefore, the “Juvenile Justice Chain Development Program” was started. In this program, the various criminal justice partners including the Police, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Youth Probation Organizations work closely together with the municipalities in the district to find solutions for the most important bottlenecks in the chain.

In 2023, we will push even harder for family care. After all, the cause of many youth problems lies not with the children but with their parents….

The inspiration day themed “Professionals with Guts”

Last week colleagues Nadine and Teun attended the Youth and Family Day of the Eindhoven implementing organization WIJeindhoven. The inspiration day with the theme “Professionals with Guts” where attention was paid to major themes such as “being a professional from your heart” and “looking from the perspective of the youth and family.”

We are proud to support WIJeindhoven with an improvement plan for youth aid in Eindhoven (DeltaPlan Jeugd) since April 2022. The assignment focuses on strengthening the skills of professionals and picking up more requests for help from the first line.

Very cool to be in conversation on this day with generalists of WIJeindhoven who work every day for families in Eindhoven. A day full of great conversations, inspiration and energy!

Last Monday, our colleague Merel had the opportunity to contribute to the Groninger Care Agreement (GZA) day. The GZA is an alliance of 18 organizations in the Groningen earthquake area.

We think it is important to support initiatives that are close to our own motivations in vulnerable people care: making care a little better every day. We see this fully reflected in the Movement of 0: 0 children not growing up optimally at home. That’s what the Movement of 0 is all about. A movement that can make a substantial difference in the lives of children and families.