Table 1 Typology of key emphases of Australian Community Rehabilitation Units
Service Type | Service name | Timeframe | Location | Staffing | Built environment | Tenure | Philosophy | Treatment | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clinical | Integrated peer-support | NGO Partnership | Cluster housing | Apartment block | Repurposed community hospital | Single-occupancy | Dual-occupancy | Congregate | Permanent | Transitional | Rehabilitation | Support | Community access/partnership | Recovery | 24-h staffing | Living skills | Individual therapies | Group therapies/programs | |||||
Nursing | MDT | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Community-based residential care | Community Residencesa | 1994-early 2000s | NSW | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – |
Community Care Unitb | 1996-early 2000s | VIC | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | |
Transitional residential rehabilitation | Community Care Unit (CCU)c | Early 2000s+ | VIC, QLD | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Hawthorne Housed | 2006–2009 | WA | – | ✓ | – | – | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | |
Community Rehabilitation Centree | 2007+ | SA | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | |
CCU (Integrated)f | 2014+ | QLD | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
Community Recovery Programg | 2014+ | VIC | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | – | – | ✓ | – | – | – | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | – | ✓ | |