For-Care research interim report II - The Belgian MDO reform programme implementation of health care trajectories for MDO

This second Interim Report of the For-CARE Project, commissioned by the FOD-SPF Public Health, is a state of the art report of research activities in 2017 on the reform process of health care access and delivery for Mentally Disordered Offenders (MDO)1 in Belgium. It aims to inform stakeholders about the research progress and to strengthen the dialogue with the authorities and the field actors on intermediate findings. Since the research is ongoing, definitive conclusions cannot be drawn yet.
The objectives of the For-CARE project
The For-CARE project is a prospective implementation study of the 2016 reform program for MDO in Belgium. It focuses on three main objectives: (1) facilitating factors and barriers regarding multi-sectoral and interorganisational collaboration between services within and across Health, Justice, and Social welfare sectors; (2) the analysis of MDO care trajectories and the factors that influence them, including a feasibility study on a monitoring system of MDO care trajectories; and (3) a study of the perspectives of the MDO, their families and informal carers.