Une approche de collaboration en centre d’hébergement. Retour sur l’unité de vie La clé des champs

GoalThis paper is discussing an intervention program that has been developed in the housing unit called La clé des champs, in a residential centre of Montreal. This unit is trying to create an adaptive environment for persons who live with severe or moderate neurological disorders due to an accident or a disease.MethodThe research project relied on Chen's theory-driven evaluation model (2012, 2015) and combined a document analysis with research interviews conducted with several persons living in the unit and with members of the staff.ResultsOn this basis, the intervention model distinctive features, its levers for action and some of its outcomes, for the persons who live in the residential centre, are drawn.ConclusionFinally, we discuss the issues at stake concerning the conditions of implementation of the program, its sustainability and its transfer in other residential centres.