Individual planning, shelter, homelessness, recovery

Each social service should be provided on the basis of the individually defined needs of each client. The mapping of needs is therefore a never-ending cycle in the service. In this context our research question was: What kind of areas of individual planning exist and what is the implication potential of it? The article aims to map out individual planning areas for the homeless using different foreign sources and to suggest implications for education in social work with this target group in the context of the recovery concept. Authors use the content analysis of professional resources to achieve their goal, namely the thematic analysis of foreign texts. As part of the thematic categorization of individual articles, separate categories have been derived, which can be applied to the individual planning process in shelters for the homeless. These are the following categories: retaining housing, managing finances, health, the existence of support networks, a meaningful use of leisure time, self-efficacy, control of substance abuse, and self-image. As part of the findings resulting from the analysis, the authors formulated recommendations for the future social workers education. The recovery concept is based on the reinforcement of a client’s hope, sense of life, meaning, and purpose can be considered as a certain unifying element.