helsinki youth strategy
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City of Helsinki
- youth work strategy
Interaction for Action
3 November 2015, Gothenburg
Director of Youth Affairs Tommi Laitio
Twitter @tommilaitio
Helsinki
• 600 000 inhabitants Helsinki
Capital of Finland
600 000 inhabitants
(annual growth +9000, of
which 70% migrants)
Age cohorts:
10-17-yo: 5 000
18-29: 10 000
16 % teenagers w/ migrant
background
Image: www.visithelsinki.fi
Goals for Youth Work
1. Universal services for all
young people: the entire city is
a nice place for young people.
2. Young people have influence
on their neighbourhoods.
Instead of a youth council the
goal is that every teenager has
a democratic experience
through participatory budgeting
and activist groups.
3. Every child has a hobby.
4. Tackling inequalities
between individuals and
neighbourhoods. More work
with those individuals and
neighbourhoods, which need
more.
Structure of Youth Work
Structure
• Youth Department is its own department under Deputy Mayor for Culture &
Education.
• 400 youth workers, 60 locations. Most work carried out by the city.
• Budget 31 million euros (193 euros / 10-29-year-old). Grants to NGOs appr. 2 million
euros.
• Targeted youth work (young people at risk) carried out together with Social Services
and Education.
City-level responsibility:
Cultural Youth Work
Swedish-speaking youth work
City-level responsibility:
Targeted youth work
Drug & Alcohol Prevention
City-level
responsibility:
Civic
engagement
Environmental
education
Evaluation of impact
Evaluation of Impact
1. City-level goals for all
departments set by city council
for for years (hobbies,
democratic participation etc.)
2. Young people´s wellbeing
report: annual report and online
database combining young
people´s experiences with latest
research and statistics.
3. Youth department´s own
goals:
number of contacts
number of hobby groups
Number of young people
taking part in planning,
executing and evaluating youth
work
4. Annual customer survey.
Collaboration
Collaboration • Umbrella organisation for youth NGOs
• Two main professional networks:
Child Protection Network (all departments providing services for children and young
people) 0-15-yos.
Young People´s Service Network (all departments, police, the army, employment
services, NGOs, young people) 15-29-yos.
Joint venues with libraries
and adult education
Summer job voucher
for 15-year-olds
Online database on
young people´s wellbeing
Participatory budgeting:
young people decide on youth work
Tommi Laitio
Director of Youth Affairs
City of Helsinki, Youth Department
Hietaniemenkatu 9B
PL 5000, 00099 City of Helsinki
tommi.laitio (a) hel.fi
tommilaitio.munstadi.fi
ruuti.net
twitter: tommilaitio
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