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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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