youth department´s personnel interviewing youth around the city 10.3.2015
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”NuHa” – how young people and Youth Departments personnel were participated in creating new vision
Meiju Hovi10.3.2015
Backround: three important words
•Knowledge-based (planning)
•Participation: both young people and personnel
•Learning
The process of creating new vision is divided in 4 parts:
Interviews of young
people
Participation of personnel
Partners in cooperation
Political guiding
Personnel ”take to the streets”
Interviews and meetings
Youth board meetings
Discussion forums (4) for personnel in spring 2014
Why – What – How - Where
• All the young people do not participate in acitivities organized by Youth Deaparment
• Extensive and rich knowledge about young people´s ideas, dreams and realities of life
• The whole personnal is with in strategy process
• A mutual experience for the staff
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Why – What – How - Where
• Themes of interview:– Leisure time: with whom, where, what they do and
what they would like to do– Relationships, specially friendships– What they think about Helsinki and own neigbourhood– Social media: how often, which apps, with whom– Dreams ja hopes about future– In which issues they need to have more influence
Why – What – How - Where
• Working as a twosome– Rule 1: not with nearest colleague
• Methods: observation and interview• 10-15 minutes observation (orientation)• Aim is to have ”a nice chat with youngsters”• Rule 2: ”Big ears, tiny mouth”
Why – What – How - Where
• Our aim was to meet young people in the places where we do not work – Rule 3: choose a place where you dont´t normally work– Let yourself be suprised!
• Coverage: city center, suburbs
• Groupping of interview spots:1. Public places: shopping centres, parks, skeiting parks,
sports fields, public transport, beaches, events etc.2. Partly public places: libraries, coffee shops, schools,
swimming pools, flea markets, gyms etc. 3. Groups: different group activities organized by NGOs
TimelineEnquiry to personnel-Nov 2013-Ideas of interview spots-Wishes of working pair and interview spots
Test group-Dec 2013-Testing interview method-Planning training for personnel
Trainig for personnel-Feb – May 2014-13 training sessions-347 participants
Interviews and reporting- Feb – June 2014
Work shops (2)-April 2014-Defining subjects of research
Workshops (5)-Aug 2014-Analysing data
Raport is ready!-Nov 2014
Thank-you letters -Nov 2014-Partly public places and groups
Young people´s comments of results- Nov 2014 in RuutiExpo event
Results 1
Overarching
•”Nice” as an expectation of leisure time•Importance of friends•Social media is commonplace matter for young people•Young people feel at home in their own neigbourhood•Need of places which fit to young people´s identity (e.g. age)•Not enough places specially in the evenings and in wintertime•Hope for independence •Aspiration to get a job or study place
Results 2
Dividers•Young people didn´t talk much about money, but you could interpret that there is differencies in personal wealth •Helsinki is not the same for all: for some the city is big and for others borderline stands in nearest shopping center •The vistas of the future are different: some hope to get reasonable job and others dream about travelling around the world and a dream profession•Mates also differentiate young people. Friends have impact where you spend your free time, what you do, what your want to achieve
•Friendships are very important to young people What about those who are lonely…?
Some numbers
• We visited appox. 140 different places around Helsinki and met 1012 young people
• 353 employees did 655 interviews
• We organized 13 training sessions• ”Data festival” in August: 113/292 participants
• We employed 2 unemployed young person (academic education) to help us in the project
• 55 pages in report
More information
Merja HoviChief [email protected]. +358 (0)50 559 1757
Harri TaponenSenior [email protected]. +358 (0)50 559 1712