youth support project 16.5.2013 stockholm

Youth Support Project, Job forum – Stockholm 16.5.2013Tero Vornanen, Kristiina Sallinen

Open College and Guidance Center are the activities of

Youth Support Project (2010-2014) administrated by the

North Karelia Municipal Education and Training

Consortium.

Project`s target group: 15-24-year old unemployed

North Karelians

Used resources 31.12.2012:Guidance Center 1,42 milj. €

Open College1,16 milj. €

The project is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF).

Youth Support`s goals:

• to offer possibilities to VET or work experience and gain every day life skills

• to develop the functions of guidance and conselling e.g. dialogical counselling as well as Open Vocational College

• to avoid marginalization and social exlusion of young people

Actions:– North Karelia Municipal Education and Training Consortium:

Counselling and Guidance center and Open College– Joensuu City, Youth workshop: Starttiverstas (low level individual

coaching)

Corner stones:

Counselling and Guidance Center (CGC)

• Starting point survey, sector guidance, recognition and clarification of individual obstacles

• Valuntary confidential counselling• Career counselling and supported

transfers to education (transitions)• Expertise on counselling, knowledge

of the educational structure and qualifications, and methodical know-how

• Networks and partnerships• Flexible transition to open college or

other services

Open College

• Individual, functional and alternative studies, learning by doing, individual length and content (also short-term study periods)

• Implementation as labour political education

• Permanent co-operation between Open College and CGC helps to make realistic plans for the future (PSP)

• Non-stop student intake• Studies are identificated in future studies in

VET or adult education• personal guidance and support is offered

constantly with CGCCommunity based work orientation → active participation of the youngShared responsibility→ diverse knowledge, better coping at work

Counselling side by side Evaluating and developing of the project

The upper secondary schools (VET/High

school)

Employment and economic

development offices

Workshops, out-reached youth work

Self-guided, friends, family

Social office, youth work

Joint application

system

Apprenticeship training

Labour market training

Salary supported workplace

• Improving studying and working skills

• Starting VET studies• Improving life managment skills• Finishing VET studies

Guidance to other services

Becoming acquantained with the

services

Starting point survey

Strenghtening the life situation and social

network

Professional aim setting

Supported transfer

work experiments

Counselling Center

Instructional services/ sender

Dialogical, activating and counselling side

by side

Open college

Aim setting

Non-stop flexible and supported counselling

Health services

Criminal sanctions agency




Supporting the young to active participationOpen college and counselling centers process chart

Transition to education

Becoming acquainted to the

services

• Service and sector guidance and

• Co-operation with network operators

Starting point survey

• confidential guidance relationship

• Validation of customers life situation

• Student counselling methods

• Individual coaching

Aim setting

• Short- and long-term aim setting and evaluation during the guidance

• Methods i.a. target form (Goaling)

Strenghtening the life situation and social

network• Supporting the

strenghts and skills• Social network survey• Situation and skill

training• Increasing the self-

observation• Small group activities• Methods: strengh

cards, screening important things in life

Professional aim setting

• Improving studying and working skills

• Previous work experiments

• Methods i.a. career cards, school and workplace visits, web-sites

• Guidance to other services, network co-operation• Encouraging and empowerment

• Training and work experiment, practical training• Online guidance (Facebook )

COUNSELLING CENTER

Dialogical, activating and counselling side by side

Transition to education

• Co-operation with schools

• Other co-operation partners

• Communication with student and networks

• Monitoring and support

Necessary while guidance

Evaluating and developing

OPEN COLLEGE1. Applying for education• Guidance in counselling office• Interview, checking the selection criteria• Application to employment and economic

development office• Student selection

2. Individual stydy plan • Individual lenght, contents and aims• Everyday life skills, strengthen study and worklife

skills, vocational aims• education aims review

3. Vocational education Options: • The North Karelia College • The North Karelia Adult Education Centre• On-the-job learning based individual training in

college or adult education center

4. Guidance after open college• Joint application system• Open or flexible access to schools• Guidance to other services

Counselling Center: Guidance side by side

Co-operation with: Economic Development Office, Social Insurance Institution,schools, health care and social services

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OPEN COLLEGEGroup based preparatory training (to VET)

Core studies, ia.• Finnish 1–4 cr• Swedish 1 cr• English1-2 cr• Maths 1–3 cr• Physics and chemistry 1 cr• Arts and culture 1 cr• Psychology 1 cr• free-choice studies, which

vary

Elementary school studies to revise grades

Self-knowledge and learning skills : communication and social skills, learning methods, phycical education

Preparation for the post-graduate studies and and working life: career counselling, working life knowledge, alternative study forms, different short-term certificate courses (ia. first-aid, hygiene proficiency)

Student counselling, work-based learning: periods that support career counselling and work skills

2 – 3 days/week 2 – 3 days/week Individually:

Youth Support Project

816 young by the end of March 2013

- 493 longterm councelling- 323 shortterm counselling (under 7 hours)- In the end of counselling 48 % of clients transfered to further studies- Most of the young aged 17-22- Open College number of students 298, including preparatory studies

for VET 220 and vocational training 78 students

Statistics:

Sex of clients (n=493)

male 260female 233

Statistics

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100

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200

250

300

132

251

79

26

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Number of clients with Discontinued Studies (73%)

Statistics

Long-term counselling

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60

80

100

120

108

96

55

6257

44

8 742

52

The clients (323), services in the end of counselling

before counselling during counselling after counselling

Social ServicesMental Health ServicesSubstance CounsellingServicesCriminal Sanctions Agency

Statistics

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Contact information:

Joensuu

Tero Vornanen Project Manager

[email protected] p. 0504023195

Kristiina Sallinen Education Planner


Anu Kotialainen Counsellor


Teresa Ikonen Counsellor


Johanna Erola Counsellor


Helena Härkönen Project Assistant


Kitee

Heli Pesonen Counsellor


Juuka/Lieksa/Nurmes/Valtimo

Marja Piiroinen Counsellor


Liperi/Outokumpu

Juha Vänskä Counsellor


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