Outr each Youth w or k City of Hyvinkää, HOPE Workshop M ultidisciplinar y Cooper ation D evelopment Pr oject Finnish Youth Cooperation – Allianssi City of Hyvinkää City of Lohja City of Porvoo
Outreach Youth Work Basic Thoughts… • Create strong and reliable connection with young people • Young people’s life story must be heard in environment which feels natural and save to the young • We should give space and respect to the young people. The Young people is the heart and the crystal and on the other hand, he/she is an adult…? • Young people will be directed hands –on to the services which are needed and accepted
Hope nuorten työpajatoiminta / Hope workshop
www.hyvinkaa.fi
Outreach Youth Work Basic Thoughts… Outreach Youth Workers •
needs to know what is happening in young people’s word
•
needs to know own areas services
•
needs strong multidisciplinary cooperation
•
needs to make themselves known in own area (young people’s social environment and authorities)
Sometimes (or Usually?) we have to come out from our own comfort zone and expose ourselves to the changes, criticism and distrust
Hope nuorten työpajatoiminta / Hope workshop
www.hyvinkaa.fi
Outreach Youth work
Meeting
Outreach Youth work's operating principles
Familiarity, Dialogue Openness Confidence
Cooperation
Outreach Youth work's practices
Young people
F I R S T
Evaluation of service needs
Respect Motivating
Escorting to the services
Cooperation
Compact, organized, multidisciplinary Cooperation according young’s needs
C O N T A C T
Individual guidance Group activities
Meeting Fears suspicion
Motivated to Outreach Youth Work
Motivated to services
Hope nuorten tyĂśpajatoiminta / Hope workshop
Adhesion to the services
www.hyvinkaa.fi
Observe
Preparedness , Back up C O U N S E L L I N G E N D S My way
Outreach Youth Work
Hyvinkää Finnish Youth Housing Association Vocational school: Uumo and it’s hostel Cooperation with Hope and Nupa teams Street and bar -work Workshop Group activities Vocational school: Hyvinkää high schools Cooperation with Hope and Nupa teams Street and bar -work
Riihimäki
Loppi
Vocational school work
Workshop Individual guidance
Vocational school: Sakonkatu Karankatu Work based learning -project Cooperation with Riksutiimi Street and bar -work
Vocational school: Loppi high school Cooperation in the area
Cooperation Development in Riihimäki Time Out -project Vocational school: Kauppalankatu, Art school Youth Housing Association Street and bar -work
Hausjärvi Workshop Individual guidance Vocational school: Hausjärvi high school Cooperation in the area
Supervisor of Outreach Youth Work
Hope nuorten työpajatoiminta / Hope workshop
www.hyvinkaa.fi
Outreach Youth Work 26.11.20081.12.2009
Contact from
1.1.2010 - 31.12.2010
1.1.2011 -1.6.2011
Vocational school / high school
29
36
12
Elementary school
10
7
7
Social services
0
4
1
Psychiatric services
1
0
1
Police
2
1
0
Work Shops
15
19
3
Labors service center
0
0
0
Employment office
9
2
0
Youth
6
3
2
Friend
6
4
1
Street work
10
5
0
Parents
2
5
4
Social media
0
1
0
Finnish Youth Housing Association
0
0
1
Others
1
0
1
Other community, vocational school
0
0
3
Other community, social services
0
1
0
91
87
35
All
Hope nuorten tyรถpajatoiminta / Hope workshop
www.hyvinkaa.fi
Outreach Youth Work Development Development should focus to the group activities Problem is not to find target group, but find services needed fast enough (can we influence to the services?) There should be young people’s “home base” for group activities, and for talking, cooking and just for hanging too. (Like we are doing in basic youth work) Group activities should be something where young people can wait right service. At the same they learn regularity, responsibility and it is possible turn the gaze in to the future. Young people’s services should be planned comprehensively supportive. Outreach Youth Work should be expert of knowing rapidly changing situations, needs and expectations
Hope nuorten työpajatoiminta / Hope workshop
www.hyvinkaa.fi
Outreach Youth Work Young people says: •
”sometimes I feel like society is pushing me out”
•
”someone can be unemployed, outsider from the work, like I am, but it doesn’t make me an outcast person” (NEET)
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”how can anybody expect that I can go to the school from the gutter and I take care of bills and I live on with that kind sum of money when the reality is that I don’t have enough money to buy train tickets so that I can go to the school. Then they expect that I pay my debt and then I wait couple of years, and then, but just maybe, they could give me apartment. And all the time I must act normally, like everything would be all right”.
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” There is hope left in Outreach Youth Work”
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“”It is good to have someone who knows me and takes care of my things with me so I don’t have to tell my story all over again and then again and again”
•
”it is easy to talk to you, you don’t ever judge me”
Hope nuorten työpajatoiminta / Hope workshop
www.hyvinkaa.fi
Outreach Youth Work
Thank You For Your Interest Anu Vesterinen Supervisor of Outreach Youth Work City Of Hyvinkää anu.vesterinen@hyvinkaa.fi +358407171393
Someone asked me sometime why I am doing this job, if I could earn my money easier. I still don’t have the answer…
Hope nuorten työpajatoiminta / Hope workshop
www.hyvinkaa.fi