YOUTH WORKSHOPS AND YOUTH POLICY IN FINLAND The Social Empowerment in Youth Work Erik Häggman State Provincial Office of Western Finland

YOUTH WORKSHOPS AND YOUTH POLICY IN FINLAND

The Social Empowerment in Youth Work

Erik Häggman

State Provincial Office of Western Finland

Reykjavik 10.11.2009/Erik Häggman

About the presentation

• Legislation and policy

• Youth workshops

• Outreach Youth work

• Crossesectoral cooperation

• Developement projects


Legislation


YOUTH WORKSHOPS AND YOUTH POLICY IN FINLAND

• The European Youth Pact and the Lisbon Strategy - the Common Challenge: the Age Structure

• The Youth Act• Operational Structures on Youth Policy• The Social Empowerment

- The Youth Workshop Activity- The Outreach Youth Work- The Multiprofessional Co-Operation


THE YOUTH ACT 72/2006

• The Purpose: ... – to support young people´s growth and independence, – to promote young people´s active citizenship and empowerment– to improve young people´s growth and livingconditions

• under 29 years of age

• The Social Empowerment: ... – measures targeted to young people– to improve life management skills and prevent exclusion


THE YOUTH ACT 72/2006

• The Youth Policy Development Programme – quidelines for youth policy – The M. of E. together with the other ministries concerned

Operational structures on Youth Policy• Government´s desicion:

– Youth Policy Development Programme 2007-2011• over 500 measures in 9 themies

• Implementation:– Ministries: as part of their operational and financial plans and

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• Evalution:– The Advisory Council for Youth Affairs


The Social Empowerment- measures targeted to young people- to improve life management skills and prevent exclusion

- The Youth Workshop Activity- The Outreach Youth Work, new investment- The Multiprofessional Co-Operation, under plannig,


Youth Workshops


67000 16-26 years old outside labour market and education in 2006

Finished Education level

Basiceducation 00-06

General upperSecondaryschools 00-01

Vocationaleducation00 -03 All in 2006

In Education 312881 43533 42986 399400

Outside 40307 3974 23562 67843

At Labour market 71048 22344 129959 223351

Other 20796 1513 5100 27409

All 445032 71364 201607 718003


% of age group 17-24 unemployed in 2008


State subsidies for youth workshops activities 2003 - 2010

Province 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 20092010

Etelä-Suomi 220 000 € 375 000 € 570 000 € 1 260 000 € 1 875 000 € 1 925 000 € 2 070 000 €

Itä-Suomi 120 000 € 195 000 € 310 000 € 570 000 € 845 000 € 925 000 € 1 100 000 €

Lappi 72 000 € 83 000 € 130 000 € 250 000 € 370 000 € 415 000 € 450 000 €

Länsi-Suomi 280 000 € 575 000 € 700 000 € 1 480 000 € 2 195 000 € 2 300 000 € 2 550 000 €

Oulu 116 000 € 180 000 € 290 000 € 540 000 € 815 000 € 935 000 € 1 080 000 €

All 808 000 € 1 408 000 € 2 000 000 € 4 100 000 € 6 100 000 € 6 500 000 € 7 250 000 € 7 800 000 €

Outreach youth work 2 500 000 € 2 500 000 € 4 650 000 €


The Social Empowerment:

The Youth Workshop Activity

• build bridges between four sectors• average in 2008 was 22 000/month

– unemployed just now 34 000 under 25-y. (sept 2009)

• and in the youth workshops were 9000/year, means 4500/month

• under 29-years old: 60 % men and 40% women• mostly guided from the labour force offices, 63%, the

social care 13% and the education sector 10%• without guidance entered 5 %


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Youth workshops covers 73 %of the municipalities


The Social Empowerment:

The Youth Workshop Activity

• AIM is to find:– realistic plan for the future– motivation to do as it is said in the realistic plan– commitment to the own future

• Activities: - learnig by doing- rythm of the day and night, - brush up social skills

• Results: 75% +/25% - -> not in this time...


Placement after workshop activities 2005-2008

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The Outreach Youth Work

Reykjavik 10.11.2009/Erik HäggmanThe Social Empowerment ...The Outreach Youth Work

– the newest investment by the state subsidy– way to find young person who needs help to catch

services– reason for the outreach work is the lack of

initiative/self-help– close co-operation with youth workshops– town and country side; differencies– Costs: €1,1 million/40 years period/ one person or

€ 27 500/year/one young person: make it to be visible


Outreach work in 2009

• Covers more 130 municipalities

• 2,5 milj euro

• Estimated in 2010 4,75 milj euro

Reykjavik 10.11.2009/Erik HäggmanThe Social Empowerment ...The Outreach Youth Work

• Results– "catched" 1999 young people; 64% boys/men, 36%

girls/women– 96% YES, 4 % NO– girls/women – age group: more 16-20 years old– boys/men – age group: more 18-24 years old– average is 16-20 years old, – youngest 12 y. oldest 28 y.

– work experience is almost 9 years/outreach worker– net of contacts: 15 organisations; – more than 1 activity/ 1 young person


Cross-sectoral Cooperation


The Social Empowerment ...The Multiprofessional Co-Operation

• rebuilding new system for municipalities: The Youht Act will get new sections

• cross-sectoral – multiprofessional • follow up of young people´s living condition; drop out´s ?, • local level: youth affairs, social- and health care,

education, employment administration, police, defensive forces ...

• supervisor is needed: exact task• the local politcal structure makes desicions of advanced

for public services


Development Projects


Developement projects

• Mostly financed with ESR subsidies• Most part of the actions presented here have they background in different

developement projects• Example of projects;

– The project Successful lessons (“Onnistuvat opit”) was an embedding project commissioned by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and financed by the European Social Fund that was realised by Social Development Co Ltd,

– A follow up project 2009-2011– MAST-project: Vocational schools, Upper Secondary Schools, Basic

Education, Youth Workshops and outreach youth work. Find good praxis and cooperation methodes between each actor in order to realise the target that 95 % get secondary education


Developement continues

– Different reports and discussions on how to got releveant information on marginalisation and marginalisations processes

– Stuides on different subsectors in the field of drop out from schools

Documents

YOUTH WORKSHOPS AND YOUTH POLICY IN FINLAND The Social Empowerment in Youth Work Erik Häggman State Provincial Office of Western Finland