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Apotti

Towards a Truly Integrated Social Services and Health Care System

We at Apotti will adopt the world’s first information system that helps us

to integrate social and healthcare services.

For professionals it is a tool of the future for serving

clients and patients, for citizens it supports

self-care and betterlife management.

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One of Apotti’s main objectivesis to establish one

regionally integratedclient and patient

it-system

Patient = Client

one person, one record, one life

Challenges

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Challenge of Young Adults

Challenge of Child Welfare

Challenge of Students’ Career

Mentoring

Challenge of Kin Care

1. Challenge of Child Welfare

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According to the studies more than every 10th child has experienced violence and they have kept it a secret, and

even 6 % of mothers have told they have used severe violence during the last year.

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Tiina is 25 year old single mother. She has 1 and 3 year old lively sons. The father is not participating in their everyday life.

Tiina’s family and friends are living in Northern Finland and she doesn´t have any support in her neighborhood. Tiina’s financial situation is weak while she´s at home taking care of her two children. Tiina’s younger son has been quite ill and that´s why Tiina hasn´t slept that well.

Three years old big brother is in a worst negative age and Tiina has trouble to set him enough boundaries. Tiina has slapped big brother in his bottom a few times and pulled his hair hardly when she has tried to get him obey her.

Tiina is feeling herself tired and lonely. Tiina wish she could share her everyday challenges with someone, but the threshold to seek professional help is too high.

What kind of ”walk in” help could be found to single mother Tiina and her sons, and in what way, before problems escalate?

1. Challenge of Child Welfare

2. Challenge of Young Adults

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Many Finnish young adults are in danger of being in social exclusion and without any meaningful

activity. Unemployment, low incomes and lack of activity can in worst cases cause frustration and anger. In best case activity could unify Finns and

immigrants.

2. Challenge of Young Adults

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The challenge is to invent how to spread the best practices all over the country. Purpose is to build a structure that would make it easier for volunteers to participate, arrange activity, and reach young adults.

The idea is to build a structure which would offer flexible possibilities to explore and participate. The goal is to support Young Adults to activate and organize together meaningful activity. In action there is utilized both peer support and more experienced volunteers. The goal is to proceed encountering between different people.

How to advance Young Adults’ inexpensive hobby activities, peer support and encountering?

When the outbreak of refugees reached Finland, many Finns asked how can they help asylum seekers as volunteers.

Different municipalities organized collections of clothes, hobby activities and home accommodation. Some of volunteers were disappointed when it appeared that every asylum seekers centrum doesn´t utilize the support that the volunteers offered.

Flexible structures make possible to move between different parts. Young adult can start as a participant of activity and later to become organizer. It´s important to create structures which make it easier for example to finance and acquire suitable places, i.e. how to negotiate with municipalities how to book football arena.

3. Challenge of Students’ Career Mentoring

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Many students at different study levels worry about their future.

“Am I going to get employed to the job which reply to my education?Will my career be built by the chain of temporary works?”

3. Challenge of Students’ Career Mentoring

Many students wonder if they are studying the right field/subject. They might wonder if they can be employed after graduation or what the job possibilities are.

They can also wonder about their own well-being in work. Is the field too heavy? What kind of people have energy to do this kind of work?

The support which is offered varies in different schools. In practice, students can be left alone with this. This can lead to weakening of study motivation and can there fore interrupt their studies and resulting in having difficulties in finding their own place

The challenge is to develop a structure with which students could have support to their career thinking from an experienced mentor and/or from each other.

Mentoring is supposed to support students to resolve the situation in a way that he/she can find his own place in studying and work career.

Because the structure would be virtual, the mentor and the student can live in different areas in Finland. Mentoring could be only a single conversation. If agreed, it could be dated for a longer period.

4. Challenge of Kin Care

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”Skype-grandma”

How would it be possiple to supportKatri’s social life and prohibite her frombecoming a loner?

79 years old Katri, earlier very socially active lady, now having arthrosis in her knees which makes walking difficult. She takes care of her spouse Arvi, who has severe dementia.

Because of his disease, Arvi can´t be left home alone. If left alone he can disappear and get lost. Arvi´s behavior is unpredictable and he can´t participate in conversations anymore. That´s why Katri’s contacts outside their home have been narrowed only to weekly travels to local grocery.

Couple’s adult children live abroad. Connection to theirchildren happens via computer (Skype, Facebook), other socialcontacts are rare.