the new vision and priorities of helsinki city youth department 10.3
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Competence of youth workers
• Capability to build a
trust-based
relationship with a
young person
• Capability to make a
group work well
• Audacity to defend
young people´s views
and rights
• Action-based work and
guidance
• Flexibility and audacity
to experiment
• Collaboration
Young people
enjoy their
neighbourhoods.
Helsinki consist
of different and
unequal realities.
Conciliatory
values and a
sense of
competition.
The entire Helsinki is a nice place for young people. Nice equals
having friends, things to do and being important to others. A young
Helsinkian is able to see the world from other people´s point of view.
New strategy defines the capabilities
every young person should have.
• Capability to form
friendships
• Capability to help others
and have an impact on
one´s environment
• Capability to experience
and create culture
• Capability for sports
• Capability to spend time in
spaces, which welcome
young people
• Capability to get help and
support
• Capability to learn and
strengthen one´s skills
Role of the youth department
• Knowledge on young people´s lives and
needs
• Building, supporting and guiding youth
groups; responsible roles for young
people
• Method for young people to influence
their neighbourhood
• Leisure and after school activities
• Targeted support
• Support and guidance regarding the
future
• Support for civil society
New strategy means
changes: - start from young people, not premises
- more responsibility for young people
(”producer roles”
- methods chosen based on and with
the community (participatory
budgeting)
- more community and outreach work
- youth clubs have a local and city-level
profile
- cultural work more in the suburbs and
with the arts institutions
- more resources to suburbs
- more joint premises with other
departments
- department heads have both a
regional and a thematic responsibility
Participatory budgeting of youth work and annually doing a community analysis by interviewing young people and adults.
Annual report on young people´s wellbeing combining statistics, expert views and young people´s views. (online)