Valo-Valmennusyhdistys is a national association improving access to learning, employment, wellbeing and participation in the society.
Our mission is to support, guide and train some of the most vulnerable members of the society to reach good, ordinary life, where their goals in areas of health and wellbeing, employment, housing and family/friends have been achieved.
We continuously evaluate and develop our practices, using applied research as a basis. We develop and distribute new ways of working that support people in vulnerable groups.
Valo-Valmennusyhdistys currently works in Tampere, Sastamala, Turku, Rauma, Pori and Helsinki.
Silta is a non-profit association established in 2001 by non-governmental organisations in Tampere. Our main goal is to increase societal equality, individual participation and welfare by coaching hard-to-employ people in improving their ability to work and to function, and to find their place in society.
The core values that guide all of our operations are:
Osviitta is a place where anyone in need of support can come. We have trained volunteers and staff who will listen to you and support you with difficult situations in life, for example:
EHYT Finnish Association for Substance Abuse Prevention works throughout Finland to promote healthy lifestyles. We work with people of all ages from children and young people to working age people and the elderly. In addition to alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse prevention, our remit also encompasses gaming and gambling. Our aim is to improve well-being across Finnish society.
FinFami is an association that offers counselling and support to anyone affected by mental illness or concerned about a friend or family member’s mental health.
The Finnish Sustainable Growth Programme – Urgent care in Pirkanmaa with new operating models (Hoppu) project is based on the well-being area strategy and its implementation programme approved at the end of 2022, which guide the content of all development projects in the well-being area. Hoppu is closely linked to other separately funded projects in the area without overlapping.
The target group of the project is people whose physical and psychosocial well-being has deteriorated due to changes in everyday life and the limitation of encounters and exercise due to the pandemic. The project will strengthen and introduce low-threshold services and digital services more widely than before, and develop service paths and entities towards regional social and health care service production.
Kukunori is a non-profit and non-governmental organization dedicated to fostering and uniting people and ideas to drive positive change. As an innovative community our mission is to develop, test and accelerate solutions that enhance human wellbeing in societies worldwide.
Kukunori establishes contacts between different stakeholders with a view to exploring synergies between them, thus nurturing cooperation, interdisciplinarity and innovation in solving societal problems through an approach based on the promotion of human and civil rights.
Maria Akatemia is a non-profit organisation in Finland. Maria Akatemia is independent of any political or religious ideologies.
The vision of Maria Akatemia is to promote the wellbeing and inner growth of individuals and communities, for this further supports sustainable intercultural interaction at national and global levels. Its operations and research areas include gender specificity, violence prevention, work community wellbeing and ethical leadership.
Maria Akatemia is specialised in the recognition and treatment of women’s inner ill-being and violence and have since 2003 had a programme for prevention of violence by women.
Maria Akatemia provides seminars, workshops and lectures tailor made according to the needs of our clients. All Maria Akatemia’s services and products are based on a psychodynamic conception of the human.
MIELI Mental Health Finland is a mental health organisation whose mission is to promote mental health, provide crisis support and prevent mental health issues. We want to build a society in which people can talk about mental health safely and without stigma.
MIELI is the world’s oldest non-governmental organisation dedicated to mental health and has helped people living in Finland through their life crises for over 120 years. We operate at a national level through 54 local member associations. Our operations are run by almost 150 professionals and over 3,000 volunteers.
The Miina Sillanpää Foundation is a bold, new creative developer and social debater.
The Foundation supports and implements research, development and innovation activities and learning (TKIO) for older people. We also do public health work.
The Foundation’s operations are of general interest and aim to achieve social impact. We want to build society and conditions where we all have a chance to age better.
Maternity and child health services are offered for all pregnant parents, families that are expecting a baby and children before school age and their parents.
The functions of the maternity and child health clinics are based on Health Care Act and the Decree of Government on maternity and child health clinics, school and student health care services and preventive oral health care services.
Sinuiksi ry is a regional non-governmental association advocating for equal human rights regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. It was founded in 1973. Sinuiksi ry is the oldest and largest member organisations of the national organisation Seta. Seta – LGBTIQA* Rights in Finland – aims for a society of equality and individual welfare that includes everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
The association also runs a national helpline to deal with sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
The Psychiatric Hospital for Prisoners is an acute hospital providing nationwide services for prisoners. The care periods at the hospital vary from a few days to a few weeks or months. The hospital’s Turku unit has operated since 1911 and is the only prison health care unit open year-round 24 hours a day. The Turku unit has 40 and the Vantaa unit 14 patient beds. The physicians of the Psychiatric Hospital for Prisoners also provide outpatient services to local prisons. The hospital has six physicians and three psychologists. The personnel also includes special employees, nurses and assisting staff. In addition to periods of care, the hospital also provides examination periods for advanced ADHD diagnostics, mental examinations, statutory danger assessments and violence risk assessments, initiation of opioid replacement therapy, and assessment periods for the statutory medical treatment of sex offenders. The Psychiatric Hospital for Prisoners also carries out research and development work.
Family corner Puhuri provides help and support to both parents regardless of the relationship they have had with the violence they have committed. The aim of working is to support parents in their own parenting and to help create alternative operating models instead of violent activity. Parents are helped to become more aware of the impact of domestic violence on child growth and development, and their ability to protect the child from the harmful effects of violence is increased. In addition, the work supports the review of violent experiences.
The Finnish non-profit organisation Surunauha ry (Eng. ”Grief Ribbon”) was founded in 1997. Our mission is to support those who have lost loved ones to suicide. We also want to promote open discussion about the matter to reduce prejudice and stigma related to suicide.
Our activities are based on volunteer peer support. We offer support groups across the country. The groups provide a safe and confidential environment to meet others facing the same situation. The group leaders are also peers who have lost loved ones to suicide. We regularly train our supporting volunteers and provide them with work counselling.
Y-Säätiö was set up in December 1985 to tackle a severe housing shortage. There was an acute shortage of small flats in particular. The basic mission of Y-Säätiö was to provide rental housing from the existing housing stock for people living alone and experiencing homelessness. Today, the letter Y is thought to mean together. It means Y-Säätiö’s way of working on homelessness in broad cooperation with different actors in Finland and internationally.
Youth Mental Health Association – Yeesi was founded in 2011 by young people themselves. The organisation is Finland’s first national Mental Health Association for young people. Members of the organisation have an opportunity to enhance mental well-being of their generation. Our important values are giving from young people to young people, ”low step” (easy to access for everyone) and flexibility, positivity, development and positive attitude towards change.
We feel that mental health is a life skill resource and an asset. Small choices and decisions we make in our everyday lives have an impact on our well-being. Things that give you joy and strenght will enhance well-being and bring confidence to your own skills. Feelings of accomplishment strenghtens one's self-esteem. Meeting with other people, sharing your thoughts and feelings, creativity and general inner happiness all have an effect on how you feel daily. It’s good to remember to give yourself time to relax, chill out and just be.
Our action is based on positivity, teamwork and giving from young people to young people. Yeesi organises various activities which leave you with a positive view on life, such as volunteer work, different vocation and places for youngsters to hang out.
The aim of our organisation is to increase awareness amongst youth of the importance of taking care of your own mental well-being. We want to give opportunities for any 13–29 year olds to enhance and learn how to cherish your own mental well-being and to helps others look after theirs. With Yeesi, young people can make their ideas into reality with encouraging atmosphere.
