Social- og Indenrigsudvalget 2019-20
SOU Alm.del Bilag 202
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How homelessness has
been reduced in Vantaa
Anna Cantell-Forsbom, Acting Deputy Mayor, March 2, 2020
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HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE DEPARTMENT
Health and Social Welfare Committee
Group
Section
Health and Social Welfare Department
Specialized
Care
Acting Deputy Mayor
Anna Cantell-Forsbom
Board of Directors
Financial and
Administrative Services
service area
Financial and
Acting Administrative
Director
Hanna Heinikainen
Acting Family Services
service area
Acting Family Services
Director
Mirja Varis
Services for the Elderly and
the Disabled
service area
Services for the Elderly
and
the Disabled
Director
Minna
Lahnalampi-Lahtinen
Health Services
service area
Health Services
Director
Piia Vuorela
Oral
Health
Corporation
Director
Helena
Salusjärvi-Juopperi
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Family Services service area
Acting Family Services Director
Mirja Varis
Acting Senior Specialist Leena Marila-Penttinen
Specialist Hanna Nummelin-Niemi
Designer Leena Kaijala
Administrative Secretary Sari Anttila
Coordinator for Swedish-language Services
Anna Cantell-Fors
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Social Services for Adults and
Families
Service Manager
Virve Flinkkilä
Services for New Customers
- Assessing the need for services for
adults (social work and counseling)
- Assessing the need for services for
families with children (east and
west)
Planned social work for adults and
families
- Social work for the young
- Social work for families and
networking coordination
- Planned social work (east and west)
Supplementary Social Assistance
- Social lending
Mediation
Housing Services
- Social housing guidance
- Housing support for psychiatric
convalescents and the homeless
- Housing units for psychiatric
convalescents
- Koisoranta Service Center
- Supported housing and work
activities
- Pähkinärinne housing service unit
Child Protection
Service Manager
Hanna Pösö
Social Work for Child Protection
Outpatient Services
- East Vantaa
- West Vantaa and on-call service
during office hours
Foster Care’s Social Work
Child Protection Support Services
Kuusela Family Rehabilitation
Center
Reception Activities Unit
Rehabilitative Foster Care Unit
Psychosocial Services
Service Manager
Mirja Varis
Early Support for Families with
Children
- Home service for families with
children
- Family work as stipulated in the
Social Welfare Act
- Support Person and Support
Family Activities
- Social work
Family Counseling Clinics
- East Vantaa Family Counseling
Clinic
- West Vantaa Family Counseling
Clinic
- Family counseling clinic's
enhanced support
- Family coaches
Family Law Unit
Medical services
Psychological Services
Psychosocial Services for the Young
Social Emergency and Crisis Center
Immigrant Services
Service Manager
Hilkka Linderborg
- Initial assessments
- Refugee reception services
- Integration-supporting services
- Uusiniittytie supported housing
unit
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Vantaa has participated in national
programs on reducing homelessness
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A long-term homeless person refers to a person whose homelessness has
lengthened or is at risk of lengthening for more than a year due to social or
health reasons, or a person who has been repeatedly homeless for the past three
years.
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Finland has strived to reduce homelessness with the help of national programs
with the following focuses:
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Abandoning homeless shelters
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Housing first
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Support take to the usto er’s ho e
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Preventive work
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Service innovations have been studied on university level
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Paavo programs reduced long-term
homelessness
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Building walls and developing methods that have been standardized as part of basic services
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Paavo 1 2008-2011
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Viidakkokuja housing unit for mental health convalescents: 22 places
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Tähkä housing unit: communal substance-free housing: 15 places
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Simonpirtti 24 places
Social guidance preventing evictions 2009
Social work for homeless people released from prison 2009
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Paavo 2 2012-2015
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Osmankäämintie for the long-term unemployed: 52 housing units
Pähkinärinne: housing first principle: 33 housing units
Näätäkuja: 32 housing units
Pyykuja: 20 housing units
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Koisoniitty project: supported housing and small red cabins (going on)
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Aku-project focused
on prevention and
social inclusion
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Focus on preventing
homelessness
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Developing and bolstering work
methods
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Peer-expert work
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Preventive work
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Recovery orientation
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Government program entries
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Halving homelessness
during the electoral term and eliminating homelessness in two
electoral terms, that is,
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by 2027. Holding onto the well-functioning Housing First principle.
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Launching a cooperation program
with essential cities, service providers and
organizations to halve homelessness by 2023 and eliminating it by 2027. Adding the
goal of eli i ati g ho eless ess as part of the state’s a d large ities’ MAL
agreements.
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To improve accessibility of housing counseling, it will be statutory
and given the
required resources. Ensuring sufficient housing counseling together with municipalities.
Housing guidance must be available regardless of the form of housing.
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Developing homelessness statistics.
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-> Starting a development project to improve acquisition of information on
homelessness.
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Housing first model
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Pähkinärinne housing unit: 33 housing units
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Sahapuisto purchased service: 52 housing units
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Customers do not have to be substance free or committed to a specific
treatment: housing is a human right
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Acquisition of housing supports other aspects of living
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Challenges consist of giving up a controlling and restrictive work approach
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Has provided many with a home
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Requires sufficient resources also at night, customers need to have sufficient
functional abilities, customer segmentation, accounting for customer safety
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More of this kind of housing is required
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Since 2019, substance abusers have been provided with enhanced service
housing
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Work on preventing
evictions
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As early help as possible
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Housing guidance
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Planned local work
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Financial issues and
reside ts’ skills
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Social work
for the homeless
released from prison
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Work pair consisting of a social
worker and a social advisor
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Knowing the customers well and
having time to work with them
intensively
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Customership begins 2-6 months
before release
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Learning the skills needed in
freedom together
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Finding a permanent
housing solution
is challenging
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Temporary leases and housing
support constitute one way to
reduce homelessness
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City-owned rental housing has
long queues
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Unpaid rents and other debts
may make acquisition of any
rental housing more difficult
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Homelessness figures
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Housing services in social services for adults
and families
Supported housing for psychiatric
convalescents
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Social work and service guidance
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Supported housing in own housing
units (2)
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Purchased services (?)
•Enhanced
service housing (?)
•Service
housing (?)
•Supported
housing
Services for the homeless
•Social
work for the homeless
•Emergency
duty
•Supported
housing (?)
•Accommodation
first housing unit (1)
•Evaluative
housing unit (1)
•Housing
units (5) for the homeless
(some substance-free)
•Decentralized
accommodation
(approx. 60 units)
•Purchased
supported housing
•Accommodation
first principle
•Substance-free
community-form
•Decentralized
housing units
•Enhanced
housing for substance
abusers
Preventive social
housing guidance
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Peer expert’s role in health and
social welfare services
Customer or
patient
Professional
Peer expert
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What to do next
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Submitting a project application for the homelessness
prevention program 2021
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Convalescent-oriented work
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Customer segmentation
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Improving customer flow with the help of LEAN work
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Continuing preventing work
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Cooperating with Kela (the Social Insurance Institution of
Finland)
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Thank you