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Who we are and what we do?

Socca

SoccaThe Centre of Excellence

on Social Welfare in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area

2015

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Socca - The Centre of Excellence on

Social Welfare in the Helsinki

Metropolitan Area

• Network organization:

a meeting point for

professionals, service

users, researchers and

students

• Close co-operation with the

cities and educational

institutes in the

Metropolitan area

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Background

One of the 11 Centres of Excellence on Social

Welfare in Finland

Founded in 2002

Our operation is based on the law and a

co-operation agreement done in the

Metropolitan area

A part of HUS – The Hospital District of

Helsinki and Uusimaa since year 2014

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The Network of Centres of

Excellence on Social Welfare

• 11 Centres of Excellence on Social

Welfare, the network covers whole Finland

• Each centre is expert of local needs,

networks and development in the social

sector

• The common network is a strong actor in

national level

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About the metropolitan area

• Cities of Helsinki (the

capital), Espoo, Vantaa

and Kauniainen

• ~ 1,400,000 inhabitants,

26 % of Finland’s

population

• Fastest growing urban

centre

• Unique development

needs e. g. high number

of homeless people and

immigrants, polarization.

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What we do?

Develop social welfare services in the Metropolitan

area (common interests of cities, focus on urban

problems)

Produce information about social welfare services

and conduct research which benefits practical

work

Influence on the development of

social welfare sector in Metropolitan

area and nationally (e.g. legislation)

Distribute information and knowledge

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We want Socca to be a place,

• Which offers permanet networks for development

instead of short projects

• Where we learn from practice and share practical

solutions

• Where we seek solutions to the most difficult social

problems in urban area

• Where we experiment new ways to develop social

services with service users

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Examples of networks

Professionals

who develop

services

Students

learning

practiceResearch day-

care centres

International

contacts

Contacts with

the other

parts of

Finland

Also goups of

service users

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Indicators

Budget 20150,9 M€

State funding 50%

Funding from cities 25%

Project funding 25%

Activites in year 2014with 8 employers and 0,5 M € funding

• Three permanet developing networks

• About 100 events and 4 000 participants

• 180 students learning practice in work places in guidance

of 65 trained practice teachers

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The Cities of the Metropolitan area

• Practical workers• Developers

• Leaders

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Our partners

The University of Helsinki

• Discipline of Social Work• Department of Teacher Education

Universities of AppliedSciences• Metropolia

• Laurea• Diak

Non-governmentalorganizations

Other Centres of Excellence on Social

Welfare

National actorson social welfare

The new one: Centre for General Practice,

HUS

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Current development themes

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SoccaThe Centre of Excellence

on Social Welfare in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area

2015

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The main development

themes are…

Child welfare

Elderly Care

Early childhood

education

Social work with

adults

Gambling problems

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Praksis

Developing, researching and teaching

social work

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Praksis

Includes practice teaching periods in social work

and developing processes in work units

Topics include both child welfare and social work

with adults

Helsinki, Espoo, Kauniainen and Vantaa +

University of Helsinki

A shared topic for Praksis 2013-2015

Preventing intergenerational social

exclusion

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GeroMetro

The Network of elderly care

services in the Metropolitan

area

Training, development and reserarch

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GeroMetro

The shared development theme in 2014-2015

Supporting people who suffer from

memory loss – helping them to live at

home as long as possible

Founded in 2014 from the inspiration of similar

network in the early childhood education.

Partners are cities of Espoo, Helsinki, Kauniainen and

Vantaa + educational institutes

Developing, remodelling and researching elderly

care services through the work of 18 customer

work development units

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More information: www.peliklinikka.fi

Gambling Clinic helps problem gamblers, concerned

others and professionals.

Gambling Clinic offers outpatient treatment, peer

groups and support centre, gambling helpline

and online help.

A unique experimental project combines the services of cities

and non-governmental organizations.

Gambling Clinic in the

Helsinki Metropolitan Area

Also research of gambling and of services offered to gamblers

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The Future

• Closer cooperation with health care services

• Starting with areas concerning common needs of service

users e.g. elderly care or substance abuse problem

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More information

www.socca.fi/english

Praksis

blogs.helsinki.fi/heikkiwaris/what-is-it/

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Contacts

www.socca.fi/english

Includes abstracts, presentations and articles

P.O.Box 442

00029 HUS

Finland

socca(at)hus.fi

Director

Pirjo Marjamäki

+358 40 334 6401

pirjo.marjamaki(at)hus.fi