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The Youth report and youth participation models in Helsinki - tools for building up a better youth policy Stina Hgnabba & Pirjo Mattila Europe@DJHT 2017 28.3.2016 The presentation 2 The youth report in Helsinki Involving youth in

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The Youth report and youth participation models in Helsinki

  • tools for building up a better youth policy

Stina Högnabba & Pirjo Mattila Europe@DJHT 2017 28.3.2016

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The presentation

The youth report in Helsinki

Involving youth in the information production Knowledgebased management and the use of multi- source information to improwe young peoples´s wellbeing

Youth participation models in Helsinki

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Culture sub- commit- tee Sports sub- commit- tee

Boards:

  • Service Centre municipal enterprise
  • Financial Management Services

municipal enterprise

  • Occupational Health Centre municipal

enterprise

City Council

Audit Committee

  • Education
  • Basic education
  • General upper

secondary and vocational education

  • Services in Swedish
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Youth
  • Family and social

services

  • Health and substance

abuse services

  • Hospital, rehabilitation

and care services

  • Land use and city

structure

  • Buildings and public

areas

  • Services and permits

Rescue committee Board of the City Transport municipal enterprise

Central Administration

City Board

Economic Development Sub-committee City Group Sub-committee

The city organisation 1.6.2017

Social services and health care committee City environment committee

Finnish sub- committee Swedish sub- committee

Education committee

Environment and permits sub- committee

Culture and leisure committee

Sub-committee Youth sub- commit- tee Buildings and public works sub- committee

Education City environment Culture and leisure Social services and health care

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Our vision for good youth policy

A comprehensive model looking at all services, has genuine participation of young people and clear metrics for performance

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Goals for Youth Policy and youth work in Helsinki

  • 1. Universal services for all young people:

the entire city is a nice place for young people.

  • 2. Young people have influence on their
  • neighbourhoods. Instead of a youth council´s

the goal is that every teenager has a democratic experience through participatory budgeting and activist groups.

  • 3. Every child has a hobby.
  • 4. Tackling inequalities between individuals

and neighbourhoods. More work with those individuals and neighbourhoods, which need more.

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The Youth report in Helsinki

www.nuortenhyvinvointikertomus.fi

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Why do we need a youth report?

 For the purpose of developing relevant public services and of giving policy- makers the information they need, the Finnish Youth Act (7 a§) mentions an

  • bligation for municipalities to produce knowledge about various aspects of

wellbeing among young people.  For developing good participation models we need knowledge about and from young people  The work is guided by a network with central stakeholders of youth policy and youth work in Helsinki, the chair is the assistant city manager. The members are leaders of different city departments, the police, young peoples representants and voluntary organizations.

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What is the youth report?

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 Website www.nuortenhyvinvointikertomus.fi with a connecting database www.hyvinvointitilastot.fi  A workbook for collecting experience-based data from youth groups www.nuortenkokemustieto.munstadi.fi/materiaalit/  The work follows an open data principle, meaning that the database behind the website can be accessed by anyone and it is updated constantly

 The knowledge used and combined:  Statistics / indicators  Research  Experience knowledge of young people  Experience knowledge from workers 8

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The Capability approach as a way of thinking about knowledge production

EU Youth monitor

  • Education and

training

  • Employment and

entrepreneurship

  • Health and

wellbeing

  • Social inclusion
  • Culture and

creativity

  • Youth participation
  • Voluntary activities
  • Youth & the world

The Helsinki Capability approach

  • Life and health
  • Self development
  • Managing the

future

  • Security
  • Emotions and

interaction

  • Active citizenship
  • Equality
  • Nature and

sustainability Martha Nussbaum´s Capability approach

  • Life
  • Bodily health
  • Senses,

imagination and thought

  • Emotions
  • Practical reason
  • Affiliation
  • Other species
  • Play
  • Control over one´s

environment

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Example: Emotions and Interaction

 Young people are capable of empathy, love, sorrow, longing, happiness, hatred and fury. They are able to express and process emotions, and they receive support if needed. Young people understand the significance of feelings in social intercourse and society. Their social identity and self-image are strengthened, their feelings of loneliness decreases, and their relationship to their parents works.

http://www.nuortenhyvinvointikertomus.fi/briefly-english

Indicators:

  • Family status
  • Youth living with a single parent
  • Youth living alternatively with parents
  • Child protection
  • Relationships to parents
  • Friends
  • Togetherness in school
  • Affinity to peer groups

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Experience knowledge from experts – blogs and workshops

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Young peoples own experiences – an important part of the Web page

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The process of using information

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The yearly research summarys

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The youth welfare report 2016 is also in english http://www.nuortenhyvinvointikertomus.fi/sites/ default/files/files/page/youthwelfarereportinhe lsinki.pdf

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The information leeds to action proposals for developing youth services and better youth policy

Based on the different knowledge on the website the chosen main topics for 2016-2018 are: Improving interaction between young people and professionals Racism and attitudes Young people´s independence (education, work, housing) At the moment plans for these topics are under construction.

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Youth participation models

http://ruuti.munstadi.fi/en/

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”Traditional” youth participation in Finland

  • Youth councils in municipalities
  • Often elected among young people that are already active
  • Youth councils directly represent the youth in that municipality

+ Easier to understand and adopt for decision-makers + Easier for youth workers to maintain

  • Narrower scope of positive experiences for fewer young people
  • Tends to favor already active young people and discourage immigrants etc.

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Structures to co-create Helsinki together with young people ”Ruuti”

Support Activism

  • Young peoples’ direct initiatives

via www.ruuti.net

  • Providing support & services for all

active youth groups to bring their ideas and voice into local decision making

Participatory budgeting and deliberative negoatiation

  • Annual participative budget cycle

shifts local decision making power towards youth

  • Ruutimoney in schools
  • Influence inside schools

Representative action

  • Core group
  • Schools student board

Happenings

  • Annual City Hall Gathering / Event

“Ruutiexpo”

  • Annual meeting with the decision

makers “Päättäjämiitti”

  • Annual school student board

meetings to discuss and improve school life

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Decision-makers meeting – ”Päättäjämiitti”

 Over 80 young people and ~40 municipal representatives and officials / workers (2016)  Themes discussed are chosen by young people, discussions are on their terms  Officials put forward discussed action plans in their own name – not as an organisation  Examples: gender-neutral school sports activities, better biking in Helsinki, more trashcans, outlets in public transportation, better e-learning platforms for schools  All action plans can be followed online

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RuutiExpo – the bigest event of the year at the City Hall

  • Aims to showcase different avenues of

participation via municipal offices (Youth work, libraries, office of sports etc.), NGOs and other

  • rganisations
  • ~3000 young people and ~60 different offices /
  • rganisations (2015)
  • Also a venue for direct participation
  • Challenge: How to ”package” the event so

teachers can incorporate the event in their classes? How to layout the fragmented program so visitors can find things most relevant for them?

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The board of youth affairs annually holds an

  • pen board meeting in RuutiExpo.

The meeting is streamed live and topics can be discussed online.

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Ruuti tiExpo Expo 2015: The wall of

  • f dreams

ams Young people attending the event had a chance to write on a huge blackboard their hopes and dreams for the future. As with other forms of participation, this again showed that young people in Helsinki have a profound sense of social justice; many themes revolved around equality, acceptance, ending racism, equal opportunities for everyone etc.

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What is the core group?

  • Consists of 20 annually elected

young people

  • Their task is to work together with the

youth department to ensure that Ruuti works properly

  • The group also has multiple agendas
  • n what they want to improve in

Helsinki

  • The group agrees on their own
  • perating culture and rules
  • Frequent meetings with the director
  • f youth services, politicians, city

councilmen etc.

  • A high emphasis on learning within

the group; it is up to the youth worker to ensure that every member can fuction in the group

Ruuti core group for 2016

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IN 2016 OVER 12 000 YOUNG PEOPLE PARTICIPATED IN THE PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING PROCESS IN HELSINKI

Safer and nicer public spaces, parks for all Affordable hobbies, useful courses and training for job seeking

Information on youth houses for all young people, longer

  • pening hours on weekends

Accessible public places for all (people

with disabilities)

Airsoft equipments & gaming possibilites

Ice hockey World Cup screenings in the local culture center Multicultural festivals in the local culture center

Better sport facilities, articial turf Cheaper bus tickets! Later school mornings on mondays! Breakfast and snacks to school & better school food

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Challenges in the Ruuti-participation model

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How to document participation activities that have been done How to gain more candidates / voters in the core group election How to lower the treshold of participation How to strengthen dialogue between officials and young people in general

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Ruuti core group achievment; Summer job voucher for all 15-year olds in Helsinki

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Thank you!

Contact information: Pirjo Mattila, planner, City of Helsinki, Youth department pirjo.mattila@hel.fi Stina Högnabba, senior researcher, City of Helsinki, Urban Facts, research department stina.hognabba@hel.fi

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