Where to get help from?
ROVANIEMI
Easy access services
Ohjaamo’s services are meant for all people between the ages 15 to 29. Ohjaamo offers information, advice, and guidance for example employment, studying, living, finances, health, and everyday life.
Mentors help you to find solutions for your situation and guide you to your own path. You may visit Ohjaamo without appointment time or make an appointment through Ohjaamo’s channels. Guidance is being offered through distance methods also.
Services from Ohjaamo are confidential and free of charge.
Etsivä nuorisotyö (youth work) helps and guides in difficulties young adults may face in their lives. Such challenges may occur, for example, if one is left without a study place or work or when facing financial difficulties. Goals in youth work are being set by young adults themself and youth workers help them to achieve them. Guidance can be individual or in groups.
Youth work does not replace already existing services. Its purpose is to help find young adults needing such help. Youth workers can also assist one while transacting with authorities.
Services for youth work are optional and if wanted, anonymous.
Youth services is a unit of Rovaniemi City’s leisure services offering services for young adults and kids living in Rovaniemi. The purpose is to offer versatile leisure activities, hobbies, information, guidance, and support as well as to promote young adults’ participation and opportunities for making a change. Youth services are being divided into general youth services offered by concentrated youth work, targeted youth work offering individual support and regional youth work.
Tyttöjen talo offers activity evenings, events, different work groups, and gatherings of small groups. Tyttöjen talo is about doing together, happiness and experiences of success, recognizing one's own skills, learning new things, and sharing know-how.
Health care
Finnish Student Health Services organizes student’s health services for higher degree students.
MiePä-triage / Mielitiimi (mental health services) →
MiePä-triage offers psychiatric emergency services, assessment of need for treatment, guidance, and appointment booking services on phone.
Romppu offers services for people under the age of 25 regarding social work with substance abusers.
Emergency health care clinic →
Lapland Central Hospital Emergency Clinic offers treatment around the clock for patients who require immediate treatment for their physical or mental health.
Support for studies, everyday life and life skills
School social work and student counseling →
Student counselors offer discussion help for students for example in studies, wellbeing, getting by, motivation, and stress.
Roihula is an easy-to-access place for support regarding everyday life, employment, or studies.
NAL offers rental apartments and living guidance for people under the age of 29. You can get guidance even if you are not living in an apartment from NAL.
Nuotti-coaching is rehabilitation for people between ages 16 to 29, for example, when declining performance starts to affect studies.
Wellbeing and mental health operators and others associations
https://www.hdl.fi/vamos/kaupungit/vamos-rovaniemi/
https://www.kansalaistalorovaniemi.fi/vapaaehtoistyonkeskus-neuvokas/vapaaehtoistyonkeskus-neuvokas/
https://moninet.rovala.fi/moninet/
Finances
KELA helps with matters and questions regarding social benefits and gives guidance regarding for example rehabilitation.
Guidance services of social services →
Social services offer guidance and services in challenging life situations.
Church’s food aid helps people in difficult life situations to receive food by giving it out for free.
Kansalaistalo offers help to sort out difficult situations regarding finances with a support person.
Crisis situations
Lapin Ensi- ja Turvakoti and Kriisikeskus
https://ensijaturvakotienliitto.fi/lapinensijaturvakoti/ and https://ensijaturvakotienliitto.fi/lapinensijaturvakoti/palvelut/kriisit/kriisikeskus/
Turvakoti (Safe house) helps when a person encounters domestic violence. Kriisikeskus (Crisis center) offers discussion help in difficult life situations, for example, when facing a crisis.
Raiskauskriisikeskus Tukinainen →
Raiskauskriisikeskus (Sexual violence crisis center) offers support, help, and guidance for victims of sexual violence, their close relatives and friends, and people working with said victims.
Rikosuhripäivystys (Crime victim services) offer support services for victims of crimes and their close ones.
Career planning
Lapin TE-services and help finding your own career → (Choose English as your language)
Lapin TE-services offer different options to support career planning. Help with finding your own career is also offered.
Ohjaamo Rovaniemi offers guidance for people under the age of 30. See more at the beginning of the page in “ Rovaniemi - Easy access services”.
Osaamo offers guidance in employment and career planning for people over the age of 30.
Eduro offers guidance and assistance regarding employment, education, rehabilitation services, and easy-to-access workshop activities.
KEMI AND TORNIO
Support for studies, everyday life and life skills
School social work and student counseling →
Student counselors offer discussion help for students for example in studies, wellbeing, getting by, motivation, and stress.
Etsivä nuorisotyö (youth work) offers guidance and assistance for different life situations for people under the age of 29. Youth work offers early support for young adults in their lives with helping find different skills and methods for it. Etsivä nuorisotyö is voluntary.
Ohjaamo Kemi’s services are meant for people under the age of 30. Ohjaamo offers information, advice, and guidance for example in employment, studying, living, finances, health, career planning, and everyday life.
Ohjaamo for immigrants (also for international students) services can be found here →
Social welfare office in Kemi →
Social welfare office in Tornio →
Social services help with everyday life, social security, economy, mental health, substance abuse, and housing matters.
Nuotti-coaching is rehabilitation for people between ages 16 to 29, for example, when declining performance starts to affect studies.
Finances
KELA helps with matters and questions regarding social benefits and gives guidance regarding for example rehabilitation.
Economy and debt counseling and legal aid offices
Kemi-Tornio contact information →
About legal aid in English →
Legal aid offices offer economy and debt counseling. In some cases, legal aid can be provided with the costs covered by the government.
Church’s food aid in Kemi →
Church’s food aid in Tornio →
Church’s food aid helps people in difficult life situations to receive food by giving it out for free.
Career planning
Lapin TE-services and help with finding your own career → (Choose English as your language)
Lapin TE-services offer different options to support career planning. Help with finding your own career is also offered.
Ohjaamo for immigrants (also for international students) services can be found here →
Ohjaamo Kemi’s services are meant for people under the age of 30. See more at the middle of the page in “Kemi-Tornio - Support for studies, everyday life and life skills.”
Health care services
Finnish Student Health Services organizes student’s health services for higher degree students.
Communal health care services in Kemi and Tornio →
Mehiläinen Länsi-Pohja organizes health care services in Kemi-Tornio area.
Emergency health care clinic →
Emergency clinics offer treatment around the clock for patients who require immediate treatment for their physical or mental health.
Psychiatric policlinic in Kemi →
Psychiatric policlinic in Tornio →
Psychiatric policlinics help people suffering from mental health problems and A-clinic helps people suffering from substance abuse and other addictions.
Crisis situations
Kriisikeskus Turvapoiju (crisis center) offers discussion help regarding difficult life situations, for example, when facing a crisis. The center is located in Kemi.
Raiskauskriisikeskus Tukinainen →
Raiskauskriisikeskus (Sexual violence crisis center) offers support, help, and guidance for victims of sexual violence, their close relatives and friends, and people working with said victims.
Rikosuhripäivystys (Crime victim services) offer support services for victims of crimes and their close ones.