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Social rehabilitation
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Social rehabilitation is intended for you if you are an 18 to 65-year-old resident of the Western Uusimaa region and are looking for support for finding employment and ways to strengthen your mental and physical resources and expand your living environment. The aim of social rehabilitation is to strengthen your social functioning and support your participation.
In the service, you will work with your personal social instructor, with whom you will plan the rehabilitation based on your own goals. In addition to individual social work with a social instructor, you can participate in group activities organised as part of social rehabilitation. The social rehabilitation groups will give you the opportunity to strengthen your everyday skills and social skills and receive peer support and encouragement from other participants.
Social rehabilitation is a social service organised in accordance with the Social Welfare Act, and participation in it is voluntary and free of charge.
The service is suitable for different life situations, such as if you are unemployed and searching for a job, on rehabilitation subsidy or looking for a new direction in life. The key is your own desire to seek change and your ability to commit to regular activities outside your home.
You cannot participate in the service during an acute crisis.
Who is the service for?
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You cannot register for the social rehabilitation service directly. Instead, the decision to grant the service is based on a service needs assessment carried out with you by a social services professional. The service needs assessment is carried out in Services Supporting Employment: Services Supporting Employment | Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County.external link, opens in a new tab
If you are not yet a client of Services Supporting Employment and are interested in social rehabilitation, you can contact the guidance and appointment booking service of social services for adults: Social services for adults | Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County.external link, opens in a new tab
You can also, either on your own or together with your assigned specialist, submit a contact request to assess your service needs here: Notification of concern | Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County.external link, opens in a new tab
Conditions for participation:
- The important thing with regard to your participation is your own wish to undergo rehabilitation and your ability to commit to regular meetings.
- We will agree on the meeting schedule with you at the start of your social rehabilitation. You will meet with the social instructor up to once a week.
- You must inform your personal social rehabilitation social instructor if you are unable to come to a meeting.
Further information about the service: Social rehabilitation | Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County.external link, opens in a new tab
Social media channels of social rehabilitation services:
LUVN sosiaalinen kuntoutus ja Espoon työpajatoiminta | Facebookexternal link, opens in a new tab
Benefits of participating in the service
- The social instructor will support you in your efforts to reach your personal rehabilitation goal.
- You will be able to strengthen your participation, social functioning, and mental and physical resources.
- You will receive information on different services and rehabilitation opportunities.
- Through group activities, you will be able to strengthen your social skills and networking and receive support and encouragement from others.
- You will identify suitable further paths for yourself together with your social instructor.
Conditions for participating in the service
Our service is targeted at 18–65-year-old residents of Western Uusimaa who have been identified as needing social rehabilitation as a result of a service needs assessment.
You cannot register for the social rehabilitation service directly. Instead, the decision to grant the service is based on a service needs assessment carried out with you by a social services professional at Services Supporting Employment, which are part of social services for adults.
The social rehabilitation service is suitable for various life situations. For example, you can participate in the service if you are an unemployed jobseeker, on rehabilitation subsidy or on sick leave. You are required to have a sufficient level of Finnish or Swedish proficiency to participate in the service, as we provide the social rehabilitation service in Finnish and Swedish.
Participation also requires you to have the desire to improve your condition and seek change.
The social rehabilitation service is voluntary, and we must always establish the client’s own desire and ability to participate in the rehabilitation through a service needs assessment. The service can only be granted based on a service needs assessment carried out with the client by a social services professional.
How can I participate in the service?
Our social rehabilitation team operates throughout the entire Western Uusimaa region.
The core elements of the social rehabilitation team’s work with clients are enhanced individual social work and group activities.
In the social rehabilitation service, you will work with your personal social rehabilitation social instructor, who will start the work with you with individual social work meetings. During the initial social rehabilitation period (approximately three months), these meetings will take place once a week. In addition to individual social work, you can participate in a wide range of group activities during the social rehabilitation. You will receive further information about the group activities at the start of the social rehabilitation. The duration of the rehabilitation depends on your situation, but the maximum duration is 18 months. Your designated worker at Services Supporting Employment will coordinate your service package. You will meet with your designated worker regularly together with the social rehabilitation social instructor through common networks.
We will provide the social rehabilitation in the form of face-to-face meetings. The groups also offer remote groups as an option.
The aim of our service is to strengthen your social functioning, mental and physical resources and participation by working with you alone and through group activities. During the rehabilitation, you will get to work on your goals at your own pace, receive information about different rehabilitation options, and consider with your social instructor what would be the right path for you going forward.
Client meetings with the social instructor will be held up to once a week, usually at the beginning of the service, and they will become less frequent as your rehabilitation progresses. The social rehabilitation groups will also meet once a week.
Our service is free of charge and voluntary. The important thing is that you have the desire to improve your condition and the ability to commit to systematic work.
In social rehabilitation, we do not provide support at your home; instead, our service seeks to bring you out of your home.