Integration Compass - A Tool for Guidance and Counseling Anne Alitolppa-Niitamo (manager in multicultural affairs, PhD & MA)

Centre for Multicultural Expertise Unit in The Family Federation of Finland (NGO) Focuses in the family perspective in the integration process Individual in the context of his/her family Parenting, wellbeing of children and youth Target groups: Professionals (teachers in schools and daycare centers, professionals in social and health sector etc.) > fight against structural discrimination Migrant families > information on the realities and needs of families with a migration background Training, production of materials and good practices

Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration 2010 8 § Guidance and counseling ’Municipality, employment office and other civil servants have to give appropriate guidance and counseling for immigrants about services that promote integration and about labour market’

Guidance and counseling Centralized service Information centers in the some cities Small towns and municipalities? De-centralized services

De-centralized: Principle of mainstreaming Services of a welfare society are a resource in the integration of new- comers Do servce providers, teachers, social workers, day care professionals etc., understand and assume their role? Do they have knowledge and means to take their role? Esityksen tekijä

Act on the Promotion of Immigrant Integration 2010 16 § Integration plan for a family ’Municipality crafts an integration plan for a family if the overall situation of a family reguires that. In the consideration of a need for such a plan one should particularly pay attention to the premises of parenthood in supporting and guiding the development of a child and an adolescent and to the needs of parents for support and training. The integration plan for a family will be designed in a cooperation with many actors and will be matched with individual integration plans of individual family members and with other plans designed for individual family members.’

Integration Compass: A Tool for family centered guidance and counselling Pays attention to a family composition and the life situation and needs of individual family members Inclusion of all family members figts against dissonat acculturation processes within a family Lists service providers and actors that may be helpful in supporting the integration and wellbeing of individual family members Services & access to social networks

Kiitos! Anne Alitolppa-Niitamo + 358 50 301 3015 anne.alitolppa-niitamo@vaestoliitto.fi