1. Youth Support Project, ESF conference Vilnius November 14. 2013
Open College and Guidance Center are the activities of Youth Support Project ( ) administrated by the North Karelia Municipal Education and Training Consortium.
Project`s target group:
15-24-year old unemployed North Karelians
Funding:
Guidance Center 2,2 milj. €
Open College
1,9 milj. €
The project is funded by the European Social Fund (ESF).

2. Youth Support`s goals:
to offer possibilities to VET or work experience and gain every day life skills
to develop the functions of guidance and conselling e.g. dialogical counselling as well as Open Vocational College
to avoid marginalization and social exlusion of young people
Actions:
North Karelia Municipal Education and Training Consortium: Counselling and Guidance center and Open College
Joensuu City, Youth workshop: Starttiverstas (low level individual coaching)

3. Corner stones:
Counselling and Guidance Center (CGC)
Starting point survey, sector guidance, recognition and clarification of individual obstacles
Valuntary confidential counselling
Career counselling and supported transfers to education (transitions)
Expertise on counselling, knowledge of the educational structure and qualifications, and methodical know-how
Networks and partnerships
Flexible transition to open college or other services
Open College
Individual, functional and alternative studies, learning by doing, individual length and content (also short-term study periods)
Implementation as labour political education
Permanent co-operation between Open College and CGC helps to make realistic plans for the future (PSP)
Non-stop student intake
Studies are identificated in future studies in VET or adult education
personal guidance and support is offered constantly with CGC
Community based work orientation → active participation of the young
Shared responsibility→ diverse knowledge, better coping at work

4. Joint application system
Counselling Center
Supporting the young to active participation
Open college and counselling centers process chart
Non-stop flexible and supported counselling
Becoming acquinted with the services
Counselling side by side Evaluating and developing of the project
Joint application system
Starting point survey
Guidance to other services
Instructional services/ sender
The upper secondary schools (VET/High school)
Non-stop flexible and supported counselling
Aim setting
Apprenticeship training
Salary supported workplace
Employment and economic development offices
Labour market training
Strenghtening the life situation and social network
work experiments
Non-stop flexible and supported counselling
Workshops, out-reached youth work
Supported transfer
Professional aim setting
Non-stop flexible and supported counselling
Improving studying and working skills
Starting VET studies
Improving life managment skills
Finishing VET studies
Self-guided, friends, family
Open college
Social office, youth work
Transition to education
Health services
Dialogical, activating and counselling side by side
Criminal sanctions agency

5. COUNSELLING CENTER Evaluating and developing
Dialogical, activating and counselling side by side
Becoming acquainted to the services
Service and sector guidance and
Co-operation with network operators
Starting point survey
confidential guidance relationship
Validation of customers life situation
Student counselling methods
Individual coaching
Aim setting
Short- and long-term aim setting and evaluation during the guidance
Methods i.a. target form (Goaling)
Strenghtening the life situation and social network
Supporting the strenghts and skills
Social network survey
Situation and skill training
Increasing the self-observation
Small group activities
Methods: strengh cards, screening important things in life
Professional aim setting
Improving studying and working skills
Previous work experiments
Methods i.a. career cards, school and workplace visits, web-sites
Transition to education
Co-operation with schools
Other co-operation partners
Communication with student and networks
Monitoring and support
Guidance to other services, network co-operation
Training and work experiment, practical training
Encouraging and empowerment
Online guidance (Facebook )
Necessary while guidance
Evaluating and developing

6. OPEN COLLEGE 1. Applying for education Guidance in counselling office
Interview, checking the selection criteria
Application to employment and economic development office
Student selection
Counselling Center: Guidance side by side
2. Individual stydy plan
Individual lenght, contents and aims
Everyday life skills, strengthen study and worklife skills, vocational aims
education aims review
3. Vocational education
Options:
The North Karelia College
The North Karelia Adult Education Centre
On-the-job learning based individual training in college or adult education center
Co-operation with: Economic Development Office, Social Insurance Institution,schools, health care and social services
4. Guidance after open college
Joint application system
Open or flexible access to schools
Guidance to other services

7. Group based preparatory training (to VET)
OPEN COLLEGE
Group based preparatory training (to VET)
2 – 3 days/week
2 – 3 days/week
Individually:
Core studies, ia.
Finnish 1–4 cr
Swedish 1 cr
English1-2 cr
Maths 1–3 cr
Physics and chemistry 1 cr
Arts and culture 1 cr
Psychology 1 cr
free-choice studies, which vary
Self-knowledge and learning skills : communication and social skills, learning methods, phycical education
Student counselling, work-based learning: periods that support career counselling and work skills
Preparation for the post-graduate studies and and working life: career counselling, working life knowledge, alternative study forms, different short-term certificate courses (ia. first-aid, hygiene proficiency)
Elementary school studies to revise grades

8. Statistics: Youth Support Project 903 young by September 2013
549 longterm councelling
354 shortterm counselling (under 7 hours)
In the end of counselling 48 % of clients transfered to further studies
Most of the young aged 17-22
Open College number of students app. 300, including preparatory studies for VET app. 230 and vocational training app. 80 students

9. Statistics

10. Statistics 361 nuorella keskeytyneitä koulutuksia
Long-term counselling

11. Statistics Lopetuspäivämäärä eri suuri kuin 0 Pitkäkestoiset
Vähennetään tuplat

12. Contact information: Tero Vornanen Project Manager p Kristiina Sallinen Education Planner p Hanna Nuutinen Counsellor p Helena Härkönen Project Assistant p