Welfare Development Programme

We strengthen the mental well-being of children and young people in Tampere and promote the conditions for it in everyday encounters and environments, for example through:

• Reducing the atmosphere of performance-orientedness by raising the awareness of self-compassion and ways of maintaining a good mood.​
• Increasing mental health skills, e.g. by using the training and activities of the MIELI Mental Health Finland Good Minds Toolkit.
• Promoting and communicating the possibilities of leisure activities so that everyone can find their own hobby.
• Strengthening adults' skills in meeting young people and guiding them to meet each other.

We strengthen the sense of community and consideration of others in the everyday life and celebrations of diverse people in Tampere. We focus especially on strengthening the sense of community in quiet groups, for example through these means:

• Highlighting the importance and potential of the family community as a promoter of well-being.
• Increasing the sense of community among older people and developing the network of services in the neighbourhoods together with the Pirkanmaa Welfare Region and the third sector.
• Strengthening intergenerational encounters in everyday environments by providing meeting places.
• Promoting equality, for example by raising awareness of discrimination grounds among city staff.
• Identifying, together with organisations, ways of reaching out to silent groups. Introducing a model of outreach cultural work for older people and a model of constructive dialogue for children/young people (e.g. Timeout Foundation -dialogue).

We support broad cooperation between actors in Tampere to promote the effectiveness of welfare work. We focus on solving well-being challenges by using ecosystems and co-creation, for example through these means:

• By bringing together actors in Tampere across administrative and sectoral boundaries to promote well-being on a broad scale.
• Combining knowledge, expertise and action from the city, the welfare region, associations, parishes, the university community and businesses to address well-being challenges across administrative and sectoral boundaries.
• Finding ways to systematise cooperation between well-being actors to increase impact. For example, by carrying out an impact assessment on the mental well-being of young people.
• Building an ecosystem of young people's mental well-being, led by objectives based on shared knowledge and understanding.