Vantaa for the Young

Vantaa Youth Services' fourteen youth houses offer versatile things to do: hobbies from music to dance, the visual arts, theater, games, gardening, gym, skating place, clubs, workshops, camps, hanging out,

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vantaa's youth houses

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addresses of youth houses

West Vantaa Martinlaakso youth and resident house Martinlaaksonpolku 4 tel. 09 8393 4755/ 050 312 4498 [email protected] f fOpen youth evenings, billiard and cooking clubs, girls' nail club, gym, two bandstands and 114-m2 multipurpose hall. Arkki multi-purpose facilities house Liesitori 1 A 3rd floor tel. 09 839 35542 / 043 8250841 0983935594 / 043 825 0839 Arkki studio tel. 09 8393 5629 / 043 825 0839 [email protected] f fSmall-group activities, concerts, theatrical performance and disco. 32-trac Pro-tools-based recording studio and Arkki Cafe internet café.

YOUTH HOUSES & ACTIVITIES Pähkinärinne youth house Mantelikuja 4 tel. 09 8393 9958 / 050 314 5579 f fOpen evenings, billiard, cooking, gaming, socializing, trips, and physical exercise. Kannisto youth and resident house KanNu Kenraalintie 6 tel. 09 839 29 255 [email protected] f fThree bandstands, clubs, and gym. 160-m2 multipurpose hall for versatile activities, ranging from cultural events to sports, to residents' events.

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Mikkola youth house Lyyranpolku 2 tel. 09 8393 2342 / 0400 487 334 Special youth work, tel. 050 3124 499 [email protected] f fTrips, camps, cooking, sports, handicrafts, and gym. Korso youth house Korsontie 2 tel. 09 8393 2567 / 0400 760 849 [email protected] f fActivities for pre-youths, open evenings for the young, various clubs and events. Havukoski youth house Eteläinen Rastitie 14 tel. 09 8392 4337 / 040 541 5957 Special youth work, tel. 040 588 6287 [email protected] f fFocus on cultural youth work. Dancing, games, clubs ranging from girls' club to handicrafts, trips, camps, band evenings, and disco. Premises are accessible.

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addresses of youth houses

Hakunila Hakunila youth house Laukkarinne 4 (shopping mall) tel. 09 8392 9464 / 050 312 2080 Special youth work, tel. 09 8393 0173 / 040 513 8607 [email protected] f fThe biggest in eastern Vantaa. Theater premises and halls for myriad activities. Kolohonka youth house Itäinen Valkoisenlähteentie 19 B tel. 09 839 30828 / 040 867 6212 [email protected] f fActivities for people of all ages. Games, cooking clubs, bandstand, and other small-group premises. Länsimäki F I N D A L L youth house Vantaa youth clubs in Suunnistajankuja 2 F A C E B tel. 09 839 31012 O O K / 050 303 2885 [email protected] f fOpen evenings, clubs, and gaming.

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Tikkurila Hiekkaharju youth house ”36” Leinikkitie 36, tel. 09 839 22064 / 050 312 2079 [email protected] f fThree bandstands and a studio. Billiard, table tennis, gaming console and board games. Events, trips, cooking, handicrafts, and other hobbies for pre-youths and the young.

Pakkala youth house Wintti Ylästöntie 35, tel. 040 847 3191 [email protected] f fHandicrafts, cooking, trips, camps, disco, evening activities, gym, sports, and putting on artificial nails. The premises also loan equipment to those with a membership card. Tonttula youth house Ratatie 2 tel. 09 83928370 [email protected] f fThe versatile house is home to Youth Counseling and Support Center Kipinä, youth handicrafts workshop, and a café. Vernissa Cultural and Multipurpose House for Children and the Young Tikkurilantie 36, tel. 09 839 24451 [email protected] f fVernissa is Vantaa's cultural youth work center. See more detailed introduction on page 15.

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Tikkurila youth house Neilikkatie 3, tel. 839 24680 / 043 826 7403 [email protected] f fBilliard, table tennis, handicrafts, cooking, and physical exercise. Accessible entrance to premises.

MEMBERSHIP CARD

DID YOU KNOW THAT...?

f fVantaa's youth houses are safe, smoke-free

and intoxicant-free leisure-time places. They arrange open activities to 10–17-year-olds in the afternoons, evenings and on weekends. f fYou can meet your friends, engage in gaming and hobbies, or just hang out. f fYou can make ideas and implement tournaments, theme nights evenings, courses, or other activities with youth-work professionals. f fThe employees are always ready to talk, listen, and advise!

MEMBERSHIP CARD With just one membership card, you can participate in youth house activities in four cities. Whether you want to cook, play the guitar, participate in an art club or just hang out, you can do all that with a free-of-charge membership card, regardless of the city you live in. Get Vantaa, Helsinki, Espoo and Kauniainen's youth services' joint membership card and open the door to hundreds of hobbies and leisure-time places! The membership card is valid in the metropolitan area youth houses. You can get it, if you are under 29. In order to get the card, fill in the attached form, sign it, and return it to the youth club house. We will not disclose your information to any third party. You have the right to check your own data. Activities in youth houses are supervised by adults. Our employees are trained youth workers. All activities are intoxicant-free. More information on our operations is available on Vantaa, Helsinki, Espoo and Kauniainen's youth work websites. 10

Valid until July 31, 2016

YOUTH HOUSE MEMBERSHIP CARD FORM 2015–2016 Unfasten this membership card form, fill it in with your guardian, and take it to the youth house where you will get a

FREE-OF-CHARGE membership card that entitles you to all the activities!

Koulu ja luokka

Mother tongue by email

by mail

Signature of the young person over the age of 15 or the guardian

We photograph and video our operations and young people from time to time for communication purposes. The photographs and videos are used in the Youth Services’ publications (for example on social media, websites, brochures). A person over the age of 15 may decide for themselves if they permit photography. Photographs and videos of me may / my child be used in the communications of my home city:

Photography Permit

I am interested in receiving information about the Youth Services’ activities (such as events/hobbies):

Syntymäaika:

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Email

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Swedish

Russian

by mail

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Somali

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English

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Other, please specify: I am interested in working as an adult volunteer at a youth centre:

Estonian

Please sign the filled out form and return it to a youth centre. The membership card is free of charge. We collect membership information for the purpose of developing our services. We do not give out this information to third parties.

Signature of the young person over the age of 15 or the guardian

by email

You may contact me about youth houses' current activities:

Finnish

Youth houses wish to develop their multicultural communication with families. What is the language you speak at home?

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TO BE FILLED OUT IF THE YOUNG PERSON IS UNDER THE AGE OF 18

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Vantaa Youth Services

Vantaa's cultural youth work center is Vernissa Cultural and Multipurpose House.

CULTURAL YOUTH WORK In Vernissa's animation and film workshops, the young can familiarize themselves with movie-making and try making their own movies. The free-ofcharge workshops give rise to many prize-winning animations and movies every year. You will see both beginning and well-known musicians, theatrical and dance performances as well as other performing art events on Vernissa's stage. The house also offers training premises for the young.

The metropolitan area youth services together arrange Finland's annual biggest band review Ääni ja Vimma as well as Loistefestari whose themes range from music to theater to dance. f fVernissa, Tikkurilantie 36 tel. 09 8392 4451

You will find Vernissa on Facebook too.

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The Theatre of Tikkurila and Vantaan elävän musiikin yhdistys VELMU ry also operate in Vernissa. The Theatre of Tikkurila provides basic art education in theater and circus art, whereas VELMU arranges monthly youth-targeted club events. Vantaa's other youth houses also offer band activities, theater, dancing, and handicrafts, see map on pages 4–5.

special youth work

Duck Patrol The street patrol, begun in 1993, derived its name from a car rear window. The vehicle in question had just been Ankkarock's maintenance car, and somebody had written the word "Ankka", "Duck" on the dirty window. "Duck" became first the patrol's nickname and later its official name. The logo, still used today, was drawn by a then-10-year-old youngster. The Duck Patrol consists of special youth workers, youth workers, and trained volunteers. Any young person, parent, official, or anybody concerned about a young person's behavior can call the Duck Patrol. The employees visit schools and youth houses to inform about their activities. Upon request, they will also speak at various events and, for instance, PTA meetings. f fWest Vantaa tel. 040 717 4216 f fEast Vantaa tel. 0400 427 712

Special youth work Special-youth-work professionals support the young as regards school attendance, substance abuse, bullying, or any other issue that troubles them. The primary target group consists of 13-6-year-olds. You can contact a special youth worker by phone, through Facebook, or you can 16

visit the youth houses where they attend, among other things, youth evenings. You can meet the employee alone, with a friend, with parents, or with someone else that is close to you. The employee and the young person concerned together ponder on what kind of support the situation requires. We aim to support the young and their families in their everyday lives. When required, we try to solve matters in cooperation with our partners, for example, school employees.

Information and counseling for the young informs about current matters, answers questions, and guides the young forward in problems large and small. The service is meant for 15–25-year-old Vantaa residents. Information and answers can also be found on the jeesi.fi website. In addition, the service arranges theme workshops on, for example, housing and job-hunting, and produces versatile material in the language of the young in cooperation with various partners. f fwww.jeesi.info Instagram: jeesivantaa

Facebook: Nuorten Vantaa [email protected]

Rainbow youth activities Rainbow youths assemble on Thursdays from 17:00 to 20:00 in Tikkurila, Tonttula youth houses. Activities are meant for 13–25-year-olds. f fRatatie 2, tel. 050 312 4499 / 043 825 9651

INFO+COUNSELING

Information and counseling

organisations | groups | camps

Youth organisations and action groups Youth Services actively cooperates with pre-youth and youth organisations. We support the organisations and action groups by awarding grants, arranging training, and informing about activities. Organisations and action groups can use youth houses free of charge. All activities shall account for abstinence from intoxicants, sustainable development, and safety.

It's fun to go camping! Youth Services and organisations arrange camp activities around the year. Kukonnotko camping center in Heinola and Palajärvi camping center in Veikkola provide versatile facilities for camping and course activities. In addition, Kukonnotko camping center is available in the winter as well. f fFor further information, call 09 839 232 60

Young people's own projects Would you like to arrange an event or organize activities? Would you like to influence and bring about changes? Do you have a splendid project idea? Youth Services offers myriad possibilities for you to participate and influence issues that are important to you. For instance, you can participate in groups (Youth Council, youth house influ-

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encer groups, young people's own groups) and in the Movers & Shakers Day, vote in the youth-council election, submit initiatives, or act as a peer counselor and event producer. You can belong to an organisation or plan and implement your own project, for which you can apply activity pay for the young.

Youth council

The youth council assembles on a monthly basis, submits initiatives to the city executive board, gives statements, participates in various working groups, and arranges events targeted at the young. It also cooperates with boards of student associations. f fVantaa Youth Council, tel. 09 8392 9468

YOUTH COUNCIL

The youth council supervises the interests of the young and addresses issues important to the young. Elections take place at 2-year intervals, and 20 members as well as 20 deputies ages 1318 are selected. The representatives of the youth council have the right to attend and right of discussion at the committees, district committees, as well as the city council.

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Youth counseling and support center Kipinä Kipinä offers support and counseling for under-29year-old Vantaa residents. Come and talk with us if you did not win a further education place or if you have interrupted your studies. We will inform you about, for example, study places and different workshops for the young. Let's find the right way for you together!

Outreach youth work Have you been excluded from education and the labor market? Do you need help to get your life back on track? Outreach youth work supports under-29-year-old young people in issues related to, among other things, education and employment, challenges posed by independence, and charting leisure activities. Open on Tuesdays and Wednesday from 12:00 to 19:00 or as agreed. 09 8392 8360

050 312 4372

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Youth workshops The workshops are meant for 16–28-year-old Vantaa unemployed job-seekers. Priority is given to youth with no vocational education or work experience. Youth workshops will introduce you to upper secondary education and advise you how to apply for a study place. During the work trial period you will familiarize yourself with study- and workplaces and perform assignments compliant with the theme of the workshop. A personal plan will be compiled for each participant. You can, for example, raise your school grades, take courses, and acquire a hygiene passport. You can use the services provided by, among others, a student ad20

visor and a nurse. Healthy lifestyles and introduction to local culture are also included in the program. Time: Mon-Fri, from 9:00 to 15:00. You can get workshop applications at TE Services, Youth Services' office and directly from the workshops. For more info on workshops use Facebook search: Vantaan nuorten työpajatoiminta.

workshop taa Van 0 0174 2, kuja Tuupakan aa.fi tel. 09 8392 201 / auto.metalli@vant

f fCar and metal repairing

f fHandicrafts workshop

Ratatie 2, 01300 Vantaa aa.fi tel. 09 8392 4087 / kadentaito@vant

f fLummetie workshops

Lummetie 5, 01300 Vantaa tel. 09 839 27877 / 09 839 24069 ry Painting, carpentry and upholste aa.fi vant at@ .paj etien lumm

f fNeilikkatie workshops

Neilikkatie 3, 01300 Vantaa [email protected] skills Communication and interaction tel. 09 8392 2871 3 Culinary workshop p. 09 8392 026 menolippu@ vantaa.fi tel. 040 771 6722 / 0400 591 626 For over-17year-olds. You can finish your lacking basic-school studies and get a graduation certificate.

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på svenska

SVENSKA Ungdomsservicen i Vanda

in english

Vanda betjänar också svenskspråkiga ungdomar. Ungdomsservicen i Vanda erbjuder unga en trygg och rusmedelsfri plats att tillbringa sin fritid. Syftet med svenskspråkiga ungdomsarbete är att stärka de ungas identitet, stödja tvåsprå­kighet och att få till stånd mera service på svenska. Vanda stad erbjuder dessutom de unga möjligheter att påverka i de ärenden som angår unga genom Vandas ungdomsfullmäktige. HG/Helsinggård är Vanda stads enda svenskspråkiga ungdomsgård. Där kan du spela spel, chilla, laga mellanmål och delta i roliga aktiviteter som planeras och förverkligas av ungdomarna och ungdomsledarna tillsammans. HG är öppet på fredagar och finns på Konungsvägen 2 i Dickursby. f fSvensk ungdomsarbete

Övitsbölevägen 3, t. 09 8392 8251, 050 3122078 facebook.com/ungivanda [email protected]

ENGLISH

Vantaa Youth Services f fOffers the young people of Vantaa safe, alco-

hol and drugs free places for their leisure time.

f fOrganizes a wide variety of activities, events,

workshops, courses and tutoring.

f fCo-operates with families, schools and various

different organizations.

f fSupports activities initiated by the young and

offers them various possibilities to influence on communal level. f fGives guidance and encourages towards adapting a healthier lifestyle. A free membership card is needed for participating in the activities. Fill in the application in the center fold of this brochure and bring it to any youth house in Vantaa (see map p. 4–5). 22

Vantaa Together

Vantaa Youth Services

Kielotie 20C (4th floor), 01300 Vantaa tel. +358 9 83911 Instagram: #nuortenvantaa Facebook: Vantaa for the Young

www.vantaa.fi/nuoret