TESSU 2 – Aitoon monialaiseen yhteistyöhön ja ohjausosaamiseen ohjaamoissa

The multidisciplinary One-Stop Guidance Centers (Ohjaamo) for young people are the most important activity started in Finland in the framework of the Social Guarantee for Young People.

Across Finland there are about 70 One-Stop Guidance Centers where professionals of the public, private and third sectors provide guidance and services with a low threshold to up to 30-year olds, regarding employment, studying, everyday life skills and health issues.

TESSU2 – Towards genuine multidisciplinary co-operation and guidance competences in One-Stop guidance Centres -project helped the One-Stop Guidance Centers to develop their activities, so that multidisciplinary co-operation creates an integrated operating method and culture, both at the One-Stop Guidance Centers and in their networks. This will further improve the availability of services at the One-Stop Guidance Centers as well as their ability to provide services.

Activities and methods

TESSU2 offered customized training, development and consultation services based on needs' assessments with a holistic approach. The activities and methods emphasize collegial learning and dialogue as well as tacit and explicit knowledge creation and sharing. By a dialogical approach based on an equal engagement, the professionals can learn from each other and collectively observe and evaluate taken actions and operations. An action-based approach is often utilized in training activities, involving interactive techniques in order to understand various experiences of the organization. The Centers' head coordinators are given support by being provided both training and collegial mentoring focusing on issues of leadership.