Rehabilitating work experience

Contact information of the personnel

Rehabilitating work activities aim at assisting long-term unemployed individuals. The Division’s clients are unemployed who receive living allowances (income support) or labour market subsidy.

Participation in work activities is compulsory for persons under 25 years, whereas it is voluntary for persons older than that.
The goal is to put an end to the unemployment of young people and to prevent them from becoming socially excluded at an early stage.

Rehabilitating work activities are based on an activation plan defining the means to activate the client for future vocational training or work.

The activation plan is made in cooperation with the client, a municipal social worker and an advisor from the employment office. An invitation is sent either by the social welfare office or the employment office requesting a client to visit and prepare an activation plan. Information about the rehabilitating work experience can also be obtained from the local social welfare office or the Division for Rehabilitating Work Experience.

Work activities are organized in various departments of the city as well as in various associations. Work activities may include assisting at day care centres, nursing homes, food service or libraries; or crafts such as restoration or fixing bicycles. The client’s individual capabilities, talents, wishes and goals are taken into account.

The work activity period includes personal guidance and can last between 3 and 24 months. Rehabilitating work experience takes place on one to five days during each calendar week, four to eight hours per day.

Contact information of the personnel

E-mail addresses of the personnel are of the format firstname.lastname@tampere.fi