Finnish Archives - Housing First Europe

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Mika Paasolainen

Mika is a director with 30 years of experience in substance abuse services, homelessness work, migrant services, harm-reduction, and trauma-informed care. He has extensive experience working with the most...

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Finland, Harm Reduction, Managing Housing First Teams

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Mia Saarela

Mia is Coordinator for the National Housing First Development Network in Finland. She is passionate about eradicating homelessness and developing new ways of approaching housing-related issues. Mia has a...

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Finland, Change Management, Evaluation, Housing First for Youth (HF4Y), Mind shift/culture shift

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Maria Degerman

Maria has started working with clients. Substance abuse, mental health, social problems and homelessness are familiar themes to her from that time. She has also designed services for these...

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Finland, Loneliness, Mind shift/culture shift, Recovery approach

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Pilvi Azeem

Pilvi started working in the homelessness field in Scotland in 2005 as an assertive outreach worker. After returning to Finland, she joined the Helsinki Deaconess Institute in one of...

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Finland, Managing Housing First Teams, Recovery approach, Strengths-based approach, Trauma-informed Care

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Juha Kahila

Juha has been working for 10 years in the field of homelessness. He started as a frontline support worker in 2010 for the Finnish Youth housing association services (NALPA)...

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Finland, Change Management, Harm Reduction, Housing First, Housing First for Youth (HF4Y), Managing Housing First Teams, Mind shift/culture shift