January 2023:
RESET research group published a report on the experiences of the mobile multiprofessional ‘Nopsajalka’ model developed in Jyväskylä to reduce homelessness (Sannino, Engeström & Kärki, 2023, in Finnish and in English).
February 2023:
Juha Kaakinen, rapporteur (selvitysmies) appointed by the Ministry of Environment, published his report on the state and future needs of homelessness work in Finland. The report states:
“The Nopsajalka model of mobile support was created in 2019 in a Change Laboratory at Tampere University, which involved representatives from the City of Tampere’s social and health services, housing services and major third sector service provider organisations, and also drew on the experiences of LiiTu activities in Pori. The Nopsajalka model has been further developed in Jyväskylä in a project launched in autumn 2020. Professor Annalisa Sannino’s research group’s modelling is based in particular on Jyväskylä’s Nopsajalka experience. … The Nopsajalka multi-professional team is a remarkably cost-effective and flexible model for ensuring access to services and support for homeless people, compared to the ACT team under the HF Pathways model.” (Kaakinen, 2023a, p. 18; Kaakinen 2023b)
In the section devoted to measures needed to end homelessness, the report recommends:
”As a joint process between the participating wellbeing services counties and the Housing First Development Network a comprehensive description of alternative approaches to multi-professional mobile support will be produced. The development work is based on the Nopsajalka modelling by Professor Annalisa Sannino’s research group.” (Kaakinen, 2023a, p. 24; Kaakinen, 2023b)
March-October 2023:
RESET researchers and the Housing First Development Network of the Y-Foundation organized a series of seven workshops with representatives from nine wellbeing services counties:
- Helsinki
- Central Finland
- Kymenlaakso
- North Karelia
- North Ostrobothnia
- Ostrobothnia
- Pirkanmaa
- Satakunta
- Vantaa-Kerava
Based on the principles of formative interventions (Sannino, Engeström & Lemos, 2016), the workshops were conducted as a bottom-up participatory learning process of collective analysis and design together with mid-level managers and leading practitioners from nine wellbeing services counties. The process led to the co-writing of Kohti liikkuvaa moniammatillista asunnottomuustyötä, 2023.
December 11, 2023:
The process culminated on December 11, 2023 in a national seminar with about 120 participants, including key decision makers from different wellbeing services counties in Finland. In the seminar the participants discussed the prospects to implement mobile multiprofessional homelessness work in the newly established wellbeing services counties.
The focus was particularly on three foundational principles of mobile multiprofessional homelessness work identified during the participatory analyses and design:
“On the basis of these three principles, the different wellbeing services counties can develop and maintain operating models and teams that best suit each region’s circumstances. At the same time it is important to continue exchanging experiences among the models developed in the different counties” (Kohti liikkuvaa moniammatillista asunnottomuustyötä, 2023, p. 44)
References
Kaakinen, J. (2023a). Going home: Report on the measures needed to end homelessness by 2027. Helsinki: Ministry of Environment. Y-Foundation webpage (Accessed 11.11.2024)
Kaakinen, J. (2023b). Kotiin: Selvitysraportti tarvittavista toimenpiteistä asunnottomuuden poistamiseksi vuoteen 2027 mennessä. Finnish Government webpage (Accessed 12.12.2023).
Kohti liikkuvaa moniammatillista asunnottomuustyötä: Loppuraportti [Toward mobile multiprofessional homelessness work: Final report] (2023). Helsinki: Y-Foundation.
Sannino, A., Engeström, Y., & Kärki, E. (2023). Multiprofessional mobile support for overcoming homelessness: A study of Nopsajalka work in Jyväskylä. Tampere: Tampere University, Faculty of Education and Culture.
Sannino, A., Engeström, Y., & Lemos, M. (2016). Formative interventions for expansive learning and transformative agency. Journal of the Learning Sciences, 25(4), 599-633.
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