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Social services supporting integration, Jyväskylä

Visiting hours for guidance

Visiting hours for guidance, counselling and booking an appointment:

  • Monday 9–15
  • Tuesday 12–15
  • Wednesday 9–15
  • Thursday 12–15
  • Friday 9–15

Interpreter’s on call hours at the office:

  • Mondays: Arabic 12–14
  • Tuesdays: Swahili 12–14
  • Wednesdays: Dari/Farsi 12–14
  • Thursdays: Russian/Ukrainian 12–14
  • Fridays: Tigrinya/Amhara 12–14

If, as a service provider, you need information on the reimbursement status of services provided to an individual immigrant, call the office secretary, tel. 050 313 3981 on weekdays 10.00–15.00.

Call time to the helpline tel. 014 266 3423 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays 9.00–11.30, Tuesdays and Thursdays 14.00–15.00.

Contact details

  • Tel. 014 266 3423
  • Väinönkatu 1 a B, 2nd floor, 40100 Jyväskylä

The areas of social workers and social counsellors are divided pursuant to the client's residential area. Nelostie divides the Jyväskylä residential areas into the western and eastern areas. There are no particular phone hours available in the integration services. Leave your contact information so the employee can contact you if they cannot respond immediately. 

Western area

  • Social worker Inka Jalava, tel. 050 355 5192
  • Social worker Kaarina Päivinen, tel. 050 327 7875
  • Social counsellor Linda Vuorimaa, tel. 050 401 6352
  • Social counsellor Tanja Vesterinen-Pohjosaho, tel. 050 314 9991

Eastern area

  • Social worker Mari Paasolainen, tel. 050 441 3304
  • Social worker Sonja do Carmo da Silva, tel. 050 325 9354
  • Social worker Pauliina Huuskonen, tel. 046 922 2728
  • Social counsellor Tuula Vartiainen-Puutio, tel. 050 307 3696
  • Social counsellor Arja Hämäläinen, tel. 050 522 8656
  • Social counsellor Anne Sulkunen, tel. 050 322 2826

Services for young people entering Finland unaccompanied as underage asylum seekers

The service is intended for 18-24-year-old young people who have received a residence permit, and arrived in Finland as unaccompanied minors. Young people are supported in their independent living, studying and working.

  • Social worker Helena Mäkelä, tel. 050 311 8057
  • Social worker Päivi Koivu, tel. 050 314 1174
  • Social counsellor Riikka Liekkinen, tel. 040 358 0293, telephone hours Tuesdays and Thursdays.
  • unaccompanied minors arrived in Finland

Psychologist

  • Marleena Marttio, tel. 050 330 4988

Psychiatric nurse

  • Olga Peus, tel. 050 300 4071

Senior social worker

Margarita Goda-Savolainen, tel. 050 465 2605

Contact details

  • Helpdesk: 014 266 3423
  • Väinönkatu 1 a B, 40100 Jyväskylä
  • 2nd floor