NURRI Activities

NURRI Activities prevent repeated criminal offences by supporting the comprehensive wellbeing of young people

12–29-year-old young people in Oulu, who are guilty of or are suspected of repeated criminal offences or one serious offence, are the target demographic of NURRI Activities. The youth can also be guilty of an individual offence with a background in substance abuse and danger of isolation.

The goal of the activities is to support the young person’s comprehensive wellbeing and the multi-professional prevention of repeated offence. On top of the young people, support can be targeted at their families if needed. The activities are designed based on individual need and are voluntary. The activities are free of charge.

With the Perhe voimavaraksi rikoksilla oireileville nuorille Project, NURRI Activities has received support from the wellbeing services county of North Ostrobothnia and the Prison and Probation Service of Finland.

The NURRI team includes Youth Workers Venla Virta and Anni Hemmilä, Psychiatric Nurse Kari Suutari, Social Counsilor Anna-Stiina Effe, and Criminal Sanctions Officer Sirpa Poussu.

Youth Offender’s community inmpact model

The community impact model is a network composed of different organizations which strives to promote the comprehensive wellbeing of customers by targeting and combining activities. The goal of the network is to form comprehensive services around the young person that will help them to take control of their life and stop criminal offences. The target group of the activities are young people under 29 years old in Oulu who are suspected or guilty of crimes. The activities are free of charge and voluntary for the customers.

The pilot is coordinated by the Prison and Probation Service of Finland’s Community Sanction Office of Oulu and NURRI activities

The following operators participate in the community impact network:

• Housing Guidance, City of Oulu
• Oulu’s TYP – Cross-sectoral joint service promoting employment, Business Oulu’s Employment Services
• Compulsory Education Officer, City of Oulu
• NURRI Activities, City of Oulu and Pohde
• Vamos Oulu, HDL Deaconess Foundation
• ODL, Oulu Deaconess Foundation sr
• Katu 2.0 Project, OsNa Ry
• Substance Abuse Open Services, Pohde
• Youth Social Services, Pohde
• Regional psychiatric services and mental health services, Pohde
• Prison and Probation Service of Finland

The customer process starts with contacting the NURRI Youth Workers and the customer’s situation and needs are estimated. After the estimation, NURRI gathers the needed operators and invites them and the customer into a shared network meeting. The goal of the network consisting of different operators is to create an individual plan together with the customer. The plan’s realization will be monitored with continual meetings.