What is home? Home is where your family is. Where you feel most comfortable at with people you are comfortable with. A place in which you can be yourself and don’t have to worry about others judging you. A place where you feel safe. That should be the answer, but is that always the case?
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Social media plays a huge role in people’s lives these days. Wherever you go, you’ll see people staring at their phones, almost 24/7. People share a lot of their personal information on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat etc. (sometimes too personal, if you ask me…) There’s so many good things about social media and it makes our
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“The police is investigating a stabbing that took place at a Sininauhasäätiö facility for the homeless” (HS 13.7.2019) “A big police operation in Töölö at Sininauhasäätiö facility for the homeless” (HS 14.11.2018) “Drug abusing Sininauhasäätiö inhabitants cause trouble at Töölö library” (HS 18.7.2018) The news are happy to tell what I think. Violence, crimes, drugs,
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I first started to think what substance abuse is and what my own idea of it is? What first comes to mind when thinking of substance abuse are drugs, but of course it can also be many other things. Constant use of substance in a harmful manner that negatively affects your mental, physical or social
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According to ARA (asumisen rahoittamis- ja kehittämiskeskus), Finland had 5 482 people without a home last year. There are homeless single people, couples and families in Finland and most of these people are living in the area of Helsinki. Many of them are staying at their friends or relatives, but there are also people living
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Let us introduce ourselves! We are a group of Social Services students about to embark on a project around the issue of paperless people in Finland. We are Petra, Farzad, Rui and Nick.
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Hands up everyone! You are warmly welcomed to explore our blog, called Helping Hands. We are five 2nd and 3rd year Social Services students from Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Tikkurila campus.
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Hello everybody! Welcome to our blog! We are Monika, Nitika, Naina and Joy, social services students in Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Tikkurila Campus. We are about to start our adventure to go deeper into the issues related homelessness from different perspectives. Hopefully we generate some discussion about the topic. We would like to invite
Right-wing politics have been on the rise globally in the past years. Many European countries such as Germany, France, Hungary, Poland, UK, Italy and Sweden are getting more towards the right-wing in politics. The changes in political situation in European countries from the year 1999 can be seen here.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) has a lot of promise for learning. However, most applications so far are using AI to replace human interaction while there are less examples of AI increasing the productivity of interaction. This article presents two retail cases that approach interaction from a different angle. Written by Teemu Ylikoski
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