A new family center coordinator started
"It's been great to watch how the plans have come to fruition here, and I now get to continue that work"
- I feel that my biggest field of work is managing cooperation. The goal is that everyone working with children and youth and families has a common operating model so that we are a whole around them, the new family center coordinator of the city of Äänekoski Petri Oinonen says. - People around children and families have to kick the ball to the same goal.
Petri Oinose (sociologist YAMK) has versatile work experience. He has worked, among other things, as the director of Muurami's youth activities, in Jyväskylä city's social services and child protection, and has done expert work. Oinonen has been involved in projects related to social security reform, being responsible for the activities of children and families and child protection, and has been leading family center activity pilots both in Central Finland and nationwide. Most recently, Oinonen was in Jyväskylä as the head of the special and demanding support child protection unit of the SOS-Lapsikylä foundation.
- As the Central Finland family center coordinator, I visited Äänekoski for the first time in 2016 and got to know the city's operators even then, Oinonen says. - That's when the post of family center coordinator was established here and Elina Lämsä, whose successor I am now, started in the job. It's been great to watch how the plans have come to fruition here, and I now get to continue that work.
Despite the job title, the family center coordinator is responsible not only for the family center but also for the youth work of the entire city of Äänekoski. There are 12 subordinates, of which 11 are from the youth side. Äänekoski has one family center and four youth spaces around Äänekoski. Oinonen is happy that new youth facilities will also be available in the center in connection with the new school.
- Also, the fact that the city of Äänekoski provides summer employment to all those who finish their primary school is a great deal and a big investment compared to any other city in Finland, says Oinonen.
Oinonen is involved in building social security reform and he sees the change more as an opportunity than a threat. - Especially for small municipalities, it brings much-needed broader shoulders to, for example, recruitment challenges.
Oinonen lives in Jyväskylä and the family includes three school-age children.
For more information:
Family center coordinator Petri Oinonen, 0400 115 190, petri.oinonen@aanekoski.fi
News published 17.2.2022, modified 2.5.2024/07/24 at XNUMX:XNUMX