Support of Life Management Skills to Prevent Exclusion: A Brochure Guiding Immigrant Youth to Free-Time Activities
Penttilä, Eveline; Vesterinen, Aino (2019)
Penttilä, Eveline
Vesterinen, Aino
2019
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2019100319510
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Excluded individuals are those individuals who are outside of societal systems such as schooling and work market systems. A lack of life management skills play a central role in the formation of exclusion.
This thesis was done as a part of the Connext- project to address the issue of exclusion in immigrant youth. It was done as a functional work, with the purpose being to create a brochure showcasing cost-free activities in Helsinki and present it to Myllypuro Primary School’s junior high students. The goal was to help prevent intergenerational exclusion in immigrant youth by directing them to services that support life management skills.
Important life management areas that support the prevention of exclusion in immigrant youth are language, physical activity and social interaction. Positive social relationships create a sense of identity and belonging in individuals, as well as teaches various life skills. Having adequate language fluency influences the formation of friendships, the formation of identity in a new culture, and being able to succeed academically. Not only does physical activity have several health benefits, through sports youth have a chance to meet new people, feel a sense of belonging and learn life skills such as team-work and setting goals.
Based on the aforementioned life management areas, 33 cost-free activities were found in Helsinki that support those life skills. These activities were gathered up in a brochure and given out to the youth of Myllypuro Junior High, as well as shared to parents through the school’s administration program Wilma.
The benefit of the brochures is that through them, youth are directed to activities that support life management skills and can therefore help prevent exclusion. Furthermore, the brochure includes activities that parents of youth can join in on, therefore addressing the intergenerational aspect of exclusion.
This thesis was done as a part of the Connext- project to address the issue of exclusion in immigrant youth. It was done as a functional work, with the purpose being to create a brochure showcasing cost-free activities in Helsinki and present it to Myllypuro Primary School’s junior high students. The goal was to help prevent intergenerational exclusion in immigrant youth by directing them to services that support life management skills.
Important life management areas that support the prevention of exclusion in immigrant youth are language, physical activity and social interaction. Positive social relationships create a sense of identity and belonging in individuals, as well as teaches various life skills. Having adequate language fluency influences the formation of friendships, the formation of identity in a new culture, and being able to succeed academically. Not only does physical activity have several health benefits, through sports youth have a chance to meet new people, feel a sense of belonging and learn life skills such as team-work and setting goals.
Based on the aforementioned life management areas, 33 cost-free activities were found in Helsinki that support those life skills. These activities were gathered up in a brochure and given out to the youth of Myllypuro Junior High, as well as shared to parents through the school’s administration program Wilma.
The benefit of the brochures is that through them, youth are directed to activities that support life management skills and can therefore help prevent exclusion. Furthermore, the brochure includes activities that parents of youth can join in on, therefore addressing the intergenerational aspect of exclusion.