Social welfare services

The Social Welfare services are:

Daycare services

The aim of the daycare is to offer families early education which takes the child's individual needs into consideration and supports her/his growth and development together with the parents. Daycare is offered in daycare centres, family daycare, and as club activities. There are about 800 daycare places in Heinola, about 200 of these are in family daycare. There are nine daycare centres. One can apply for a place in daycare all the year round. For more information, contact the daycare centres and social services centre.

Services for home help and elderly

The home help gives assistance to families with children, the elderly, the handicapped and the chronically ill on the basis of individual needs. In the work with the elderly, the aim of the home help is to enable the elderly to live in their own homes as long as possible.

The support services complement or substitute the assistance given by the home help personnel. The support services include, among others, meals on wheels service, bathing services, house cleaning services, daycare activities, transportation services for the elderly, services during vacations, and cleaning and ironing of clothes.

Housing services and institutional care are meant for those elderly people who can no longer live in their own homes with the help of the home help service, but are not in need of hospital services. For more information, contact the home help supervisors.

Special services for the handicapped

The aim of the special services for the handicapped is to ensure that the handicapped inhabitants of the municipality will be able to deal with the normal activities of life, and to arrange care through non-institutional care (e.g. transportation services, interpreting services, housing services, and modifications in flats), as well as secure care in an institution or in a private home, as required. For more information, contact the employees of the services for the handicapped.

Other social welfare services

- Social work
- General supervision
- Child welfare
- Paternity and alimony issues
- Welfare for intoxicant abusers
- Social ombudsman
- Subsistence subsidy

For more information, contact the social welfare workers and customer service in the social services centre.