Everyday life skills

The prison arranges activities that aim to improve your everyday life skills and social skills.

The activities help you find your place in society and prepare for your release. They also support you to adopt a life without alcohol, drugs and crime and are often arranged during or after a substance abuse rehabilitation. Everyday life skills include cooking, maintaining clothes, financial planning and taking care of your home and well-being. You can learn everyday life skills, for example, if you are placed in a rehabilitation ward, attend separate courses or work in domestic care. In addition, we arrange courses on everyday life skills in cooperation with the Martha Organisation (martat.fi).

The prison offers various group activities, which improve your social skills and interaction skills. The specialist staff of the prison can help you to plan and build networks that will support your everyday life outside the prison. The networks can include, among others, peer support groups or support persons, social care and guidance services or religious communities.

The prisons can organise family camps themselves or in cooperation with Life without crime, RETS (rets.fi). The camps are usually arranged in open prisons or other locations outside the prison. In some prisons, the Finnish Red Cross (redcross.fi) offers special activities to fathers and their children that aim to support the relationship between a father and a child and teach parenting skills.

When your release is getting closer, the prison will give you information on, among others, accommodation, education, employment, different authorities, substance abuse rehabilitation and peer support. You can get support both individually and in groups.