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Contents

eConsultancy service in different professional areas

eHandbook for child welfare offering daily tools and information

Web pages for national development projects in social welfare

Link index with more than 2000 classified links

Daily news and calendar

Discussion groups 

Extranets

Blogs

Online directory of special experts

Sosiaaliportti.fi - The Social Gateway

Sosiaaliportti is an online gateway to information for social work professionals in Finland. 

The service collects and disseminates a wide variety of online information on social welfare issues, provides support to professionals, gives greater visibility to actors in the field and offers professionals a forum for networking.

Sosiaaliportti is targeted especially at social workers and other professionals and leading officials in the social sector and is desinged from the practitioner's perspective.

Aims

Sosiaaliportti is an innovation service for professional activity and a continuous development project. 

The site supports (tacit and explicit) knowledge exchange between professionals and encourages peer support. 

The service is national, free of charge, open to all web users. Sosiaaliportti aims to strengthen the status and image of social work in Finland.

Background 

Sosiaaliportti was created as part of the eConsultation project (2001–2004), funded by the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. The portal was launched in March 2005. It is published by Meteor CMS and maintained by the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL).

  Ministry of Social Affairs and Health 
  National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) 
  Sininen Meteoriitti Oy

 

Hanna Heikkonen
Senior Planning Officer
Editor-in-Chief, Sosiaaliportti
Tel. +358 20 610 7179
hanna.heikkonen@thl.fi

Soila Mäkitalo
Senior Planning Officer
Technical web maintenance and development, Sosiaaliportti
Co-ordination and support of project websites
Tel. +358 20 610 7623
soila.makitalo@thl.fi

Tiina Ruisniemi
Planning Officer
Web maintenance and development, Sosiaaliportti
Tel. +358 20 610 7624
tiina.ruisniemi@thl.fi