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Well-being mentoring for adults

Vantaa Wellbeing mentoring is a no-cost lifestyle guidance service for adults living in Vantaa.

Introduction

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Well-being mentoring is a free lifestyle service for local adults. The aim of the service is to make permanent changes in one's lifestyle and improve one's health habits.

The duration of the guidance varies from a single appointment up to one year. The service includes a personal wellbeing mentor who will support you to get started in increasing physical activity and changing your eating habits. The goal of the service is to achieve permanent lifestyle changes.

The service is offered mainly i…n Finnish, Swedish and English. If necessary, the service can also be provided in other languages.

Prerequisites

Who can participate:
1. Those who are motivated and have enough resources to do long-term lifestyle changes.
2. Those who are at risk of getting a lifestyle disease because of sedentary lifestyle, unhealthy eating habits or overweight.
3. In case of persistent diseases (e.g. diabetes, depression, cardiovascular diseases) a contact in healthcare is needed. Participation in the program is not possible with severe mental illness (SMI) diagnosis.

You can apply for the service through health care personnel.

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Advice

Referral to wellbeing mentoring for adults

You can be referred to wellbeing mentoring by contacting your health center, which will send a message to the wellbeing mentoring service through the patient information system.

As such, if you are in need of support for lifestyle changes, please mention it during an appointment or contact your health center.

You can ask the wellbeing mentor for more information about the service by email or phone.

Process description

The service is available at the Tikkurila, Korso, Martinlaakso and Myyrmäki health centers.

The wellbeing mentor will contact the customers referred to the service by phone according to their place in the queue. The waiting time for the start of the service is 2-3 months.

Costs

Wellbeing mentoring is free of charge for customers.

Information

Wellbeing mentors
Staff email addresses are in the format firstname.lastname@vantaa.fi

West Vantaa (Myyrmäki and Martinlaakso):
Niina Heikkurinen, 040 355 4488
Noora Smolander, 040 6104921
Inka Sipilä, 040 193 8495

East Vantaa (Tikkurila and Korso):
Jan-Erik Jäske, 040 527 7948
Iisa Telford, 040 670 5504
Hanna Okkonen, 040 190 7136

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