HelsinkiMissio, Aggredi

HelsinkiMissio is a non-governmental organisation for social services that was founded in 1883. HelsinkiMissio’s Aggredi programme, which was started in 2006 and formerly named Aikalisä (Time Out), works with many different target groups. Working with 18 to 39-year-old offenders, the only thing that defines the clientele is their history of violent crimes, ranging for example from former gang members and members of right wing organisations. However, the main target group in derad work is people planning school or mass killings (lonely wolves).

Aggredi’s main goal is to decrease violence or end it in full at the individual level. The other goal is to develop working methods with outdoor violence offenders. To this end, the five employees working for the Aggredi program have created and developed a system for bringing hard-to-reach and poorly motivated clients to the realm of interactive support services and therapeutic working methods. There are always at least two workers dealing with one client.

Contact details:

Petri Salakka
Email: petri.salakka@helsinkimissio.fi