SUOMEN SETLEMENTTILIITTO RY

The Finnish Federation of Settlement Houses  (FFSH), founded in 1918, is an umbrella organization that consists of 45 local Settlements across Finland. The forms of activity include work with seniors and the elderly, child and youth work, multicultural work, the development and production of communal forms of housing, various forms of supported housing, community center activity, services for mentally handicapped people, the education supply of 16 community colleges, three folk high schools and two special education schools, employment promotion, various forms of trauma and crisis work, substance abuse rehabilitation services, debt counseling, mediating and victim support.