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Citizen Arena is an association, which promotes
active citizenship and voluntary activity. It is a
National Volunteer Centre for the Networking,
Encouragement and Support of Volunteer
Organizations, Self-Help Groups and Volunteer
Centres
2009
A national network of volunteer and self-help actors
Voluntary work:
self-help – peer support – active citizenship
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Networking & strategic partnership
Information & multi expertises
Lobbying in favour of volunteering
Ideas & Innovations & Developing & Gathering of good practices
Strategic future work
Standards for volunteering qualification
Promotion of participation
Standards for volunteer centres
Volunteering infrastructure
The role of volunteering in society
Visibility of volunteers and citizens themselves
Visibility of reflexive volunteering
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Values
Sincerity and transparency
Participation
Solidarity and multi expertises: expertise based on
citizens own experience equal with professional
Horizontal cross sector networking
Reciprocal action and hearing
Strategic future work
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Visio: Kansalaisareena 2015
Citizen Arena is a leading national volunteer and selfhelp support centre in Finland, known in national and
international network as an information and
developing Centre, who promotes participation, selfhelp and volunteer network over sectors (private,
public, third) especially in Finland but also in Europe.
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Services 2009-2010
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Networking: New strategic network and cooperation
Lobbying: Gathering of information to support lobbying in favour of
volunteering and establishing the national infrastructure for self help
and voluntary work
Imago work for volunteering: Communicational plan 2009-2011
Projects: 9/2009–2/2010 “Networking over sectors (NGO, private and
public)” and “The National Strategy of Volunteering 2010-2013”:
RAY & Tekes
Expertises: National & International
Value-added services: Providing information, projects, consultative
meeting, training and research expertise, networking seminars,
publication, websites, project seminars, national register of clearing
houses and volunteer centres, study visit, materials, network for
coordinators, researchers and trainers on the volunteer and self-help
sector
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Addresses
Kansalaisareena ry – The Citizen Arena
Kumpulantie 1 A, 6. floor
00530 Helsinki, Finland, www.kansalaisareena.fi
Board member
Helena Palojärvi, + 358 40 5061220
helena.palojarvi (at) nic.fi
Board member
Irja Mikkonen, + 358 40 5512160
Irja.mikkonen(at)netsonic.fi
Executive director
Anitta Raitanen ,+358 50 442 0429
anitta.raitanen(at)kansalaisareena.fi
Designer
Jatta Vikström, +358 50 590 3322
jatta.vikstrom(at)kansalaisareena.fi
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NOVAT –programme is a programme where the focus
of the group is in self help group (which consists of
women who have started the programme and
group after they have listened to lectures and
information organized by WomenTogether Against
Addictions and decided to start in a group.
The group is composed anyone who is interested
in.She must accept 13 statements and workbooks and
the group rules.
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The group decides when it closes. But most groups get
closed after the fourth meeting and then they go on 1
and half years as a NOVAT-group.
The most important issues which the women work with
Are in workbooks – feelings of guilt, anger a
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Naistenkartano rf/ Women Together Against
Addictions
Three-years social marketing project called \"Välittäen\" has succeeded raising awareness
about the preventive and treatment work of Naistenkartano(Women Together Against
Addictions rf) among womenâ?" specially about the NOVAT- programme.
Over 80 % of participators had heard about NOVAT-self help activities from media, then
participated to lectures and started in self help group NOVAT
Social marketing means planning and implementation of techniques designed to bring about behavioral changes
using concepts from commercial marketing. We have done that in many wGys. We have offered possibilities to
easily reach us forexample by internet and in fairs, using free of charge and some chargeable commercial
information etc. and get women to think their problematic behaviour and gain them to start the programme and
to be part of the NOVAT-peer-groups and give them sense of community and to change their behaviors. We
have made our own project evaluation in different ways
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Some of the results are: many new participators have
started NOVAT-programme; social marketing must
serve the interests of the target group/audience: our
product NOVAT-programme must fit to women´s
life style and be taylor-made to them and give
different kind of participatory possibilities. In my
lecture I will tell more what kind of techniques we
have used and results the project has had to
NOVAT-groups and women and to our work. The
evaluation is practice- orientated selfevaluation. That also raises some of the critical
questions.
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Visits on internet pages during the project
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Over 80 % of participators had heard about NOVAT-self help activities from
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Mentions on media
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