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On business days, your local health station is your primary provider of health care services in all cases of accidents and illness.
There are different kinds of festive halls, meeting rooms, premises and gyms available for renting.
Please contact us for further information and for booking: hyto.tilavaraukset@turku.fi
Turku Region Interpretation Centre constantly recruits community interpreters and translators.
If you are a trained professional in the field and interested in working as a community interpreter or translator, please send us an informal application and your CV to the address:
- johtaja.tulkkikeskus(a)turku.fi
Turku Region Interpretation Centre offers interpreting and translation services in the following languages:
- Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Azeri
- Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese
- Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin), Croatian, Czech
- Danish, Dari, Dutch
- English, Estonian
- French
- Georgian, German, Greek
- Hindi, Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kurdish/Bahdini, Kurdish/Feyli, Kurdish/Sorani
- Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian
- Macedonian, Mandinka, Mon
Interpreting
Community interpreting is arranged either on the spot or in distance, for example as telephone interpreting. Community interpreting can be ordered by contacting the interpreter coordination of the Interpretation Centre on weekdays between 8.15 am and 4 pm.
- tel: +358 (0)2 262 6321 or
- e-mail: tulkkaukset.tulkkikeskus(a)turku.fi
24-hour service: outside the office hours (evenings, nights, and weekends), an official can order interpreting services via the service number, tel. +358 (0)500 788 703.
Interpreting services
Community interpreting
65 €/hour + VAT 24 %
Legal interpereting
72 €/hour + VAT 24 %
Seminar and conference interpreting
75 €/hour + VAT 24 %
Languages with rare availability
according to actual expenses
Dinstance interpreting (phone and video)
32,50 €/ ½ hour + VAT 24 % per each beginning half-hour
Emergency interpreting extra
10,00 € + VAT 24 %
Message exchange service
20,00 € / message + VAT 24 %
The material that needs translating has to be delivered to the Interpretation Centre well in advance via postal service, e-mail, or fax.
Delivery time is negotiable with the translation coordinator depending on the case.
The order must always be made by an official.
An interpreter has to be ordered well in advance via the interpreter coordination of the Turku Region Interpretation Centre. The service number +358 (0)500-788703 operates outside office hours for emergencies.
The time reserved for the interpreting must be long enough because the interpreters have to leave early for the next interpreting commission. Remember to always inform about changes or cancellations!
Turku Region Interpretation Centre offers professional community interpreting, document translations, and customer training
Turku Region Interpretation Centre is a regional, municipal interpretation centre that offers community interpreting and translation services for officials working with immigrants. Also private persons can order translations.
at the Immigrant Office at Eskelin talo, Linnankatu 23, 6th floor
17.1, 14.2, 7.3, 4.4 and 2.5.2018
on Wednesdays at 2 pm
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Vamos Turku is a service produced by Helsinki Deaconess Institute. It offers support in the form of individual and group training for 12–19-year olds.
The training supports the growth and well-being of the youth both at home, in school, and during free time. We can help with matters related to the youth’s school attendance, coping, becoming independent, social relationships, or free time. The training is walking with the youth and supporting him/her through the changes. The training is based on the youth’s own goals, wishes, and needs.
The school psychologists of the Family and Social Services’ psychosocial services are mainly responsible for the school psychologist services in the City of Turku. Part of the school psychological work in the centralized service comprehensive schools, where students get instruction within the sphere of special support, is conducted in the Child Upbringing and Family Counselling Clinic. Centralized service schools in Turku are: Mikael, C.O. Malm, and Katariina schools, as well as the small classes of Luolavuori school.
- Mapping the situation of a family and child and planning supporting measures
- Support visits for children, parents, and families
- Psychological individual examinations for children and youth
- Interaction assessments and interaction therapy
- Family therapies
- Relationship visits
- Family mediation
- Crisis time slots for when a family has faced a sudden and traumatic event
- Co-operation with e.g. day care, schools, and child welfare, with the customer’s consent
- Various groups for customers
You can contact the Child Upbringing and Family Counselling Clinic e.g. when:
Client fees in the wellbeing services county of Southwest Finland in 2023: varha.fi
Mäntymäki archives
Medical records of the municipal residents are kept in the Mäntymäki archives. The medical records include, for example, medical reports, dental reports, and the documents of mother and child welfare clinics and school welfare.
Archives of the Social Office
Customer documents of the Social Services are kept in the archives of the Social Office. Documents of the Social Services include, for example, documents related to Family Services, Services for the Elderly and the Disabled, and Child Welfare.
As an immigrant, you can receive family and social services from the City of Turku like all other Turku residents. The initial social services provide guidance when you need information about social services in general. The initial social services can also help you with applying for supplementary and preventive social assistance (financial aid).
If your illness has lasted for over three months or is permanent, you have a right to receive medical supplies in accordance with your medical treatment plan free of charge. As a client of Turku health centre you can pre-order the supplies and reclaim them from the Medical Supplies Distribution pickup point after three weeks.
Both the Medical Supplies Distribution pickup point and nurses’ practice are located in the area of the Mäntymäki hospital. Book an appointment for a nurse if you need guidance in the use of medical supplies.
As from 1 January 2017, basic social assistance has been a benefit granted by Kela. Municipalities continue to grant supplementary and preventive social assistance.
In order to apply for supplementary and preventive social assistance, Kela must have granted a decision on basic social assistance.
Social assistance is meant to be a temporary form of assistance and it is a last-resort financial assistance by nature. Therefore, the applicant must provide details of not being able to earn a living from gainful employment, self-employment or other types of income or assets.
An office-holder will make the decision on income support. You will always get the income support calculation along with the basic income support decision. From the calculation you can see, for example, the income and expenses that have been taken into account.
The income support or part of it can be reclaimed if, for example, some other benefit has been delayed or if the applicant has provided false or misleading information.
Basic amounts of income support since 1 January 2015.
National pension index and extra index increase 1630
In addition to the basic amount, the following expenses are taken into account in income support calculations.
The following expenses are covered by the basic amount. Vouchers/receipts of these expenses should not be attached to the application.
- Food and clothing
- Minor health care expenses
- Expenses for personal hygiene and home cleaning
- Use of local traffic
- Paper or magazine subscriptions
- Phone, TV and internet expenses
- Expenses for hobbies and recreational activities
- Other everyday expenses
Income support is primarily granted on a calendar monthly basis.
Whether the applicant has a right for income support or not is determined by calculations.
A family’s income is considered to comprise one month’s disposable income and assets, and expenses are considered to comprise the basic amount and other eligible expenses. If expenses are calculated to exceed income, the applicant is entitled to income support by the amount of the remainder.
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