LANUPS – Child protection and adolescent psychiatry co-occupation

Young people in care need a lot of support. Repeated changes of placement consume social and health care resources. At the same time, they give the young person an experience of constant failure and undermine trust in the care provider. The end result can be that it becomes more difficult to help the young person.

The research focuses on young people in need of special support, both from the social services and the mental health services. The aim is to help young people and their families. Finding ways to provide young people with support that is of real benefit to them.

The LANUPS study includes both an extensive survey of previous studies and extensive register and interview data. Researchers will interview social workers, youth psychiatric workers, young people and, where possible, their relatives.

Project results

LANUPS policy paper (in Finnish)