Service id: 9408
Service title: Therapeutic work for families with infants
Service name synonyms: Reception for families with infants, ensuring early interaction, post-natal depression and depression during pregnancy, demanding infants, parenthood of an infant/in a family with infants, becoming a mother or father, baby blues
Service headline: We support parents expecting a child or families with concerns about interaction with an infant under the age of one.
Service description: As a parent you may experience uncertainty, worry, anxiety or depressive symptoms during or after the baby is born. The infant may cry a lot or be restless or difficult to calm down or have challenges with sleeping and eating. Therapeutic work for families with infants supports the interaction between the parent and the baby and the baby's development. Parents have the opportunity to work on their parenting skills, as well as their relationship with the infant, their partner and other loved ones. Our forms of work include meetings with a parent and a baby as well as couple, family and group meetings. If necessary, we can make home visits. We offer therapeutic work for families with infants if the support provided by family members or maternity and child health clinics and other basic services is not enough. If you are interested in therapeutic work for families with infants, please contact social counselling for families with children or submit an application in Maisa. Send a message via Maisa by selecting Social Services > Submit an Application/Services for families with children. We will respond to you within three working days. If we cannot reach you by phone, you will get a reply in Maisa. You can also send a message using the 'Need help?' online form. You can apply for therapeutic work for families with infants during your 20th pregnancy week, at the earliest. The service is free of charge. .
Service target groups: Children and Families
Service prerequisites: Therapeutic work for families with infants is intended for expecting families and for families with a child under the age on one year, when the worries concerning the birth of the infant and the following months are reflected in the parenthood and the relationship between the parent and the infant. The assistance of the reception for families with infants is necessary, when the support by loved ones or the maternity clinic and other basic services in no longer sufficient. A parent's substance abuse or an acute domestic violence problem is an obstacle to the therapeutic work. The service is only for citizens of Helsinki.

There is one errand service linked to this service:

Errand service type: Providing advice
Errand service name: Social counseling for families with children
Errand service description: We help when you need help with parenting problems, parenting challenges or stressful everyday life.
Errand service target groups: Children and Families
Contact channel type: E-services
Contact channel name: I need help-online form
Contact channel link title: Go to Omaolo
Contact channel link URL: https://www.omaolo.fi/palvelut/terveystarkastus?lang=en

Contact channel type: E-services
Contact channel name: Maisa online service
Contact channel link title: Go to Omaolo
Contact channel link URL: https://www.omaolo.fi/palvelut/terveystarkastus?lang=en

Contact channel type: Telephone
Contact channel name: Social counseling telephone service for families with children in Finnish
Contact channel availability: Open Mon-Fri 09-12
Contact channel phone number: +358931015454 
Contact channel call charge: mobile call charge / local network charge

Contact channel type: Telephone
Contact channel name: Social counseling telephone service for families with children in Swedish
Contact channel availability: Open Mon 09-12
Contact channel phone number: +358931015454 
Contact channel call charge: mobile call charge / local network charge