Empowering disabled people to follow their dreams.

1. DIY - DO IT YOURSELF
Lyhty NGO. Project co-ordinator Markus Vähälä &
Musician, Business coach Sami Helle

2. LYHTY RY
 Introduction
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMOJNtDTv-k
Helsingin lyhytaikaiskoti ja työpaja
Lyhty ry
 140 clients
 70 professionals

3. LYHTY RY
 Housing services, workshops,
volunteer projects and education
 Nursing science in social service
 Doing oriented view on wellbeing
 www.lyhty.fi

4. DO IT YOURSELF!
 How can people with disabilites can do:
 Politics, Business, Work, Culture,
Sports, Relationships and family,
Equality in living
 Human rights, the right to decide
 Not disability, a person
 Making laws in an inclusive way.
UN resolution on the rights for people
with disablities in Finland?

5. SAMI THE POLITICIAN 1
 www.samihelle.fi
 The people with disabilities should be
active in politics!
 Choose your party and join the party!
 Sami as a candidate in municipal
elections
 Markus as a campaign manager

6. SAMI THE POLITICIAN 2
 Sami as a member of the local
council of the Centre Party
 Create influence.
 Create economically viable solution
based policies.

7. SAMI THE POLITICIAN 3
 Do the hard work and be open about
your model
 Let others steal your ideas
 Let others join the campaign

8. NEW BEAT OY
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7Q5
 Business coaching with a difference
 ReDoMe –coaching method: Doing,
talking and writing
 Working with strengths and
possibilities
 Solution based strategy

9. NEW BEAT OY
 Creative methods in coaching: music,
yoga, art and drama.
 Work supervision services
 Working as equals: Sami and Markus
 www.newbeat.fi
work as a ReDoMe –coach:
heini@newbeat.fi

10. RADIO VALO
 www.radiovalo.fi
 Media as a tool for inclusion
 Satakieli and HundrED
www.hundred.org/fi/projects/satakieli
set-uutiset

11. RADIO VALO
 areena.yle.fi/1-3803180
 KiviMedia
 @radiovalo
instagram.com/kivimedia/

12. PERTTI KURIKAN NIMIPÄIVÄT
 The story
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3A4-
xfEoY8
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=v4Y0HOPL5GU
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-
eZCna0X9w

13. CITIZEN NETWORK
 Doing together, building better
communities
 Centre for Welfare Reform
www.centreforwelfarereform.org
 Join Synerga ry www.synerga.fi
 Join Citizen Network
www.citizen-network.org/network-
map/

14. PERSPECTIVES 1
 Not what you as professionals can do
to people!
 How can you support people to do
their thing?
 How can we raise and support
innovation coming from people with
disabilities?

15. PERSPECTIVES 2
 What is citizenship today?
 How can we maintain and improve
democracy and build better
communities together?

16. ERIKOISJOUKKO
 Sitra competition. Cool 1.000.000€
 Providing service to the hidden needs
of the companies
 Paid work for people with disabilities,
no problems for the clients

17. ERIKOISJOUKKO 2
 SEAB seabin
 HJK and TELIA 5G stadium
 Allas Pool