Jepari Chat
- At IRC-Galleria’s Jepari community
- On Mondays from 4 pm till 6 pm
- Officers working at the juvenile crime squad of the Oulu police department use the chat service to advise, guide and support the youth in issues relating to police activity
- A youth worker hosts the chat and answers general questions
- Topics include police work and education, mopeds, legal issues , rights and intoxicants
- Close to 200 visitors per chat session
Jepari chat as a work community
- A real time chat service
- Employees in various posts
- Police officer and youth worker
- Employees are in constant contact with each other during the whole shift via a voip connection
- Enables a collective and multidisciplinary work community
- This work form is co-ordinated by the Youth Affairs Department of the City of Oulu and carried out in co-operation with the juvenile crime squad of the Oulu police department
- Service available for youth all over Finland, as there are no municipal boundaries on the web
- Employees can be reached through user profiles also when the Jepari chat is offline
Benefits
- Low threshold
- Reliability
- Preventative
- Real time, presence of adults
- Cost efficiency
- Ease of interaction
- Reach
- Working where young people are
- Equality