Jepari -chat

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