Blue Ribbon Foundation Group
Blue Ribbon Foundation Group is a values-based expert in homelessness and substance abuse services. We do impactful work to end homelessness and to help vulnerable people.
So that there is a place for everyone
In the Blue Ribbon Foundation Group, non-profit development activities are carried out by Blue Ribbon Foundation, founded in 1957, while supported housing services are provided by the social enterprise Blue Ribbon Ltd. Outpatient substance abuse treatment is offered through Suuntasi Päihdepalvelut Oy, a subsidiary of Blue Ribbon Ltd.
The Blue Ribbon Foundation develops new low-threshold models of support and integrates them into clients’ everyday lives through its activities. In addition, it works to amplify the voices of people in vulnerable situations in society.
Blue Ribbon Ltd provides supported housing services. Its services include client-centred supported housing as well as communal and intensive service housing in Housing First and substance-free units. In addition, the company provides temporary and emergency accommodation, home-based housing support.
Blue Ribbon Foundation Group’s services implement an applied social-housing approach. It covers all work with people who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or who have experienced homelessness in the past, to address those psycho-social or practical challenges experienced by the customer that put their housing at risk.
The path model, which allows the resident to move flexibly from one service or type of housing to another, is implemented in the Blue Ribbon Foundation Group’s housing services units (ca. 370 units), for which ARA grants and subsidies have been received, and in dispersed housing (ca. 410 units), for which the Blue Ribbon Foundation has received investment support from STEA.
We are one of Finland’s biggest actors operating under the housing-first principle. We currently have operations in Helsinki and in the wellbeing services counties of West Uusimaa, Vantaa and Kerava, Central Uusimaa, Southwest Finland and Pirkanmaa.
About 250 social and healthcare professionals work at the Blue Ribbon Foundation Group, which is headquartered in Helsinki.
We are a member association of the Finnish Blue Ribbon .