Life-long preventive care

Sufficient support for children in early childhood education
- Secure psychologist services equally in early childhood education regardless of where children live
- Amend the Early Childhood Education and Care Act to include psychologists as part of the core early childhood education staff
School psychologists belong to schools
- Ensure that the transfer of student welfare services from municipalities to wellbeing services counties goes smoothly and the mandatory staff ratios are enforced
Student services throughout the learning path
- Legislate study psychologist services at institutions of higher education
Focus on maintaining working capacity
- Define occupational healthcare psychologists as occupational healthcare professionals instead of the current specialist status
- Improve workplace well-being at the organizational level
Support for elderly’s mental health
- Provide low-threshold mental health support for elderly

Equal access to mental health services for all

Ensure access to primary mental health services in the wellbeing services counties
- Investing in prevention of mental health problems
- Include extensive mental health services in the treatment time guarantee
- Improve availability of psychologist services in primary healthcare
Conserve access to rehabilitative psychotherapy equitable all over Finland
- Retain the Social Insurance Institution of Finland (Kela), as the provider of rehabilitative psychotherapy and demanding medical rehabilitation

Mental health services must be allocated dedicated resources in the wellbeing services counties
- Designated funding for mental health
- Ensure jobs in healthcare and social welfare services are attractive
Availability of skilled labour requires investments in education
- Support psychologists’ internships with state funding
- Make specialist psychologists’ training free of charge
Restructure psychotherapists’ education in two levels
- Transition to a two-level psychotherapist education system in line with the Swedish model