Families’ long-distance moves within countries can increase the risk of school drop out It is often assumed that families move to improve their economic and social prospects, and that these additional resources can…
The INVEST flagship programme is now a Joint Research Centre INVEST strengthens its position as a competence centre of the welfare state. INVEST’s operations will now be more permanent and…
INVEST Senior Researcher Kirsi Peltonen receives the ESTSS Young Minds Award INVEST’s Kirsi Peltonen has been awarded the ESTSS The Young Minds in Psychotraumatology Award. The award is given out by…
Adolescent mental health problems have a link to later receipt of social assistance across income quintiles Mental health problems in adolescence increase the likelihood of receiving social assistance in early adulthood. The link was found in…
KiVa Antibullying Program in Paraguay The KiVa Program has now been in use at the Liberty School, Paraguay, for over four years. It was not…
Success Stories: COVID-19 related Policy and Service Success INVEST reacted effectively to the sudden needs created by the Covid-19 pandemic. In spring 2020, Professor Christina Salmivalli chaired a…
The trend of single-person households is reflected in inequality — living in a relationship has a greater connection to income disparity than thought Partnering at all is a more significant factor in income inequality between households than who you partner with. Based on…
Two INVEST research projects given Academy of Finland grants INVEST researchers Mia Hakovirta from the University of Turku and Maria Vaalavuo from the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare…
Join the INVEST Ecosystem to be part of the network for a new welfare state The INVEST Welfare Research and Innovation Ecosystem brings together the efforts of 200 researchers and advances cross-disciplinary research. We also…
Let’s Cope Together website offers families ways to manage worries about coronavirus Finnish parents felt that the Let’s Cope Together website, which is based on behavioural therapy methods, helped them and their…
