Student welfare in general upper secondary education
- Service
- Lappeenranta
- Public service
Student welfare promotes and maintains students’ learning, mental and physical health and social well-being as well activities supporting them.
South Karelia Social and Health Care District (Eksote) is responsible for organising pupil and student health care in the city of Lappeenranta. The aim is to carry out student welfare either within the educational institution or on nearby premises.
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You can contact the nurse, school doctor, school social worker or psychologist at your upper secondary school directly, either by telephone, by e-mail or via Wilma. The contact information is available in Wilma.
Background information
As a general upper secondary education student, you are entitled to student welfare services. Student welfare services promote your physical, mental and social health and wellbeing, thus helping to support your studies and learning. Student welfare includes the services provided by public health nurses, psychologists and the social workers of your educational institution.
As a general upper secondary education student, you are entitled to student welfare services even if you are not a resident of the municipality where you are studying. Your education provider is responsible for organising student welfare services. The wellbeing services county where the educational institution is located is responsible for organising the necessary psychologist and social worker services in student welfare. The wellbeing services county must also provide students with psychologist and social worker services even when the education is provided by a private actor or the state, unless the education provider decides to provide these services on its own and at its own cost, in full or in part.