Resources for Green Care services’ clients and procurement managers
This page contains links to various materials that are useful for anyone interested in Green Care — for example social and health care service providers and pedagogical sector actors looking to offer nature based services to their clients.
Some of the materials are multi-lingual while some are only available in one language. The flag icons next to the materials indicate whether they are available in English, Finnish or Swedish.
What is Green Care?
Green Care: Hyvinvointia luonnosta (video, 2021)
Green Care: Välbefinnande från naturen (video, 2021)
Naturens betydelse för hälsan (webinar, 2020)
The basics and criteria of Green Care (webinar, 2019)
Nature’s effect on health and wellbeing (webinar, 2020)
Naturen och skogens inverkan på människors hälsa (webinar, 2020)
Perustietoja Green Caresta ja siihen kouluttautumisesta (slideshow, 2019)
Miksi luontoperustaisia palveluita? (slideshow, 2021)
NordicNaBS -hankkeen loppuwebinaari (webinar, 2022)
Review of Nordic Nature-based Service Models (report, 2021)
SROI-arviointiselostus Soite Green Care -työtoiminta kehitysvammaisille asiakkaille (report, 2022)
Final report in Finnish and in Swedish (report, 2022)
Examples of Green Care services
Pilottiwebinaari osa 1: Keski-Pohjanmaan pilotti (webinar, 2022)
Pilottiwebinaari osa 2: Pohjois-Pohjanmaan pilotti (webinar, 2022)
Pilottiwebinaari osa 3: Lapin pilotti (webinar, 2022)
Iäkkään hyvinvoinnin edistäminen luontolähtöisellä menetelmällä (webinar, 2020)
Guided relaxation in nature environment (webinar, 2019)
Maatilojen eläinavusteiset palvelut (webinar, 2020)
Care Farming part 1: Introduction and Care Farming in Finland (webinar, 2019)
Care farming part 2: Grön arena in Sweden (webinar, 2019)
Care farming part 3: Norway (webinar, 2020)
Care farming in the Netherlands (webinar, 2019)
Feeling like home in the nature of Oulu (case summary, 2020)
Mindfulness service piloting in the nature of Oulu (case summary, 2020)
Piloting of a remote animal-assisted service (case summary, 2020)
Social pedagogical equestrian activities for clients in Mother and Child Home and Shelter (case summary, 2020)
Children and adolescents at Alitalo’s Farm (case summary, 2020)
The Empowering Nature Moments pilot (case summary, 2020)
Nature Creates pilot (case summary, 2020)
Explore the Nature service pilot (case summary, 2020)
Things to consider
Kuljetukset Green Care –palveluja järjestettäessä (webinar, 2020)
Niskalenkki byrokratiasta 1: Hankinnat (webinar, 2020)
Niskalenkki byrokratiasta 2: Viranomaisohjaus (webinar, 2020)
Niskalenkki byrokratiasta 3: Sopimukset (webinar, 2020)
Instruction cards
All instruction cards in Finnish and Swedish (PDF file, 2022)