Seurakuntaopisto college is a nationwide educational institution whose campuses are located on the shores of Lake Tuusulanjärvi , in the Lepola district south of the center of Järvenpää ,in Pieksämäki , Lapua , Ruokolahti and Uusikaarlepyy . The parish college is a private vocational school and a folk high school .
Seurakuntaopisto training activities
Seurakuntaopisto organize social and health care, as well as the humanities and educational professional training. The parish college also offers apprenticeship services as well as in-service training. Agricola Working Life Services provides religious education and development services for schools and day care, as well as church child and family work. The parish college provides a lot of in-service training for employees and lay people of Christian organizations and parishes . In addition, the Parish College provides general education and offers various educational and meeting services. In connection with the parish college also workskindergarten Satakieli.
About 2,000 students study in the long-term education of the parish college. In addition, several hundred people participate in various courses and in-service training organized by the Parish College each year. The congregation Institute can perform a children’s instructor , practical nurse , youth and leisure instructor and home guardian vocational qualifications. In addition, you can complete several different vocational and special vocational degrees at the Parish College. These include, for example , the vocational qualifications for school attendance assistants , family day care and suntion , as well as the special vocational qualification for elderly work .
The parish college is both an educational institution and an organization that provides social services. The parish college is involved in various co-operation organizations and development processes in the field of diaconia, Christian education and culture. The parish college is part of the Diaconia Colleges network. In addition, the Parish College works closely with international organizations and educational networks operating in the fields of diaconia, education, and ecumenism.
On the same campus as the Parish College , there is the Church Education Center and the Eteva Municipality Association’s unit specializing in the development of the disability sector, in connection with which family services for the disabled are provided.