Our Forest Clinic (Metsävastaanotto®) has the Nature Empowerment Quality Label granted by Green Care Finland ry as an indication of the professionality, safety, and goal orientation of our nature services.

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Green Care Finland ry is a Finnish nationwide association that advocates activities that promote the wellbeing of people in nature and rural environments.

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In practice, the Nature Empowerment Quality Label means that our Forest Clinic service has:

🌿An operations and safety plan

For us, the operations and safety plan is a practical tool that we take with us to the Forest Clinic instead of letting it gather dust in a file cabinet.

The plan has been compiled in a way that each participant, even without the help of a guide, is capable of calling for necessary help and acting according to the instructions in an emergency.

In addition, the service has:
🌿 A safety document
🌿 A Green Care quality handbook

🌿 A self-monitoring plan that includes a description of the service

🌿 A written contract with all of our partners

For us, professionality and quality mean that

🌿 The Forest Clinic is led by, at least, one healthcare professional who masters basic first aid skills (completion of First Aid Course EA1, at the minimum)

🌿 The Forest Clinic is a goal-oriented professional endeavour.

 🌿 We constantly train our personnel.
🌿 We cooperate actively with various partners; at the moment, for example, we are taking part in an EU-funded project called Luonnosta Laatua (LuoLa, ‘quality from nature’), coordinated by Työtehoseura (TTS), a private organiser of vocational education, as well as the Rural Wellbeing Entrepreneurship Coordination Project (HyvinVoi Coordination), coordinated by the Natural Resources Institute Finland.

🌿We are committed to abide by the ethical code of Green Care Finland ry.

 
🌿We adhere to the code of healthcare ethics.

🌿We collect feedback from our clients systematically after each Forest Clinic session (Wellbeing Report) and we use this feedback to constantly develop our services.