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Finnish homelessness work has a long tradition. For quite a long time Finnish homelessness work was largely based on the so-called stairwell model all the way until the 2010s when Housing First model emerged. The arrival of Housing First model has had a lot of effect on the everyday work of professionals in the field homelessness work. Therefore, I’ve decided to pose the following question in my study: What kind of challenges and possibilities lie in multiprofessional collaboration of housing counselling, real estate management and rent control in the context of a Housing First based work. It is worth pointing out though, that Housing First based work entails much more than just the work of housing counselling, real estate management and rent control. Despite this I’ve decided to focus my research to studying multiprofessional collaboration of the three previously mentioned actors in the context of Housing First based work. The material studied was collected by interviewing housing counsellors, real estate managers and rent controllers working at Y-Foundation. The interviews were carried out as theme interviews in groups so, that housing counsellors were interviewed as one group, real estate managers as one group and likewise rent controllers as one group. Narrative analysis and more specifically an analysis of expectations was utilized to produce the results. The research material indicated, that the interviewees were particularly concerned over questions about shared responsibility between professionals, flow of information, professional roles as well as differences in views. In many ways these themes resembled those observed in previous research about multiprofessional collaboration. Moreover, the interviewees viewed the employer as a pivotal actor when it comes to strengthening multiprofessional collaboration and knowledge about Housing First based work.

Objective of the study. The objective of this study was to find out what kind of cooperation with teaching assistants is ideal from a teachers' point of view. Furthermore the research covers teachers' experiences about teaching assistants' roles and status. In addition, the study compared how teachers and school assistants perceived the ideal of cooperation as well as the role and role of the assistants by using previously collected material. Methods. The study was conducted in spring 2017 by interviewing four teachers. All the interviewees worked at the same school in Southern Finland. Two of them worked in general education and two of them worked in special needs education. Their work experience was between five and thirty-five years. The data was analyzed by a qualitative content analysis. The previously collected material was collected in spring 2015 for the Bachelor's Thesis. It included four interviews of school assistants' who worked at the same school as the teachers. Conclusions. The teachers experienced that ideal cooperation requires explicit common rules, clear roles, interaction, trust in another and commitment to the work. The school assistants underlined target-oriented teamwork and the need for teacher's guidance more than the teachers. Both the teachers and the teaching assistants wanted more time to discuss. Both professions admitted that they have some hierarchy between them in some situations, but they also felt as equal colleagues. Hierarchy was not considered only as a bad thing either. The teachers underlined, that the most important thing in school assistant's job is to support the pupils. Both the teachers and the school assistants admitted that even though a school assistant gets plenty of responsibility at their job, all of the teachers can't make most of the assistant's potential. The school assistants had to suffer more lack of appreciation than the teachers. Luckily they also got respect for what they did at work.