Itla’s three impact goals
The impact goals describe the long-term social changes that Itla is working towards. We carry out the foundation’s mission and promote our vision of the future we are striving for through these objectives. The impact goals support each other, and they are shared across all of our activities.
Child-oriented growing environments and services: Child-oriented growing environments and services support the resilience of children, young people and families through cooperation, impacts and renewal.
A child- and family-friendly Finland: Children, young people and parents actively contribute to the future. Respect for children, young people, families and future generations is reflected in attitudes, public discourse, decision-making and concrete actions.
Distributing information that considers children’s perspective: High-quality and diverse information that accounts for children’s perspective increases understanding in decision-making and promotes the wellbeing of children and young people in a changing world.
How our work leads to change
Achieving Itla’s impact goals requires comprehensive, systemic changes. These changes are not made by Itla alone – they are the result of several measures and changes on different levels and require extensive cooperation. The strategy illustrates our view of Itla’s role and our ways of working towards the desired changes.
We refine and communicate information on current and future phenomena, related solutions and effective methods to support decision-making and practical development. We promote the use of high-quality child-oriented information that consists of multiple sources in decision-making. These sources include research, predictive information, assessments and experience-based data. We operate as part of ecosystems where we develop impactful ways of compiling and using information.
We advance the renewal of local, regional and national growing environments and services to make them child- and family-oriented. We work with actors who affect the wellbeing of children, young people and families to support the actors’ willingness to change and their ability to evolve as well as their cooperation, co-development, and learning. Our work focuses on proactive and early-stage support for wellbeing.
We strengthen constructive discussion about a child- and family-friendly society and its future.
Contact us
If you have any questions about Itla’s strategy, please contact CEO Katri Vataja.