ABOUT THE EPISODE:  In Finland they do a lot of inspiring things in the field of youth work. One of that is the Crisi Chat at Sekasin Chat, we already covered in previous episodes. At Sekasin Collective they do other very interesting things too. They operate Discord-based Sekasin Gaming, which is Finland's largest professionally moderated online youth space and community on Discord. The service is targeted especially for those young people, who are hard to reach by traditional means, marginalised or at risk of marginalisation. 

We talked with Joosua Valkeakunnas, who told us about the work they do in this online youth club.  He shared what they do on the servers, and how can we picture their service.

I believe this world Joosua opens up in this episode is quite new for a lot of people, and lot of professionals working with youth, and at the same time, it is very thought provoking and inspiring. 

ABOUT OUR GUEST:  Joosua Valkeakunnas is a youth worker and the founder of Sekasin Gaming / Mental Gaming.

SEGMENTS OF THE EPISODE:  

00:00 - Introduction to the episode

3:00 - An online ‘youthclub’ - Mental Gaming

6:00 - Who are the gamers? Members of Mental Gaming community

11:00 - Why do the gamers join? About the risks and needs of members

15:00 -  How did they start a mental health support on a gamer chat platform? 

19:30 - How do they work with mental health? 

22:30 - What do they do with trolling? 

25:00 - What do they do with opinions they don’t like? 

27:30 - How do they cover the moderation? 

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