Taina Riipinen

Taina Riipinen Oy runs Perhekoti Villa Anita, a professional family home in Rusko, Varsinais-Suomi. Daily work centres on shared everyday life between adults and the children placed in the home, and the home can also support a child's biological family in reaching their goals.

The home's customers are child welfare placements. The responsible owner, Taina Riipinen, has worked in child welfare since the early 1990s and has been a full-time entrepreneur since 2009, offering work supervision, development projects for work communities and study trips for child welfare professionals (11 trips to European countries from 2008 to 2019). Clients of this work have included child welfare units, institutions and social workers across Finland.

The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Rusko. The home is staffed by a social educator (40% of working time), a practical nurse (60%) and a nurse who handles medical care on an hourly basis.

Product: Residential family home care for children placed by child welfare services, with a structured daily routine, schooling support and hobbies.