Youth work / youth education

  • Service description

    Youth work promotes the development of young people's personalities and prepares them for life in the community. It helps them to recognise, respect and experience values and strengthens their ability to act on their own responsibility. Youth work ties in with the interests of young people and is co-determined by them.

    Youth work is an independent part of youth welfare. It fulfils the educational and training tasks according to § 11 SGB VIII and represents the concerns and interests of young people in public.

    Specifically, youth work can be understood as a wide range of more or less educational, non-commercial, experiential and experience-based leisure activities for children and young people. These activities are characterised by a high degree of self-determination on the part of children and young people. In concrete terms, this is reflected in the fact that youth work is characterised to a particularly high degree by the voluntary commitment of young people.

    Youth work programmes are run by independent (youth associations, clubs, initiatives, etc.) and public providers (youth welfare offices).

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