Youth work / youth education

Youth work promotes the development of young people's personalities and prepares them for life in the community. It helps them to recognize, 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 performs the educational and training tasks in accordance with § 11 SGB VIII and represents the concerns and interests of young people in public.

In concrete terms, youth work can be understood as a wide range of more or less pedagogical, non-commercial, experiential and experience-related activities in the leisure time of children and young people. These activities are characterized 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 characterized to a particularly high degree by the voluntary commitment of young people.

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

• Hessian Youth Council
• Local youth welfare offices

• SBG VIII - Child and Youth Welfare Act
• HKJGB - Hessian Child and Youth Welfare Code