Working group of helping youth associations

The Working Group of helping youth organizations (H7) is an association of youth organizations of the civil protection active organizations. Members are the Arbeiter-Samariter-Jugend , the DLRG-Jugend , the German Youth Fire Brigade , the German Youth Red Cross , the Johanniter-Jugend , the Malteser Jugend and the THW-Jugend .

On February 21, 2014 the seven youth associations adopted common guiding principles:
The youth associations

have come together in a working group to work together

to discuss, vote and jointly represent youth policy positions,
to ensure the representation of interests of the youth associations vis-à-vis politics and the public,
to advocate for the development of greater awareness of the members of the working group, their work and their offers,
To implement events for the public presentation of the working group,
to strengthen the cooperation of the association's child and youth work by networking offers of the youth associations at the respective levels,
to provide space for committed members and volunteers to get to know each other and to establish contacts,
Plan and conduct educational events,
To implement projects for the further development of child and youth work in the member associations,
to ensure regular exchange of information among members,
to work together in partnership in the knowledge of the different strengths and weaknesses of the member associations and to present all members in the agreed measures and
to actively support the respective decisions of the working group on the basis of trusting and committed cooperation.