Working group for child and youth welfare
The Working Group for Child and Youth Welfare (AGJ) is the forum and network of federally central associations, organizations and institutions for free and public child and youth welfare in Germany . The legal entity of the AGJ is the "Board of Directors of the Working Group for Child and Youth Welfare eV"
The organization is based in Berlin . The current chairwoman is Karin Böllert .
The around 100 members work and work together with the aim of youth and specialist political communication and cooperation at the federal level, but also in a European and international context, and form a specialist political network in the six member groups or pillars of the AGJ, that is
- Federal youth associations and regional youth associations
- Central federal associations for voluntary welfare
- Federal Central Organizations for Youth Welfare
- Supreme youth and family authorities in the federal states
- Federal working group for state youth welfare offices
- Associations and organizations that are active at the federal level in the areas of personnel and qualification (basic, advanced and advanced training) for youth welfare.
Since it was founded in 1949, the Berlin-based association has seen its central task in bundling the organizational and technical structures of youth welfare at the federal level. It sees itself as representing the interests of child and youth welfare, as a cross-agency and cross-sectoral association and as a cooperative network in the interests of the unity of child and youth welfare. As the “German National Committee in Early Childhood”, the AGJ represents the area of early childhood education in the world organization “Organization Mondiale pour L'Éducation Prèscolaire”. In addition, she represents common positions of child and youth welfare in the organization “Eurochild - The European Network the Welfare and Rights of Children and Young People”, taking into account the special structure of the German youth welfare landscape. With a focus on questions of youth welfare law and family law, the AGJ also participates in regular specialist discussions with representatives of child and youth welfare from Switzerland, Austria and the Netherlands.
With proposals and recommendations for action as well as position papers on the work and practice of child and youth welfare and through various events on central topics and tasks, the AGJ advocates the further development and improvement of practical conditions in child and youth welfare.
The AGJ publishes the magazine “Forum Jugendhilfe” four times a year. This offers specialist articles, interviews and comments etc. on current topics in child and youth welfare and child and youth (welfare) policy. The main topics were, among other things, 25 years of SGB VIII and street youth in Germany.
The AGJ has organized the German Child and Youth Welfare Day every three to four years since 1964 . In addition, it awards the German Child and Youth Welfare Prize, endowed with a total of 15,000 euros, in the categories of media, practice, theory and science.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annual reports of the AGJ 2012, 2013, 2014 etc. ( Memento from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Statutes of the Working Group for Child and Youth Welfare - AGJ of April 3, 2014
- ↑ FORUM Jugendhilfe 1/2015, 2/2015
- ^ Statutes of the German Child and Youth Welfare Prize from 26./27. November 2008 ( Memento from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )