German Youth Welfare Day
The German Youth Welfare Conference, which lasts several days , has been in existence since 1964. The organizer is the AGJ - former Working Group for Youth Care and Youth Welfare (AGJJ), then Working Group for Youth Welfare and now Working Group for Child and Youth Welfare. Since Essen (2008) the event has been called the German Child and Youth Welfare Day (DJHT).
purpose
Employees from all fields of work and specialist areas of child and youth welfare should come together via discussion forums, seminars, panel discussions, readings, workshops and in the open area of the respective exhibition grounds. Basically, it is about a mutual exchange of experiences between committed professionals from independent and public bodies. The event is often accompanied by additional offers for children and young people.
Rotation
Initially the event took place every two years, between 1978 and 1984 there was a six-year break. The aim is to have an interval of three to four years. The locations change and the mayors of the event city usually take over the patronage of the event and "invite".
AGJ
The cross-party, multi-agency and interdisciplinary working group was based in the federal capital Bonn and is based in the federal capital Berlin. The current chairman is Karin Böllert. The AGJ is mainly financed by the Federal Ministry for Youth. It publishes the magazine "Forum Jugendhilfe", which appears four times a year and costs € 20 as a subscription. Affiliated with the AGJ are many recognized independent youth welfare organizations and their umbrella organizations, some youth welfare offices, state youth welfare offices and the state youth associations of the federal states.
history
The 1st German Youth Welfare Day took place from May 10th to 13th, 1964 in Berlin (West). The 14 previous days with their respective working titles can be found in the list on the right . The 15th DJHT took place from June 3 to 6, 2014 in Berlin. The 16th DJHT took place from June 28th to 30th, 2017 in Düsseldorf.
criticism
In 1978 there were massive disruptions in the planned congress operations in Cologne because a large number of specialists from the home education sector protested. The opposition members opposed the affirmative approach of the event management, which had not planned and was not in a position to fulfill the social function of out-of-home care. To tackle the sometimes catastrophic living conditions for those affected in the facilities and the hair-raising methods of upbringing in many West German homes with physical and psychological violence against children. In view of the self-confident and prepared appearance of the critical social pedagogues, the organizers were quite helpless and ultimately had to cancel the congress.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. In focus - Children and Youth Welfare Day from: Forum Jugendhilfe, issue 1/2013, pp. 34–37
- ↑ https://www.jugendhilfeportal.de/djht/