Youth association

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A youth association is an organizational association of young people with common interests or goals that goes beyond local borders. The term youth organization is largely identical. It usually refers to youth associations that feel they belong to a certain adult association or see it as its youth organization.

Youth associations are organizations of youth self-organization and interest representation . At the same time, youth associations are educational institutions, i. H. social provisions for socialization and education in adolescence. They are therefore typical "intermediate organizations", i. H. they convey the interests of young women and young men into society (youth policy interest representation) and, conversely, exercise social control and integration interests towards young people (educational institutions).

Larger youth associations often have full-time employees who take on organizational tasks or do educational work in the youth association. Typical offers from youth associations are group lessons, weekend and holiday camps. But also open youth work and youth social work are part of the range of services. Youth associations offer informal and non-formal education, open spaces and experimentation space for young people, primary prevention and social integration as well as community. Due to the different association profiles, they offer many specific identification options for children and young people. Youth associations do this due to their special structural features: They are voluntary, honorary, self-organized, partisan for children and young people and value-oriented.

Germany

The historical roots of youth association work lie in the youth movement . The legal basis for the work of the youth associations is given in § 11 and § 12 Child and Youth Welfare Act (KJHG). If the association is active in the sense of youth welfare and pursues charitable purposes, it can obtain state recognition in accordance with Apply for § 75 KJHG as an independent youth welfare agency. (The Child and Youth Welfare Act / SGB VIII regulates further details ).

Every youth association can apply for membership in the respective city or district youth association ; the criteria for this are set out in the statutes of the individual youth associations. If the association is spread across the region, this also applies to the district and state youth councils and the German Federal Youth Council .

Classic youth associations are z. As the scout frets, the youth organizations of the relief agencies , the religious youth organizations (such as the Federation of German Catholic Youth , the Association of Evangelical youth or youth associations of parishes), Christian non-denominational youth organizations ( YMCA , with 45 million of the youth organization with worldwide the most members) or the sports youth .

Party-affiliated youth organizations are z. As the Junge Union , the Young Socialists , the Green Youth , the Young Liberals , the left youth [ 'solid] , the HintnerJugend or Boy alternative . Non-partisan youth associations are z. As the Naturfreundejugend , the early works of the AWO , the Young European Federalists , the DGB youth , the falcon , the Workers' Samaritan youth (ASJ) or BDAJ .

In the Federal Republic of Germany and Austria almost all political parties have a youth organization: see list of youth organizations in Germany , list of youth organizations in Austria .

Switzerland

The majority of the youth associations in Switzerland are grouped together in the Swiss Association of Youth Associations (SAJV). Political youth associations in Switzerland are called Jungpartei .

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Wiktionary: Youth organization  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations