What is Youth Aid?

Children and their parents or educators sometimes need help. For example, when there are problems growing up or raising children. The municipality can advise you about youth aid. Youth aid is for children up to the age of 17.

Do you have a child for whom you need support, help or Health ? Report this to the municipality:

Requesting youth assistance

When can you get what youth assistance?

You discuss with the Social Team what youth assistance is appropriate for your situation:

Basic help is accessible to everyone and can often begin quickly. For example, you can visit the library or a sports club. There are also volunteer organizations that can help. The counseling office can also provide information and advice in your situation. The Social Team helps you find your way to basic help.
Specialist help is not accessible to everyone and it may take a little longer before it can begin. If the Social Team thinks you need specialist help, you will be given a meeting with an expert from the municipality (youth counselor).

Are you receiving specialized help? Then in some situations you can get an amount to buy Health and Health yourself for your child. You will not get this personal budget (pgb) just like that.

Check out the 10 points that are important to getting a pgb

The municipality provides these forms of specialized youth assistance:

Personal care

Someone else can care for your child if your child is not able to do so well for himself or herself. For example, help with:

washing, brushing teeth and shaving
dressing and undressing
put on a prosthesis
food and drink
medicate
going to the toilet, putting on a pee bottle or changing incontinence materials
lie or sit down differently

The counselor will also look at what your child can still learn to do on his or her own.

Assistance in coping with disability or illness

Children can receive counseling if they are not coping well with their disability or illness. The goal of counseling is for your child to live as independently as possible.

Together with the municipality, you will look at what suits your child best: 1-on-1 guidance or guidance in a group. Your child may also be accompanied when traveling to day care.
In some situations, the rest of the family may also receive guidance.

Living somewhere else temporarily

Some children with disabilities or illnesses may live somewhere else temporarily. For example, if things are no longer going well at home because of your child's or your own problems. Or if it is no longer safe for your child to live at home.

Your child will then receive temporary help and Health at a residential facility where there is supervision day and night.

Foster care for children who can no longer live at home

In foster care, your child goes to live with another family: a foster home. This is for children who can no longer live at home at all.

The foster parents care for and raise your child. Your child stays with them for as long as needed. This may also be only on weekends, vacations or during the day.

There is voluntary and mandatory foster care:

In voluntary foster care, you consult with your child and social workers about whether your child will live with foster parents.
With mandatory foster care, the judge determines that foster care is needed and for how long. Then your permission is not always needed.

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