75 years of the Federal Child and Youth Plan: Anniversary with a mission for the future!

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The Federal Child and Youth Plan (KJP) is 75 years old - a reason to celebrate and an obligation at the same time. Since 1949, the KJP has been the central funding instrument for child and youth welfare at federal level, ensuring that children and young people can develop their personalities, take on responsibility and experience democracy in practice. It has given generations of young people freedom, opportunities and prospects. The initiativeKJP would like to congratulate the organisation on this anniversary - and combines its congratulations with a clear appeal: those who have worked successfully for 75 years have proven their relevance and effectiveness and deserve to be strengthened - even with new government responsibilities.

Reliable funding instead of a wobbly course

In the coalition agreement, the federal government promised to increase and dynamically organise the KJP. "This promise of reliable, predictable and adequate funding for the federal infrastructure of child and youth welfare must be kept," declare the member organisations of the initiativeKJP (AGJ, AdB, BAG OKJA, BKJ, DBJR, dsj, GEMINI).

After all, programmes such as political education, international youth exchange, sports and cultural education, self-representation of young people, further training and networking for child and youth welfare professionals can only develop their full impact if they do not have to worry about funding year after year.

75 years - a good reason to celebrate, but no reason to rest on our laurels

The KJP is the foundation for strong, solidary and democratic co-operation. It shows what is possible when politicians take the interests of young people seriously. Now it is important not to slow down this successful model, but to secure and strengthen it: with a dynamisation that withstands the cost increases and creates planning security, and with an increase that meets the growing professional requirements.

The initiativeKJP calls for the anniversary of the KJP to be seen as a starting signal for the future. Because one thing is certain: without a strong KJP, youth policy and intergenerational justice will remain just a promise - with it, they will become reality.

About theKJP initiative

The initiativeKJP is a coalition of seven national associations that are funded by the Federal Child and Youth Plan (KJP). The initiative includes

  • Working Group for Child and Youth Welfare - AGJ
  • Working Group of German Educational Centres (AdB)
  • Federal Working Group for Open Child and Youth Work (BAG OKJA)
  • Federal Association for Cultural Child and Youth Education (BKJ)
  • German Federal Youth Council (DBJR)
  • German Sports Youth (dsj)
  • Joint initiative of political youth education organisations (GEMINI)

Contact: initiativeKJP central e-mail: initiativeKJP[at]bundesnetz.de

The contact details of the participating organisations can be found in the PDF.

Themen: Pressemitteilung Nationale Jugendpolitik