Jugendamt#

Youth Affairs, Office of, authority in charge of public Youth Welfare. The Office of Youth Affairs is a department of the District Commission or of the municipal authorities, with its own statute (in Vienna it is called "Amt fuer Jugend und Familie"). Until the youth welfare law of 1989 came into effect, the Youth Affairs Office was mainly responsible for matters of guardianship (official guardianship of children born out of wedlock); since then it has focused on service-oriented youth welfare assistance.