!!!Jugendwohlfahrt

Youth Welfare, all measures listed under the Jugendwohlfahrtsgesetz 
(youth welfare law, JWG 1989) and the respective provincial youth 
welfare laws. Public youth welfare comprises juvenile welfare and 
mother-and-infant welfare. The purpose of youth welfare is to provide 
counselling and support for families; intervention is only permissible 
in cases where parents or legal guardians do not fulfil their legal 
obligations, particularly as laid down in the Civil Code. In detail, 
youth welfare comprises: 1) social services (e.g. counselling for 
mothers, day-nurseries, mothers-by-the-day, supervised residential 
units for juveniles); 2) foster care; 3) orphanages and other 
institutions for minors; 4) adoption services; 5) child guidance 
service (e.g. child-rearing counselling and family counselling, family 
therapy, family helpers). Each province is responsible for its 
respective youth welfare. Basically, the duties of youth welfare are 
divided between the provincial government and the district 
administrative authorities. ( Youth Affairs, Office of). Private youth 
welfare institutions such as  Caritas) are also enlisted for tasks 
which come under the category of private law.

!Literature
O. Lehner (ed.), Kinder- und Jugendrecht, Vienna 1993.


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