Municipality of Hilversum: applying for youth care for your child

What do you need to know

• Youth support is help with parenting problems, intellectual disabilities and psychological problems
• Youth support is for children and young people up to 18 years, sometimes up to 23 years
• The municipality is responsible for youth support. This is regulated in the Youth Law
• The amount of help your child receives varies greatly from situation to situation. It can go from 1 hour a week until care is almost completely taken over
• Youth support is usually outpatient. This means that your child lives at home and receives help by appointment. A care provider will come to your home for this. Or at school. Or your child goes to an organization for help during the day
• Sometimes it is better if your child lives (temporarily) elsewhere. For example, in a foster family, family home or other care organisation. This is called youth support with residence

Types of youth support

• Youth support for a disability: Help for a (mild) intellectual disability, sensory disability, physical disability, somatic disorder or psychiatric disorder
• Mental health care (youth mental health care): Help with a mental illness
• Day spending: Spending the day at an organization without care tasks
• Day treatment: Spending the day at an organization with care tasks
• Stay-at-home care: Someone temporarily takes over the upbringing and care. This is called respite care
• Foster care: Foster parents (temporarily) take over the upbringing and care
• Stay in a youth institution: Temporary voluntary or forced living from home with an organization with care tasks

• If you need help raising your child, please contact Jeugd en Gezin first
• If the help of Jeugd en Gezin does not solve your problem, contact the Sociaal Plein of the municipality, together with Jeugd en Gezin

How it continues

• You have a meeting with a youth counselor from the Sociaal Plein. This person will look for the best solution together with you and can decide whether you need youth support
• You will be forwarded to the organization that can best help you and make an appointment with them

See the possible costs on Hilversum.nl.