In the municipality of ‘s-Hertogenbosch live about 151.000 citizens. Development of talents of youth is an important topic for our municipality. We invest a lot in young people from 0 – 27. The quality of our school buildings and youth centres are outstanding; professional and voluntary efforts are on a high level. We share our experiences already more than 15 years in all of Europe. The turnover of our municipality is about € 650.000.000 a year.
The municipality of ‘s-Hertogenbosch has a long history on initiating and maintaining European networks and projects. We have a strong department of education and youth(care) policy, with a regional and national surplus value. The legal representative and the contact person have both outstanding skills and expertise on (project)management, policy making, (international) networking and presenting results. The legal representative participated in the EC expert group quality systems youth work and is one of the founding fathers of InterCity Youth.
De Poort youth center organizes activities for and through young people and believes that all young people must be able to grow in a safe environment, with sufficient opportunities for development in order to actively contribute to society.
De Poort youth center is an organization that organizes more than 400 activities annually for young people and young people. We are always looking for new enthusiastic youngsters. If you like to do something or organize, please contact, there is always an activity that you appeal to. The center is in the Maaspoort district and the target group is young people from 12 to 23 years old. The game evening on monday evening, sunday and sunday evening nights are from 19:00 to 22:30 on Thursday evening. We have 2 pop practice rooms for bands / dj’s, summer activities, musical events such as PoortPOP, band nights etc. But also Carnival, Impact, Jamsession, the many events on weekends, summer activities etc for young people aged 12+ 16+ and 18+ organized by and for young people are very successful.
The lifestyle challenge
The lifestyle challenge is a project that we have for 3 years. During this year we organise sport activities for youngsters. Besides that, they can participatie as a team in an obstacle run. They get a discount for it, but in return they have to commit to the project. This means they have to participate in a weekly training during 3 months. Every week they get a theme related to an healthy lifestyle, for example: sleeping. They have to think of a challenge within this for themselves (SMART goal). For the one participant this means going to bed by 23.00 o’ clock, for the other it means no cellphone in the bedroom. After the three weeks they parcipate in the obstacle run. Every year we have 10 - 20 youngsters who work towards an healthier lifestyle this way.
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