VVJ Vereniging Vlaamse jeugddiensten (association of municipal youth services), founded in 1979 :
- supports local youth services / local youth officers
AND (since 2010) local alderman for youth AND (since 2014) local youth councils
- is a member organization of municipalities (320 are member, only 5 are not member)
- is a service platform for local youth policy
Mission VVJ: we go for better, more and integral local youth policy. 303 municipalities (flanders = 308 municipalities) are a member. It means that VVJ supports more than 800 youth officers. VVJ has a staff of 16 FTE.
VVJ has all the big cities in Flanders as members and as such we are one of the most logic partners in this Intercity-network.
www.vvj.be
Partners in the VVJ network takin part in this project are;
Aalst
Evergem
Geraardsbergen
Puurs