Applying for youth care for your child
Do you want to to apply for youth care (jeugdhulp) for your child? For example, because your child needs extra care or support? You can apply for this at your municipality. You can also contact a youth team (jeugdteam) directly. A youth team supports young people and their families when they need help with growing up and parenting.
You can use a personal budget (persoonsgebonden budget – PGB) to pay for youth care. A PGB is an amount of money that can be used to purchase care or support for personal reasons.
Contact your municipality for youth care for your child. Your municipality provides advice on youth care and will determine the best kind of support for your child. It will do so together with you and your child. The municipality also ensures that your child has access to youth care.
Every municipality implements its youth support differently. Some municipalities have a neighbourhood team (wijkteam) in each neighbourhood, while others have a youth and family centre (Centrum jeugd en gezin).
You can also directly contact your neighbourhood team. A school, GP or sports club can also refer you. The municipality also has a list of youth teams and neighbourhood teams.
This is how it works for you
Here is some information from your municipality.
Municipality of Hof van Twente: Applying for youth care for your child
Below you can read how you can submit an application for youth assistance to the municipality of Hof van Twente.
NB. You can only apply for youth assistance if you live in the Netherlands and are registered with a municipality.
1. Help in your immediate vicinity?
If your child needs help, it is best to first look in his or her familiar environment to see if help can be offered. Consider, for example, help from a grandpa or grandma, a teacher or counselor at school, or someone else you trust. If it is not possible to solve the problems in this way, there may be an organization in Hof van Twente that can help.
2. Help from an organization in Hof van Twente
If the problems are too big and it is not possible to offer your child help within the familiar home situation, organizations such as Salut, Loes or the GGDTwente can help you. Salut is a welfare organization in Hof van Twente. There you will find a wide range of help for children and young people. Loes offers help with your child's upbringing. The school doctors work together within the GGD and you can go to them for questions about your child's health. Do you find it difficult to determine which organization you should contact? Then ask the municipality's Care (youth) team for help (telephone 0547 – 858585).
3. Your application to the municipality
If you have not been able to ask for help in your immediate vicinity or via one of the organizations mentioned above (under 2 above), you can request help from the municipality of Hof van Twente. Such a request for help works as follows:
Application
An application will be processed if you, as a parent, ask for help yourself. Others can only register children with the municipality if the parents are aware and willing to cooperate. If it is not entirely clear where the care needs lie and which help is appropriate and possible, you can always ask us for advice.
If you have any questions, please contact the Care (youth) team. We discuss your questions/registration within the team on a weekly basis and see whether the use of a director/consultant is necessary. You can contact us from Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on telephone number 0547-858585. If you are not yet receiving help, you can fill in an application form. If you are already receiving help (from an indication or decision), and this will soon expire, you can also complete the application form. We ask you to send this form at least 8 weeks before the end date of the indication or decision.
Home visit
If a director/consultant is deployed, a home visit will be made for a new application. A support plan is then drawn up together with the family. With that plan, all questions are answered and it is determined whether care or help is needed. The director/consultant will check whether the organizations mentioned above under 2 can help you. If this is not possible, you will receive a decision for more specialized care. This is called 'indicated assistance'.
Contracted providers
The municipality of Hof van Twente has a contract with a number of youth care providers. We call this youth care 'care in kind' (ZIN). This means that the municipality arranges and pays for this youth assistance. Sometimes other care providers offer care in kind. Then ask if they have a contract with one of the providers on the list of the municipality of Hof van Twente.
The “Regulation Youth Assistance Hof van Twente” states the facilities and conditions to qualify for this.
Apply for a personal budget
In certain cases you can get a personal budget (PGB). This allows you to purchase specific help from the institution of your choice.
For more information about payment of a PGB, please click on this link.
For more information about the conditions of a PGB, please click on this link.
You can request help via the digital application form. Clicking on this link will take you to the application page.
You can log in with your own Digi-D and then you can fill in the entire application form and send it digitally. After receiving the form, a director/consultant will contact you.
You can also request help via the PDF request form.
You can email the completed PDF form to info@hofvantwente.nl or send it to Municipality of Hof van Twente, Postbus 54, 7470 AB Goor.
Do you have questions about youth care? You can reach the youth directors/counsellors on working days from 09:00 to 13:00 on telephone number +31 547 - 85 85 85.
Or contact directly:
You can reach the youth directors/counselors on working days from 09:00 to 13:00 on telephone number +31 547 - 85 85 85.
You do not have to pay a personal contribution for youth care.
An employee of the Care (youth) team will contact you within 8 weeks. He or she will then make an appointment with you and possibly your child(ren).
You can object to the decision on youth care. This is possible on the basis of the General Administrative Law Act. You must lodge an objection within six weeks of the date on which the decision was sent.
You can send a letter to the Municipal Executive in which you state why you do not agree with this decision. The address is Postbus 54, 7470 AB in Goor.
Questions about this topic?
Contact the Municipality of Hof van Twente