About Elegast Services per field Services by location SMART THROUGH Consult our calendar Elegast newsletters HCA newsletters Neighborhood newspaper Den Dam Consult our vacancies Copyright © ELEGAST 2013 Elegast is a dynamic organization in Antwerp that focuses on young people and their families in its assistance and services. This dynamic implies that, based on experience in the field, a response is made to the new needs and requirements of society. This, however, without losing sight of the quality of the assistance offered. In its thirty years of existence, Elegast has grown into an organization that offers about 24 forms of assistance. Guidance of young people who cannot stay in their home environment, who are neglected or abused, guidance of parents, preventive neighborhood activities, family guidance, holidays for the underprivileged, guidance of young people who committed criminal behavior, ... These are just a few of the range of offered assistance. Elegast annually reaches more than 13,000 young people and their respective families. The most important goal within the care provision is to support the clients and to give them the opportunity to grow as a person in a climate of freedom, respect and responsibility. Elegast wants to offer the client, in an atmosphere of trust and dialogue, the means he needs to integrate and participate in our society.