The Youth Council of Castilla y León is a Public Entity of Private Law endowed with its own legal personality and full capacity to fulfill its purposes. It started working 37 years ago with the purpose of promoting initiatives that ensure the active participation of Castilian and Leonese youth in decisions and measures that concern them. It also represents all of organized forms of youth participation integrated in it, at the moment formed by 94 regional entities. The CJCyL is the valid interlocutor of youth with the Regional Administration and any public or private institution.