The duties of the Costa Rican State towards young persons shall be the following:
Health:
- a)To provide comprehensive health care, through the implementation of programs focused on the promotion, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of young persons, which include topics related to adequate nutrition, physical, mental, sexual, and reproductive health, as well as counseling to avoid drug dependency and drug addiction, among others.
(Thus amended the preceding subsection by Article 3 of Law No. 9155 of July 3, 2013) b) To encourage the permanence of young persons in their family and community nucleus, through training at all levels.
- c)To promote inclusive measures and support for young persons with disabilities, their families, and the volunteers who assist them.
(Thus amended the preceding subsection by Article 3 of Law No. 9155 of July 3, 2013) Work:
- d)To organize young persons into productive groups of different types.
- e)To develop training programs so that young persons acquire knowledge and skills, in the field of formulating and executing productive projects.
- f)To advise young persons so that they can have access to soft sources of financing.
- g)To organize a job bank, through which labor activities that can be performed by young persons are identified, and to guide them so that they present job offers.
- h)To promote campaigns for the labor insertion of young persons in the public and private sectors and to promote credit policies that allow their inclusion in the country's productive development.
(Thus amended the preceding subsection by Article 3 of Law No. 9155 of July 3, 2013) Education:
- i)To encourage young persons to participate and remain in general basic, secondary, technical, para-university, and university education programs.
- j)To create free courses in higher education centers, scheduled for the beneficiaries of this Law and directed towards them.
- k)To formulate educational programs specialized in the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of persons with addictions.
- l)To formulate educational programs specialized in stimulating the expansion of scientific and technological development.
- m)To establish national campaigns to stimulate knowledge and the promotion of local culture and of positive values and attitudes for national development.
- n)To guarantee education under equal conditions of quality and at the highest level for all young persons.
- ñ)To ensure that at all levels, educational programs are adapted to the needs of the labor supply and the needs of the country's integral development.
- o)To guarantee access to favorable conditions for obtaining housing for young persons.
(Thus added the preceding subsection by Article 3 of Law No. 9151 of August 27, 2013, "Acceso de Vivienda para las Personas Jóvenes") p) To inform, advise, and train young people, regarding the obtaining of housing loans.
(Thus added the preceding subsection by Article 3 of Law No. 9151 of August 27, 2013, "Acceso de Vivienda para las Personas Jóvenes") Sports:
- q)To guarantee the existence of safe sports spaces, where at least two different sports disciplines can be practiced.
(Thus added the preceding subsection by Article 2 of Law No. 9917 of November 19, 2020) r) To provide the required maintenance to existing public sports spaces.
(Thus added the preceding subsection by Article 2 of Law No. 9917 of November 19, 2020) s) To guarantee the opening of sports spaces, without limiting their access, during the hours required for sports practice.
(Thus added the preceding subsection by Article 2 of Law No. 9917 of November 19, 2020) t) To incentivize participation and permanence in sports, on the part of young people, through campaigns and sports activities promoted in the various schools and high schools.
(Thus added the preceding subsection by Article 2 of Law No. 9917 of November 19, 2020) u) To promote and ensure the active participation and representation of indigenous young persons in decision-making processes that affect their territories and their integral development, respecting and valuing their ancestral knowledge and their free self-determination.
(Thus added the preceding subsection by Article 1 of Law No. 10748 of September 1, 2025) v) To promote a culture of social peace and prevention of violence in public and common-use spaces, to safeguard the integrity of persons.
(Thus added the preceding subsection by Article 10 of the Ley para promover la participación, la prevención de la violencia y el cumplimiento de derechos de las personas jóvenes en los espacios públicos, No. 10561 of October 28, 2024) (Thus modified the numbering of the preceding subsection by Article 1 of Law No. 10748 of September 1, 2025, which transferred it from former subsection u) to subsection v)) w) To ensure young persons have access to due information and mechanisms for participation in the planning of public spaces.
(Thus added the preceding subsection by Article 10 of the Ley para promover la participación, la prevención de la violencia y el cumplimiento de derechos de las personas jóvenes en los espacios públicos, No. 10561 of October 28, 2024) (Thus modified the numbering of the preceding subsection by Article 1 of Law No. 10748 of September 1, 2025, which transferred it from former subsection v) to subsection w))