The level of awareness of the youth centers affiliated to provincial directorates of youth and sports among the young between the age range 15-29

The purpose of this study is,determining the leisure time consideration behaviors of the youth which are between age range 15-29 years and going mainstream school and also determining the knowledge of The Youth Centers that belongs to provincial directorate of sports. The population of this complementary study is 46.833 students in total. In this population, there are 32.314 students are from highschools in Elazığ city centre and 14.519 students are from Fırat University. Research sample is created from Elazığ city centre highschools' students in grade 9-10-11-12 and 1002 students from Fırat University between age range 19-29 years old. All students are selected arbitrary. All datas had been collected between April-May 2014. The data collection tool was a survey which was made from researcher. All datas had evaluated by SSPS 17.0 package programme and the number had given as average percentage. Chi square test had used in analyze. One third of the youth that in the research scope attend to youth centre activities and more than half of them know these services are free. The youth between age range 20-29 years and male students know location of youth centers more than the others. When we analyzed the reason of not knowing the youth centers, the most of the answers (70,6% ) were about insufficient publicity. More than half of the students were declared that to work in youth centers as volunteers. This rate is more valid for youth that in age range 20-29 years and for female students. Most of the students are not interested in any sport activities. Their sport activities, attending sport activities' frequency and the importance of sport activities were different regarding to the age and gender (p<0,05). In this study, the students rage is 83,7% which are declared that they read book. Even there is no difference for reading activity regarding to any age range, there is a gender difference that shows us the female youth is reading more (p<0,05) In accordance with these results, these solutions may recommended; Increasing the publicity activites fro youth centers, giving more attention to the youth especially between ages 15-19 years, making the youth centers more attractive places for making them as an alternative against where else youth spend their time, to make the sport as a main activity in day life of youth, giving necessary informations in family and in education institutions, giving seminars for developing the awareness of reading, organizing clasroom activity in schools.