Youth is a key factor in social change. Young people are catalysts that define the political, economic, social and cultural structure of modern society. The article focuses on the need for youth policy as a special focus of the state on the basis of the role and place of youth in society. The issues of the formation and implementation of the state youth policy in the Republic of Kazakhstan. State youth policy has been concluded as a political, socio-economic, legal and organizational system that the state implements and supports young people.