The article attempts to justify the need to create institutional systems to identify and support creatively gifted children. The paper analyzes the institutional problems of the modern system of support for talented youth, both at the Federal and regional levels in the Russian Federation. An analysis of the main activities to support talented and active young people at all levels of government was carried out. Based on the analysis, it can be concluded that, on the one hand, in our country there are prerequisites for the creation of an effective mechanism to identify and support young people with creative potential-"Federal level -regional levelmunicipal level", on the other hand, for a number of reasons, these prerequisites remain largely unfulfilled. As a result of the conducted research, a number of problems that constrain the state policy on support of talented youth and interfere with its effective implementation was revealed. The key problems are: low level of attention to the need to form a mechanism for the development of talented youth; focus on increasing the number of institutions working with youth, and their low degree of interaction and interconnection; low level of funding for programs to identify and support young people with creative potential; lack of effective mechanisms for monitoring the dynamics of creativity among children in the regions of the country; insufficient regulatory framework. A mechanism was proposed to identify and support talented youth through the formation of a network infrastructure.