Youth Worker Dilemmas and Questions

Youth Worker Dilemmas and Questions Introduction

Youth program staff and directors are often faced with dilemmas and questions regarding their direct work with individuals and groups of youth, organizational policies and practices- many of which serve as impediments to their work. They also face dilemmas and questions regarding staff issues, program improvement and data/evaluation.

We are reaching out to staff and program directors to collect their dilemmas and questions. We will use these to seek out answers from innovative practitioners, field experts, and leading thinkers. We will publish these questions and answers in our upcoming blog posts and papers.

To honor confidentiality, we will only use first names and states when publishing some of these questions and answers. We invite you to share this with your peers and networks. We promise to share questions and answers with all of those that submitted survey responses.

1. What is your first and last name?

2. What county and state do you serve?

3. What age groups do you serve?

4. What is your role within your program?

Please enter an 'other' value for this selection.

5. Submit your dilemmas or questions regarding direct work with individual or groups of youth (child and adolescent development, sexuality, difficult behaviors, youth leadership and autonomy, etc.). Please be specific.

6. Submit your dilemmas or questions regarding organizational policies and practices that support or impede on youth workers and their efforts to promote healthy youth development. Please be specific.

7. Submit your dilemmas or questions regarding program leadership (professional development, staff issues, program improvement and data/ evaluation, etc.). Please be specific.

8. Submit your dilemmas or questions specific to the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing, or distance learning.