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When the competency frameworks that target older youth are excluded the list of common core competencies areas changes slightly.
The lessons are meant to serve as guiding principles for expanding upon the common core competencies proposed in this study.
A comparative analysis of 11 competency frameworks is conducted to identify a set of common core competencies.
Arguably, some of the excluded competencies could be included as a topic in one or more of the common core competencies.
A difference between the current findings and those by Starr et al. (2009) is that the competency area concerning program environment was not included among the list of common core competencies.
Once refined the list(s) of common core competencies may serve as a standard that current and future youth workers can strive toward and can also be used to guide staff training.
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One method of doing so would be to incorporate competencies that are relevant for youth ages 14 18 into the common core competency areas developed to serve only school-age youth (the second list of competency areas presented).
In addition, the common core competency areas that were identified in this study almost mirror those found in a similar analysis conducted by Starr et al. (2009) using an alternate sample of frameworks.
Teasing out only the core competencies that achieved substantial agreement or agreement among all of the studied frameworks results in the following list of common core competency areas 4: Child/Youth Development understands the principles of child and youth development and applies them to the implementation of the program.
Furthermore, a common set of core competencies would help provide a common language in which to discuss the practice of youth workers, the absence of which has been identified as an issue in the OST field (Madzey-Akale and Walker 2000).
Moreover, current practitioners come from different disciplinary backgrounds underlining the need to define common core skills and competencies.
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