National collaboration for youth core competencies for youth workers.
Ideally, this common set of youth worker competencies would represent the skills for youth workers in multiple sectors within the OST field.
The intent is to propose a set of youth worker competencies that reflect the consensus of experts and practitioners in the OST field, thereby, offering a common way to conceptualize the skill set necessary to implement quality programming in the diverse sectors of youth work.
Multiple versions of youth worker core competencies have been developed as experts struggle to define the professional skill set germane to the OST field.
Thus, this framework is considered to include an understanding of child and youth development as a competency area.
Supporting youth friendly policies and competency based training of HSP are two common approaches used to improve SRH services for adolescents.
To their credit, all of the frameworks included knowledge of Child and Youth Development as a competency area that can be used to guide the development of age-appropriate activities.
The outdoors program relies on hands-on learning methods to help develop leadership competencies in youth.
Kansas and Missouri bi- state core competencies for youth development professionals.
Kansas and Missouri partnered to author the first set of bi-state core competencies for youth development professionals.
