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- This chapter discusses how local and regional intermediary organizations help start and maintain professional development systems for community-based youth workers.
- It highlights the importance of these intermediaries in setting training standards and measuring the effectiveness of such programs.
- The approach also emphasizes the need for providing organizational support and scaling up these development initiatives for youth workers.
Article Abstract
This chapter examines the role of a national network of local and regional intermediary organizations in initiating and sustaining community-based youth worker professional development systems. This approach is instructive for other intermediaries in establishing training standards, assessing impact, providing organizational supports for youth development workers, and going to scale.
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