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- Understanding the daily challenges faced by program leaders in youth development is crucial for creating high-quality programs, as highlighted by research tracking leaders in 12 different programs over 2-9 months.
- The study identified 250 dilemma situations categorized into 5 main types and 12 subcategories, reflecting various considerations like youth personalities and community relationships.
- Effective leaders often handle these dilemmas with a youth-centered approach, emphasizing the need for research to focus on how leaders maintain program quality amidst these challenges, rather than just outlining the characteristics of successful programs.
Article Abstract
To create and sustain high quality youth development programs it is important to understand the challenging situations and dilemmas that emerge in program leaders' daily work with youth. In this research the experiences of leaders in 12 programs were followed over a 2-9 month period, which led to the identification of 250 dilemma situations. Qualitative analyses identified 5 categories and 12 subcategories of dilemmas that reflected distinct types of considerations (e.g., youth's personalities, relationships with the community). The analyses also found that the experienced leaders in the study typically responded to these dilemmas in ways that were youth-centered and that balanced multiple considerations. It is argued that researchers need to go beyond identifying features of high quality programs, and more fully examine how effective leaders create and sustain high quality in response to the challenging situations of practice.
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