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Summary
Youth development has emerged as an important field within the study of human development in recent years. High-quality youth programs can foster positive development of children and adolescents and minimize the likelihood of youth developing problem behaviors. Based on youth programs’ task of promoting positive youth development, it is important to ensure the quality of these programs. A core component of quality youth programming is having well‐trained and competent workers and one emerging method of training youth workers is through a certificate program. This fact sheet summarizes the links between youth outcomes, youth programs, youth workers, and the importance of youth development certificate programs.
Citation
Richmond, A., Brown, S., Braughton, J., Otto, M., Roeske, R., Jaeger, E., ... Borden, L. M. (2016). Youth Workers' Professional Development: The Importance of Youth Development Certificate Programs - Fact Sheet. Report Submitted to the U.S. Department of Defense.