Youth Development Practitioner: Skills, Goals, Attributes, and Plans

This report focuses on the role of a Youth Development Practitioner, detailing the essential skills, attributes, and long-term career goals. It begins by outlining the key responsibilities, such as assessing youth readiness, assisting with job searches, and maintaining records. The report emphasizes the importance of patience, communication, and the ability to remain calm in crisis situations. The author outlines personal aspirations to support young people's social, educational, and personal development, focusing on program planning related to health, fitness, and other challenges. The report also includes a bibliography of relevant sources supporting the concepts of youth development and practitioner roles.

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Behaviors of Youth Development
Practitioner
•The behaviors of the youth
development practitioner typically
involves certain skills, knowledge and
abilities.
•It involves assessing the youth’s job
readiness, personal growth goals,
assisting the youth with job search,
maintaining the case records of the
youth.
•The youth development practitioner
should outline the on job training needs
for the fresher.
•In addition to this, there job role also
involves effective communication and
facilitating discussion among the group
settings.
Personal attributes
•I think that I have all the required
attributes, which would make me a
good youth development practitioner.
•Patience is being listed first as it is the
most crucial factor.
•Moreover, I have the ability to hide
annoyance or frustration.
•In addition to this, I know how to keep
calm, at crisis situations.
•Lastly, the combination of good
communication skills along with
enthusiasm is surely going to make me
an influential practitioner.
Long term goals of Youth Development
Practitioners
• Camiré, M., 2014. Youth development in North American high
school sport: Review and recommendations. Quest, 66(4),
pp.495-511.
• Fraser-Thomas, J., Beesley, T., Dickler, L., Harlow, M.,
Mosher, A., Preston, C. and Wolman, L., 2017. Developing
Talent While Promoting Positive Youth Development.
• Lerner, R.M., Lerner, J.V., P Bowers, E. and John Geldhof, G.,
2015. Positive Youth Development and Relational‐
Developmental‐Systems. Handbook of child psychology and
developmental science.
• Li, Y., Agans, J.P., Chase, P.A., Arbeit, M.R., Weiner, M.B. and
Lerner, R.M., 2014. School Engagement and Positive Youth
Development: A Relational Developmental Systems
Perspective. Teachers College Record, 116(13), pp.37-57.
My plans of becoming a Youth
Development Practitioner
• In the next five years, I would like to
see myself as a successful practitioner,
guiding and supporting the young
people in their social, educational and
personal development. Moreover, I
would help them in reaching their full
potential within the society, by
supervising them.
• I aim to assess the requirements of the
youth and plan programs related to the
areas like health, smoking, fitness,
drugs and other challenges. I aim to
monitor as well as review the overall
quality of local youth work’s provision
and attend the multi agency meetings.
• My goals and ambitions would make
me a better youth development
practitioner as I would be supporting
and guiding the younger generation,
constantly. Moreover, I would train,
recruit as well as manage staff
members and undertake administrative
tasks. This would help me in polishing
my skills, as a practitioner.
Bibliography
•Assessing the requirements of
the youth and plan programs
related to the areas like health,
smoking, fitness, drugs and
other challenges.
•Monitoring as well as
reviewing the overall quality of
local youth work’s provision
and attend the multi agency
meetings.
•Supporting and guiding the
younger generation, constantly.
•Recruiting as well as managing
the staff members and
undertaking administrative
tasks.