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Youth Leadership Through Adventure: Alums' Perspectives On The Experience Of Leadership, Raynalde Schagen
Youth Leadership Through Adventure: Alums' Perspectives On The Experience Of Leadership, Raynalde Schagen
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In this study, I examined the perspectives that emerging adult alums of a program called Youth Leadership Through Adventure (YLTA) have of their adolescent experiences of being a leader. Eight YLTA alums engaged in semi-structured interviews focusing on the research questions: What are the lived experiences of leadership in emerging adult alums of YLTA? What factors of their adolescent involvement were most influential in their emerging adult lives? As a youth development program, YLTA is supported by Adapt and the North Country Health Consortium (NCHC), two nonprofit organizations devoted to improving health conditions and habits of individuals residing in the …