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Preface

National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs

The University of Northern Iowa's Youth Leadership Studies program has established a new support base to education for youth service organization careers. Commitment to the challenges and opportunities of the program is extremely high throughout the University among students, faculty, and administration One of the key challenges to the program is to conduct an annual national symposium on important issues to the profession. The Symposium is an annual working conference of youth service related professionals that focuses on solving practical problems of the emerging profession through continuing sequences of study and development. The experience of students, faculty, and practitioners from …

Culture Of Voluntary Non-Profit Organizations: Implications For The Youth Service Professional, Donna D. Lenaghan

National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs

I will: 1) identify the concepts of a corporate culture, 2) explore the common elements in the macro-culture of Youth Serving Organizations, 3) explore some distinctions in the micro-culture of the individual Youth Serving Organizations, and 4) propose why the understanding of corporate culture is an important competency for Youth Service Professionals: advocates, managers, program directors, and youth workers.

Developing Intuition In Youth Through Empowerment: A Step Toward Professionalism Through Mentoring, B. J. Primus

National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs

I have selected four areas to define and explore in order to best describe the need for the development of a support system to encourage the professional growth and development of the youth of today who will lead tomorrow. These areas include:

Intuition: Theoretical Interpretations from its Roots and History

Developing Leadership/Professionalism Through the Empowerment of Intuition

The Mentor/Protege Relationship and Its Relationship to Intuition: Effects of the Leadership Role

Combining the Five S's (signs, senses, symbols, symptoms and systems) in Developing Intuition

Youth Development Professionals: Connecting Competencies And Curriculum [Complete Monograph]

National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs

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Challenges To The Profession (Keynote Lecture), Karen J. Pittman

National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs

The topic of my talk this evening is "Challenges to the Profession." We heard this afternoon about the challenge., presented by both the changing demographics and the changing realities of adolescence in this country. We will hear, over the course of the symposium, about the challenge., involved in designing and running more effective programs, recruiting, training and retaining volunteers, raising funds. Tonight, I would like to talk about a larger challenge, a challenge that will lead us to think about a word used earlier -- mission. I think that the primary challenge we have before us is to figure out …