Professional Development for Youth Workers (Keynote Address)

Authors

Frank L. EsserFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

I want to begin this presentation by telling you that I hopefully speak to you tonight as more than the Executive Director of a local nationally affiliated youth agency. My intent is to address you on behalf of my colleagues from all youth serving agencies, and in a way that will reflect the unified commitment and concern we share regarding the Professional Development of our field.

During the first Youth Leadership Symposium Judith Carter, Director of Career Development with Boys and Girls Clubs of America, challenged us very directly with a very realistic picture of the situation of our youth in America ... one that was far from pleasant...one that spoke the facts by specifically outlining in numbers and demographics the road ahead for the youth development profession. She very succinctly drove home to us the reality of 14 million poor youth who are ticking time bombs entering the 21st century. Never before has a generation of children been less prepared for life than their parents at the same age (NYLS, 1990). That picture certainly has not changed, and in fact is becoming clearer to us in Iowa and this community since then.

Publication Date

1991

Journal Title

National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs

Volume

2

Issue

1

ISBN

1-881516-01-6

First Page

23

Last Page

31

Comments

Monograph no.2 of this series covers the 1991 National Youth Leadership Symposium

Publisher

Institute for Youth Leaders

City

Cedar Falls, IA

Copyright

©1991 Institute for Youth Leaders, College of Education, School of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Esser, Frank L. (1991) "Professional Development for Youth Workers (Keynote Address)," National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs: Vol. 2, Article 6.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/nyls_monographs/vol2/iss1/6