Development and Validation of a Measure of Organizational Capacity for Implementing Youth Development Programs

In our age, businesses are accepted as living organisms. Businesses that are aware of this change have begun to transition from a result-oriented work system to process management, closely following customer expectations in order to exist in the future as well. The largest expense that sports clubs incur involves transfer spending, because the most talented footballer, who would influence team success, is recruited from outside the club. Today, many sports clubs are incorporated and need to create their own economic resources that would not only ensure their survival but also their success and continuity. This resource can be achieved by means of the footballers who participate in the youth development programs conducted by the club’ football academy. The standards of football are on the rise, and so are the expectations of all those involved, with qualified footballers demanding astronomical wages. Sport clubs need to increase their profits by using the resources that are being developed in their respective football academies. If a given footballer attains a high standard by performing well during training and making it to the first string team, the club has to save on the transfer budget. The aim of this study is to determine how club football schools and academies manage in accordance with process management within the system approach. This study incorporated the qualitative research method and case study technique. Data was collected with the help of the interview technique and examined using content analysis. In this research, it was found that youth development programs should be managed by employing three main processes: covering education in sports schools, practicing with competitor teams, and transitioning to professionalism. If these processes are applied across football academies, it would lead to the emergence of economically qualified footballers. Youth Development Programs, as a part of the system of process management within the framework of organizational structures of sports clubs, will prove to be an ideal form of structuring.

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A Summer of Discovery at Filipino Cultural School

Journal of Youth Development ◽

10.5195/jyd.2019.768 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 239-240

Author(s):

Julia Noelani Javier Joo

Keyword(s):

Identity Development ◽

Youth Development ◽

Strong Influence ◽

Development Programs ◽

Cultural Backgrounds ◽

Culturally Specific ◽

Youth Development Programs

Culturally specific youth development programs have a strong influence on the identity development of a number of youth from diverse cultural backgrounds. The following essay details a young person’s experiences while attending a cultural school and provides important implications for youth development practitioners who serve youth from various cultural backgrounds and experiences.

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Guiding Principles for Reaching and Engaging Latinx Youth in Youth Development Programs

Journal of Youth Development ◽

10.5195/jyd.2019.679 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 46-63

Author(s):

Fe Moncloa ◽

Nancy Erbstein ◽

Aarti Subramaniam ◽

Claudia Diaz Carrasco

Keyword(s):

Identity Development ◽

Youth Development ◽

Social Effects ◽

Youth Engagement ◽

Development Programs ◽

Ethnic Identity Development ◽

Youth Development Programs ◽

Guiding Principles ◽

Key Dimensions ◽

Latinx Youth

This qualitative study presents practices associated with sustained youth engagement at 13 Latinx-serving youth development programs located in 3 California counties: 1 rural, 1 suburban and 1 urban. Empirical findings reflect 5 key dimensions of practice: (a) integrate extended understandings of positive youth development, (b) support positive ethnic identity development, (c) contend with physiological and social effects of discrimination, (d) respond to the ramifications of economic poverty, and (e) act upon the diversity of local and regional Latinx experience. Study findings translate into guiding principles that youth development programs are encouraged to operationalize based on local interests, needs, and resources.

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Fifteen facts about modern students in Khabarovsk: sociological analysis

POWER AND ADMINISTRATION IN THE EAST OF RUSSIA ◽

10.22394/1818-4049-2021-97-4-110-117 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 97 (4) ◽

pp. 110-117

Author(s):

Yu. V. Berezutskiy ◽

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Youth Development ◽

Personal Development ◽

Sociological Analysis ◽

Development Programs ◽

Youth Development Programs ◽

Youth Entrepreneurship ◽

Problem Youth ◽

Life Education ◽

The City

The article presents a sociological analysis of the state of modern student youth in Khabarovsk. The scientists investigated: the ideas of student youth about the city of Khabarovsk and living conditions in it; peculiarities of youth leisure; basic problems of life; education, employment and professional development; migratory moods of young people; youth assessments of youth policy.The results of the study showed that the main problem of realizing youth potential in the city and the region is the high migration outflow of young people, which is based on the problem of young people seeing the prospects for their development, confidence in their future. The high cost of living, decent wages, the danger of being unemployed, the quality and accessibility of medicine, the improvement of the territory of residence, the housing problem, youth leisure - these problems worries young people very much today. At the same time, one of the main requests of student youth for the development of youth leisure is associated with personal development, the development of intellectual leisure. Interesting educational formats, forums, trainings, seminars, speakers are in great demand today among young people. But, of course, the development of creative directions, entertainment events, places for sports and cultural recreation is also important. A special youth demand is the development of youth entrepreneurship. All this, ultimately, should fill the municipal and regional youth development programs.

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