The Supervising Youth Development Practice: A Facilitator's Guide for Training Supervisors of Youth Workers (SYDP) helps to address the challenge that AYD graduates face when they return to their programs and find their supervisors unfamiliar with AYD and unsure how to support them.
SYDP introduces supervisors of frontline youth workers to the principles and practices of youth development and best practices in the supervision of a youth development program.
The curriculum has four broad learning goals. Superviors in the program will:
- Gain familiarity with the youth development approach and use this approach to explore, share, and learn new strategies for working with young people.
- Learn to apply the youth development approach to the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs.
- Learn strategies for integrating the youth development approach and the "best practices" in the supervision of youth workers.
- Form an informal network and become ongoing resources to each other.
This 15-hour curriculum is delivered by BEST faciliators in a five-session format and is based on sessions from AYD.
- Session 1: Youth Development Key Concepts
- Session 2: Youth Worker Core Competencies
- Session 3: Opportunities and Supports
- Session 4: Cultural Assumptions; Youth Participation
- Session 5: Outcome Indicators; Supervisor Core Competencies
NTI currently makes SYDP available only to communities participating in the National BEST Network.
