[YL] FW: 2007 Working with Youth Survey
LeMenestrel, Suzanne
slemenestrel at CSREES.USDA.GOV
Mon Oct 1 08:42:34 EDT 2007
Hello David and fellow Youth Learn subscribers. I wanted to let everyone
know that the survey below is not sponsored by USDA--I posted the
announcement on behalf of Dr. Bill Evans at the University of Nevada,
Reno. Below is a response from Bill regarding the benefits of
participating in the survey. If you have any additional questions about
the survey, please feel free to contact Bill directly. Thanks for your
interest!
--Suzanne Le Menestrel
Reply from Bill Evans:
The information that the research team at the University of Nevada, Reno
is collecting via the Working with Youth Survey project will be
important data about the field of youth work that currently does not
exist. This includes information about youth worker skills, experience,
education and training, the features of the programs in which they work,
and the characteristics of their work environment and benefits. It is
hoped that survey findings will help us determine salient training
needs, what types of support youth workers believe they need to be most
effective, the scope and type of activities currently being conducted by
youth workers, and what issues are most important among youth workers to
continue working in the field. In addition to research articles and
conference presentations of the findings, a summary report of the survey
findings will be posted online at the University of Nevada, Reno in the
spring of next year (the survey will remain open for approximately 4
months); and the URL for this report will be widely distributed through
the same survey recruitment channels (email listserves, youth serving
organizations websites, etc.) that were used for participant
recruitment. This project was jointly funded by the University of
Nevada, Reno Cooperative Extension and Agricultural Experiment Station.
It is expected that research results will have implications for youth
development organizations in terms of retaining qualified staff and
training issues; at least one national webinar on the project findings
is anticipated being offered through www.CYFERnet.org next year. For
more information about this study, contact Bill Evans (contact
information follows).
Thanks for your support in helping us collect critical baseline data to
strengthen the field of youth work,
Bill
William P. Evans, Ph.D.,
Professor and Extension Specialist,
Human Development and Family Studies/140, University of Nevada, Reno,
Reno, NV, 89557-0131 Ph. 775-784-7013 FAX 775-784-6493
-----Original Message-----
From: youthlearn-bounces at milhouse.edc.org
[mailto:youthlearn-bounces at milhouse.edc.org] On Behalf Of David Keyes
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 3:04 PM
To: youthlearn at milhouse.edc.org
Subject: Re: [YL] FW: 2007 Working with Youth Survey
This sounds valuable, but Suzanne, would you share with us what will
happen with the research and how it will be reported back? Besides some
limited chance at a gift certificate, what will the youth service
providers community get back at the end? Is there USDA funding for youth
staff training or something else?
Thanks.
- David
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David Keyes
Director of Community Technology Programs
City of Seattle Department of Information Technology
PO Box 94709
Seattle, WA 98124-4709 USA
(206) 386-9759
david.keyes at seattle.gov
Fax (206) 684-0911
http://seattle.gov/tech/
Street address: 700 Fifth Ave. Suite 2700
>>> "LeMenestrel, Suzanne" <slemenestrel at CSREES.USDA.GOV> 9/27/2007 4:36
AM >>>
Hello everyone. Please share the invitation below with your colleagues.
Thanks for your assistance!
Regards,
Suzanne Le Menestrel
Suzanne Le Menestrel, Ph.D.
National Program Leader, Youth Development Research
National 4-H Headquarters
CSREES, USDA
202-720-2297
slemenestrel at csrees.usda.gov
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Dear Youth Program Staffer:
If you work with youth (ages 10 - 18) during out-of-school time hours,
we
need your help!
A team from the University of Nevada, Reno is conducting an
international
web-based survey of adults who work directly with youth (ages 10 - 18)
in
non-school time programs. This is a follow-up survey to one we
conducted
two years ago. We again are asking for your help to complete and
distribute
this short survey. The purpose of the study is to examine the
relationship
between a youth worker's job satisfaction and plans to continue working
with
youth, and their perception of:
. their skills in providing positive developmental settings for
youth;
. the features of the out-of-school-time program in which they
work;
. their professional experience and training; and
. characteristics of their job and benefits.
Please help us learn more about how to keep good youth development
professionals working in our programs. You can get to the survey by
clicking on the following link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=723752175369
Complete a survey and get a chance to win one of 10 $50 gift
certificates we
will be giving away!
We would also ask that you pass this email on to any adults who work
with
youth (ages 10 - 18) in out-of-school time programs. We apologize if
you
have received this request multiple times and ask that you only complete
the
survey once.
If you have any questions or problems accessing the survey, please email
survey manager Laura Davidson at ldavidso at unr.nevada.edu.
Thank you for your time and involvement in helping us learn more about
what
makes a quality youth development professional.
Bill Evans, Ph.D. (evans at unr.nevada.edu) Joyce Hartje, Ph.D.
(jletner at unr.nevada.edu) Eric Killian, M.S. (killiane at unce.unr.edu)
Deborah
Loesch-Griffin, Ph.D. (dgriffin at unr.edu) Stephan M. Wilson, Ph.D.
(swilson at unr.edu)
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