Leadership Coaching Curriculum Research Collaborative

Focus Areas: Youth leadership development, youth civic leadership, youth social justice leadership, program evaluation, organizational effectiveness

Program Description:
A first-of-its-kind longitudinal study on best practices and the long-term value of investing in youth leadership development programs.

Goals:

• Create an evaluation index for youth leadership programs
• Develop an open-source resource center
• Establish a technical support operation to help organizations strengthen their youth leadership development programs over time

Research Questions:

• What existing frameworks and conceptual models exist for youth civic leadership development and youth social justice leadership development?
• What does research find about effective means of building youth civic and social justice leadership?
• What research exists about sustaining young staff in movement and political work (sustainability, burnout culture, nonprofit industrial complex, etc)?