Power of Us Workforce Survey
Young people live, learn, work, and play across settings and systems: in afterschool programs, community centers, libraries, parks, museums, and many more places outside of the school day. Adults across these settings and systems play an integral role in supporting youth to thrive (National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, 2018). Yet, we have little collective information about this essential workforce.
In the Power of Us Workforce Survey Report, we define the youth fields as: “Adults who work with young people in strengths-based interest development and enrichment opportunities through community organizations, institutions, and agencies.”
The Power of Us Workforce Survey, conducted by AIR with a constellation of partners, was an effort to learn more about the youth fields workforce. Over 10,000 members of the youth fields answered the call and completed the survey.
The Power of Us Workforce Survey Report includes findings for current staff and explores their career paths, professional learning, professional well-being, and compensation. The report also includes differences in survey responses by respondent characteristics (e.g., age, tenure, leadership position, full- or part-time status).
The Power of Us Workforce Survey Snapshot: All Staff includes high-level findings for all staff, and the Power of Us Workforce Survey Supplemental Data Tables: All Staff detail the distributions of responses by survey item overall and by respondent characteristics. In addition to these key documents, we include documents below with findings, snapshots, and data tables for part-time staff and for frontline staff only.
PUBLIC DATASET
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