YOUTH CENTER IN THE CONTEXT OF YOUTH WORK DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Provision of the activities of youth centers, youth workers, cross-industry and intersectoral cooperation in youth work, evaluation of effective youth work, ensuring conditions for youth participation and youth public control is important in the implementation of youth policy in Ukraine. At the state level, it is determined that the youth center is an institution formed to address issues of social development of youth. The main purpose of the center in accordance with the Standard Regulations is to "promote: socialization and self-realization of young people; intellectual, moral, spiritual development of youth, realization of its creative potential; national and patriotic education of youth; promotion of a healthy lifestyle of young people; youth employment and leisure activities, youth entrepreneurship; providing civic education for young people and development of volunteer work; increasing the level of youth mobility " The purpose of the article is to analyze the semantic content of the concept of "youth center" in the context of youth work. The study used such methods as analysis, comparison and generalization of scientific sources on the researched problem. Different definitions of the concept of "youth center" from the legislative point of view to the opinion of the consumer are analyzed; the peculiarities of the work of youth centers are revealed; the directions and forms of work of youth centers and forms of realization of youth work are determined. Having studied various definitions, we believe that the youth center is not just an institution, the organization is a positive environment that promotes personal (intellectual, moral, spiritual) and professional development of youth through various areas of youth work (non-formal education, national-patriotic education, promotion of healthy lifestyle, youth entrepreneurship, volunteering, youth mobility).