The Youth Work Learning Center: Successes and Lessons Learned

Abstract

In 1979 the Wisconsin Association of Child Care Workers’ dream to create a center where workers and professors could work together on education programs, certification, and research became a reality when the Child Care Learning Center, now called the Youth Work Learning Center (YWLC), was founded at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Twenty-five years later the center is a primary source of education, training, and research for child and youth care workers in Wisconsin. The author describes the approach developed and the lessons learned.