Coming from a youth justice background I am fairly familiar with the US criminal justice system, as many criminal justice policies and practices have been imported either wholly or in part to the UK. However, I was really surprised to discover that there is no such similarity between youth work policy and practice. Youth work in the States does not have a distinct identity, there are no statutory (either at federal or individual state level) requirements, nor strategies to provide youth services and while there are programmes that provide non-formal learning opportunities for "youth" and "youth at risk" they tend to be independent and locally based community organisations that are totally reliant on the financial support of individuals and trusts to operate.
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