In the master's thesis, I explore the achieved goals of the Youth Center Gornja Radgona and I point out the key deficiencies in order to improve the program and the functioning of the youth center. In the theoretical part, I first present the free time of young people and point out the purpose of youth centers, which are an important player in ensuring high quality leisure time for young people. Second, I present the development and significance of the Youth Center Gornja Radgona, as well as the framework of activities and the goals of the youth center. In the empirical part, I present a complex evaluation that took into account different types and levels of evaluation, namely, the evaluation of the effort invested, the evaluation of the process, the evaluation of the achievement of objectives and the evaluation of unintended effects. I used qualitative and quantitative methods; interviews with the representatives of the youth center and questionnaires for the representatives of participating organizations, as well as users of the program. For the users, the evaluation of objectives was the key part of the research. Key findings based on the assessment indicate the need to strengthen youth information within the information point, to provide more information on the possibility of voluntary work in the youth center, to include international content, to define the way to increase the inclusion of young people from informal groups and to provide additional employment, which is connected with the vast majority of the mentioned findings. An important finding is the high value of the Youth Center Gornja Radgona, as a provider of a program for young people and those young by heart, for the local and wider environment.
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