Youth–adult partnerships are intentionally cultivated intergenerational relationships characterized by shared power among youth and adults. Although youth–adult partnerships (Y-APs) are widely adopted as a strategy to promote key positive development outcomes in youth service organizations, research documents various challenges that affect their quality implementation. This critical literature review presents a theoretical framework for how community-based youth service organizations may enhance youth–adult partnership quality through organizational learning. The main premise is that Y-AP implementation challenges are best understood as challenges of collective learning within an organization. As such, the review integrates theory and research in organizational learning with present scholarship on Y-APs to delineate how two learning processes—intra-group and inter-group knowledge transfer—influence Y-AP quality. These learning pathways exist in dynamic interaction at different levels of the organizational hierarchy, at the point of service and beyond. The theoretical framework provides a road map for effective functioning of Y-APs in practice and an interpretive lens for descriptive and intervention research to understand and address Y-AP challenges.

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理论化组织学习以加强社区青年服务组织中的青年与成人伙伴关系

青年与成年人的伙伴关系是有意培养的代际关系，其特点是青年和成年人共享权力。尽管青年-成人伙伴关系 (Y-AP) 被广泛用作促进青年服务组织关键积极发展成果的战略，但研究记录了影响其质量实施的各种挑战。这篇批判性的文献综述为基于社区的青年服务组织如何通过组织学习提高青年与成人的伙伴关系质量提供了一个理论框架。主要前提是，最好将 Y-AP 实施挑战理解为组织内集体学习的挑战。像这样，该评论将组织学习的理论和研究与目前关于 Y-AP 的学术研究相结合，以描述两个学习过程——组内和组间知识转移——如何影响 Y-AP 质量。这些学习途径存在于组织层次结构的不同层次、服务点及其他层面的动态交互中。该理论框架为 Y-AP 在实践中的有效运作提供了路线图，并为描述性和干预研究提供了一个解释镜头，以了解和应对 Y-AP 挑战。