Youth leaders are persons that are active in youth work field.

Youth leaders, educator or youth counsellor are not the same as Child and Youth Worker

Child and Youth Worker

Child and Youth Workers, also known as Child Care Workers, Child and Youth Counsellors, and Child and Youth Care Workers are professionals who work with children and adolescents in various therapeutic contexts, in the USA and Canada....

 named persons in Canada and United States of America, which are therapeutics youth workers.
They are also Youth Workers, or Youth Support Workers.

When acting in youth communities, they are called Community youth workers

Community youth workers

Community youth workers are young people and adults who are engaged in education, empowerment, activism, or other activities focused on adolescents in community-based settings, including churches, schools, or community centers. As a distinct field, community youth work, , has been established in...

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Training

In several countries they take special trainings in order to be employed.

For instance for non-professional Youth Leaders:

• In UK, National Vocational Qualification
  National Vocational Qualification
  National Vocational Qualifications are work based awards in England, Wales and Northern Ireland that are achieved through assessment and training. In Scotland they are known as Scottish Vocational Qualification ....
  
   or Vocationally Related Qualification, Level 2 or 3 can be required (it replaced the RAMPs training).
• In other countries like Germany or France, specific certificates can be required by the employer ("JuLeiCa" in Germany and "BAFA" in France, higher are professional graduate programs).

For professional Youth Workers, professional qualification programmes of study are offered by universities or colleges of higher education.