The primary mode of learning in the manual is the written word. Too often the exercises are such that it is left up to the learner to determine the proper response to a question or situation. There is no evidence that volunteers and youth partner in the planning, implementation, or evaluation unless they are somehow involved by an unexplained process.
Implementation is necessary to involve youth with or without volunteer leadership.
Numerous ways of learning are available to the direct learner in the various exercises. Learning experiences listed are varied and suitable for a wide variety of learners. Applicability to the real world is variable with some missing elements that will require learner modification to reach reality. Participant experience levels were a mixture of too complex to too simple. Leaders are essential to interpret and assist if the learners are to use the materials in an optimum fashion.