Youth work in our Arab homeland is still a new field organizationally, but it has been present for decades in Quran memorization circles, summer clubs, previous centers, as well as talent clubs and school activities.

However, youth work is still facing a number of challenges in its organizational form, including:

1- Limited Financial Resources:

Youth work as an official organizational practice suffers from a lack of financial resources from the supporters, as they face a new term and different methodology of work, the impact and sustainability of which they cannot yet foresee. Thus, we need in youth work to gradually convince donors of the importance of organizing and arranging youth work so that it becomes a field in its own right, just as is done in the care of orphans, for example.

2- Weak Human Resources:

According to our research, there are no scientific Arabic references for youth work except for a department in one of the Tunisian universities. Consequently, it still suffers from weak human resources in terms of organization, supervision, and planning, rather than execution. While there may be an abundance of executors in youth work, the challenge lies in the lack of professionals who manage these executors with a professional mindset based on knowledge and expertise.

3- Absence of Guidelines:

When you think today about launching your project related to youth work, you will find that you are faced with a lack or weakness of existing guidelines that explain the mechanisms and steps in your field of work. Despite having specialized entities in youth work in Saudi Arabia, such as Al-Rajhi Humanitarian and Community Youth, youth work needs hundreds of specialized organizations in youth work that focus specifically on supporting youth work in defined areas, one specializing in administrative organization, another in grants, and another in project management and idea innovation.

4- Generational Gap:

As youth enter decision-making centers in most of our Arab countries, there still exists an "old guard" that dominates some positions related to decision-making. These traditional "guards" will not allow youth work to become an organizational phenomenon with its official and legal entity because they do not see any benefit or viability in it. The solution is to reconcile with them and convince them with step-by-step approaches without clashing, practicing soft change built on evidence, proofs, and experiences of those who came before us from foreign countries.

5- Preoccupation of Official Entities:

In every Arab country, there are ministries or agencies whose main tasks include working with youth; however, they have confined themselves to football, as if all the youth in the Arab homeland do not wish to develop their thoughts or improve their artistic, scientific, or economic levels. We find that the General Presidency for Youth Care has become the General Sports Authority, and there is no longer a presidency, agency, or even a coordinating office linking entities working with youth or providing them with advice and counsel regarding the needs of youth. We hope to see an independent official entity that falls under the Council of Ministers or one of the bodies related to youth.