Each organization faces issues of retention and attraction of its members. This study explores issues of youth engagement in youth community organizations through a qualitative study. Literature identifies certain techniques used by adult leaders as more effective than others. In general these techniques need to be able to address the youth's need for autonomy, relatedness, and guidance. We took a closer look at the techniques by interviewing youth organization leaders about their experience in the area of community organizations. The leaders were asked to reflect on questions such as; what techniques did you find motivated the youth the most, and what was one of your most unsuccessful interaction with youth? Analysis revealed that issues relating to youth-adult partnerships are strongly present on the minds of interviewed participants. In addition, participants expressed efforts to empower youth by allowing the youth to be creative and to find their own voice. Responses also showed that leaders are attempting to provide safe and comfortable environments where the youth are encouraged to be themselves. The results from above confirm some of the techniques identified in the literature review. Techniques such as parental influence, or peer based influence were not as strong in this study due to the limitation of adult leaders' perspective. Another study might present these techniques as strong determinant factors affecting levels of youth engagement. Further investigative research like this can  help us rank organizational characteristics in terms of level of youth responsiveness.