The report presents a description of a volunteer probation counselor program involving the use of volunteer citizens in counseling relationships with youthful misdemeanant offenders. The program was conducted by the Lincoln-Lancaster, Nebraska, Municipal Court. The report contains a description of the essential features of the program including selection of probationers and volunteers. The effectiveness of the program is assessed by three classes of evaluative criteria--behavior, personality, and psychosocial. Performances of high-risk youthful misdemeanant offenders who were assigned randomly to either routine probation programming or Volunteer Probation Volunteer Probation Counselors are compared. A sample of low-risk youthful misdemeanant offenders assigned to routine probation programming were also studied. The relationships between successful volunteers and probationers is examined. A model of the successful Volunteer Probation Counselor (MODEL-VOL) is developed and its scientific value assessed by comparing predictions generated by the MODEL-VOL with measures of successful relationships. (Author)