Course Title: Support young people to take collective action

Part B: Course Detail

Teaching Period: Term1 2021

Course Code: HWSS6023C

Course Title: Support young people to take collective action

School: 375T Vocational Design and Social Context

Campus: City Campus

Program: C5331 - Diploma of Youth Work

Course Contact: Dianne Mackey

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4454

Course Contact Email: dianne.mackay@rmit.edu.au


Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff

Nominal Hours: 55

Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.

Pre-requisites and Co-requisites

None

Course Description

In this course you will develop skills and knowledge required to enable young people to participate in the decision-making that affects their lives and applies to youth work where the primary concern is to support groups of young people in taking action to meet their needs or responding to community issues.

 

This unit is taught in a cluster with:

CHCYTH005 - Develop and implement procedures to enable young people to address their needs

CHCDEV002 - Analyse sociological factors on clients in community work and services

CHCYTH009 - Support youth programs

CHCYTH011 - Work effectively with young people and their families

CHCYTH012 - Manage service response to young people in crisis

 

120 hours of work placement undertaking youth work practice support the learning and assessment of these units


National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria

National Element Code & Title:

CHCYTH008 Support young people to take collective action

Element:

1. Encourage and support young people to develop and use networks
 

Performance Criteria:

1.1 Identify and note young people’s issues, needs or interests in community issues

1.2 Encourage and support young people to identify common issues, needs and interests

1.3 Discuss possibilities for responding to identified common issues, needs and interests

1.4 Provide opportunities for young people with similar interests or needs

1.5 Support and encourage young people to identify relationships between their issues/interests and social structures

1.6 Encourage young people to work together to take joint action

Element:

2. Support young people to come together to plan collective action
 

Performance Criteria:

2.1 Ensure young people have the relevant skills and knowledge to operate in a collective way

2.2 Map and monitor youth participation processes, particularly decision-making and inclusion processes of groups

2.3 Provide support, encouragement and opportunities to young people to enable them to communicate and interact with others to coordinate a planned action

Element:

3. Support young people to identify and form alliances with key stakeholders
 

Performance Criteria:

3.1 Identify other stakeholders interested in the issue or strategy

3.2 Gauge the interest, resources and possible roles of stakeholders

3.3 Support young people in contacting, informing and negotiating alliances with stakeholders

3.4 Assist young people and stakeholders to maintain appropriate contact and information flow

3.5 Encourage young people to acknowledge key stakeholder support

Element:

4. Support young people to implement their strategies or action plans
 

Performance Criteria:

4.1 Provide relevant information as required to individuals and the group to facilitate better operation of collective networks

4.2 Offer individual or group support on an ongoing basis

4.3 Use group processes to monitor progress and adapt or further develop plans

Element:

5. Assist young people to monitor and evaluate strategies
 

Performance Criteria:

5.1 Support groups to monitor and record progress

5.2 Assist groups to identify outcomes and consequences (intended or unintended) of their actions on an ongoing basis

5.3 Evaluate strategies and group processes

5.4 Provide reports of outcomes as appropriate to stakeholders and within the organisation

5.5 Celebrate achievements, including personal development, skills development and social change

Learning Outcomes


On successful completion of this course you will have developed and applied the skills and knowledge required to demonstrate competency in the above elements.


Details of Learning Activities

This course will be a blended delivery online via Canvas/Collaborate Ultra with some face to face demonstration of skills and knowledge.

Learning activities include:

  • teacher directed group activities/projects 
  • peer teaching 
  • group discussion 
  • class activities to review discussions/lectures 
  • role play activities 

Out-of-class activities: 

  • independent project-based work online and other research 
  • independent study 
  • Work placement


Teaching Schedule

Semester one:

Week

Topic

Content

1

Identify social and cultural issues impacting on young people in Australian society

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction to Placement Requirements

 

Introduction to Sociology

  • Sociological issues/ Factors impacting Young people in Australia
  • Social Determinants of Health
  • Inequality in Australia: A Young Person’s Perspective
  • Social Disadvantage, Social Exclusion
  • Identify major social and cultural institutions in Australian society and their societal functions
  • Identify ways in which major institutions in Australian society can impact young people as individuals and as part of community and family groups and the consequences of this impact.

Introduction to Placement Requirements

  • WWCC
  • Police Check
  • Individual Learning Plan
  • Resume Writing Introduction + Expression of Interest

 

Introduction to Assessment Task 7

2

Identify social and cultural issues impacting on young people in Australian society

 

Building Rapport with Young People

 
  • Australian political system
    • Historical context
    • Current context
  • Australian economic system
    • Historical context
    • Current context

Building Rapport with Young People

  • Empathetic & active listening
  • Body language
  • Eye contact
  • Interpreting hidden and complex messages
  • Role Play Practice

3

Sociology, politics, legislation

 

 

Ethical Principles

 

Self-Care

 

.Systems of government, systems of judiciary, systems of legislation.

  • How society is influenced by politics and economics.
  • Political spectrum
  • Political and economic theories

 Ethical Principles

  • YACVIC Code of Ethics

Self-Care

  • Compassion fatigue
  • Self-Care importance and strategies

4

Sociological concepts

 

 

 

 

Placement Skills

 
  • Social change
  • Social movements
  • Social Action
  • Policy
  • Social policy
  • Public policy
  • Law Vs Policy
  • Policy Activism
  • Policies relevant to youth work

Placement Skills

  • Giving and receiving feedback
  • Reflection & review
  • Self-awareness and critical reflection
  • Debriefing
  • Facilitation of interaction & participation

5

Identify social and cultural issues impacting on young people in Australian society

Task -1

 

Future Pathways

 

Child abuse- Myths and facts, impact

  • Child Protection- reporting, legislation, Mandatory requirements
  • Risk factors and protective factors

YACVic code of ethical practice

Future Pathways

  • Job search & application process
  • Resume, Cover Letters, Selection Criteria
  • Mock Interviews

6

 Major concepts- theory and practice

 

 

 

 

 

Current Issues

 

Rights and legal ethical requirements for youth work

  • Duty of care
  • Privacy and confidentiality
  • Evaluation and Monitoring of services
  • Stereotyping
  • Human Rights
  • Human rights – Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC)

Current Issues

  • Watch SBS Documentary ‘Yes All Men’ by Marty Smiley (26 minutes)

Individual Reflection & Class Discussion

7

Task -1

Major issues impacting young people.

 

Assessment Task 7

 
  • Unemployment
  • Homelessness
  • Mental health issues
  • Family Breakdown/ Family violence
  • Racial Discrimination
  • Discuss and complete task -1 in class

Assessment Task 7h

8

The Youth sector

 
  • Agencies involved in youth sector
  • Government and youth sector
  • Peak bodies

Task 2

9

Support Youth Programs

 
  • Collect evidence to determine the need for a particular program
  • Determining societal context – finding evidence
  • Analysing specific needs of the young people
  • Program proposals
  • Considering organisational requirements for program planning
  • Selecting a program

10

Support Youth Programs continued

Task 5 Overview
  • Overview of Task -5
  • Goals and Objectives
  • How to develop program objectives

11

Program planning

Task -5 Part1 and 2
  • Action plan
  • Session plan
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Evaluation plan

Task -5 Part1 and 2

12

Collective Action

Part 3 of Assessment task 5
  • Supporting young people to take collective action
  • Begins with a dialogue about issues that matter to young people.
  • Identify relationships between issues/interests and social structures
  • Working to identify strategies for young people to address these- Planning
  • Provide opportunities for young people to Plan

Identify and establish alliance with key stakeholders/support networks

13

Continuing Supporting Young people to Take Collective Action

 

 

 

Task -6

Support Young people to implement their strategies or action plans

  • Youth worker’s role in supporting young people to take collective action
  • Working with groups
  • Group Dynamics
  • Power Imbalances
  • Support Young people to Monitor and Evaluate collective action strategies

14

Crisis response

What is a Crisis

  • How do young people in Crisis respond?
  • What is a crisis response framework?
  • Preventing a Crisis Situation
  • Responsibility of the organisation in dealing with crisis situations
  • Resources to assist dealing with crisis situations

15

Placement support

  • Placement project planning and support
  • Support with Assessment task 5 Part 1 and 2

16

Collective Action

Discuss task -3

Complete Collective Action

17

Placement

Assessment

 

 Semester two:

 

Week

Topic

Content

1

Crisis response

Crisis Intervention

  • Youth worker’s role in a crisis
  • Communication
  • Reporting
  • Work within the legal and Organisational requirements
  • Training
  • Debrief, Follow up, Review

Methods of crisis intervention

2

Crisis response
  • Crisis intervention continues

Task -6 discuss in class

3

Develop and implement procedures to enable young people to address their needs
  • Ensure that young people with complex needs receive appropriate services
  • Working with young people who are victims of physical, psychological emotional or sexual abuse
  • Monitor and review of support provided to clients
  • Support, Supervision and debrief for staff

4

Develop and implement procedures to enable young people to address their needs

  • Ensure that young people with complex needs receive appropriate services
  • Working with young people who are victims of physical, psychological emotional or sexual abuse
  • Monitor and review of support provided to clients
  • Support, Supervision and debrief for staff

5

Task -3 Presentation
  • Individual presentations in class

6

Task -3 Presentation
  • Individual presentations in class

7

Task -3 Presentation
  • Individual presentations in class

8

Working with young person and their family-required skills
  • What is a family?
  • Establish relationship with the young person and nominated career/family members
  • Provide information to the young person and family in a factual, clear and ethical manner.
  • Obstacles to professional relationship with families and carers

Discuss Task 5 – Part 5

9

Working with young person and their family-required skills
  • Determine a mutual approach to addressing the young person’s needs
  • Negotiate with the young person regarding their goals
  • Goal setting process
  • Developing plans to support the young person to achieve their goals.

Identify resources to work with clients

10

 Interview skills

Working with young person and their family-required skills
  • Discuss task 4 in class
  • Discuss skills: summarise, paraphrase, negation, mediation
  • Counselling skills
  • Referral
  • Dealing with conflict
  • Practice role-play

 

11

Role Play- revisiting concepts

Placement
  • Role _Play practice
  • Placement support and reflection 
  • Potential Guest speaker
  • Any resubmissions for presentations
  • Task -6 finishing in class

 

12

Role play

Role play

13

Role play

Role play

14

Role play

 Role play

15

 

Role play

 

Guest speaker
  • Resubmissions for Role play, presentations, Task -6, Task -7

Guest speaker

16

Revising concepts

End of year celebration
  • Revisiting important concepts
  • End of year celebration
  • Assessment support (resubmissions for students with an extension)
  • Complete logbook

17

Placement

Assessment

 

 

 

 

 

 


Learning Resources

Prescribed Texts


References


Other Resources

Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessment, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: rmit.edu.au/students.


Overview of Assessment

 

To demonstrate competency in this course you will need to complete all of the following pieces of assessment to a satisfactory standard. You will receive written feedback on all assessment (refer to MyRMIT for assessment criteria).

 

Assessment Task 1

Knowledge Questions

Assessment Task 2

Organisational frameworks

Assessment Task 3

Presentation

Assessment Task 4 

Role Play

Assessment Task 5

Community Project

Assessment Task 6

Practical – observation and questions

Assessment Task 7

Placement reflection

Assessment Task 8

Placement observation

 

120 hours of work placement undertaking youth work practice support the assessment tasks

 

  

You should refer to the assessment plan which is available on Canvas for details of each assessment task and for detailed assessment criteria.

Grades that apply to courses that are delivered and assessed in accordance with competency-based assessment are:

CA: Competency Achieved

NYC: Not Yet Competent

DNS: Did not Submit for Assessment

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or the Equitable Learning Unit if you would like to find out more: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/support-and-facilities/student-support/equitable-learning-services

A student charter http://www.rmit.edu.au/about/studentcharter summarises your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions which are available for review online: https://www.rmit.edu.au/students/student-essentials/assessment-and-exams

 


Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task 1

Knowledge Questions – Sociological knowledge for youth work practice

Assessment Task 2

Knowledge Questions - Organisation frameworks

Assessment Task 3

Presentation - Working with Youth Services

Assessment Task 4 

Role Play - Working with youth and their families

Assessment Task 5

Community Youth Project - devise, coordinate, deliver and evaluate an event/program

Assessment Task 6

Practical - Collective Action: Supporting Youth Participation

Assessment Task 7

Reflection and research – Organisational policies and learning from your placement experience

Assessment Task 8

Placement observation - Student placement observation checklist for the skills and knowledge required in a workplace environment


Assessment Matrix

The assessment matrix is available in Canvas.

Other Information

Please refer to the RMIT student page for extensive information about study support, assessment, extensions, appeals and a range of other matters: rmit.edu.au/students.

Course Overview: Access Course Overview