Course Title: Support young people to create opportunities in their lives

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C4429 Certificate IV in Youth Work

Course Title: Support young people to create opportunities in their lives

Portfolio: Vocational Education

Nominal Hours: 45

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.

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Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

HWSS5770C

City Campus

TAFE

535T Social Care and Health

Face-to-Face or Internet

 Term1 2024,
Term2 2024

Course Contact: Dianne Mackay

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99254454

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



Course Description

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to assist young people to identify the challenges and opportunities in their lives and to work towards their goals on an individual or group level.

This unit applies to work undertaken in all youth work roles where the young person is the primary client.

This is clustered with:

CHCYTH022 Provide services for the needs and circumstances of young people

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

CHCYTH015 Support young people to create opportunities in their lives

Elements:

1.1. Apply principles of youth work practice to facilitate safe individual and group processes for interaction. 1.2. Identify the conditions necessary for young people to change and grow. 1.3. Listen to and observe the young person's stories, experiences and behaviour and clarify concerns and needs. 1.4. Encourage and support young people to identify relationships between their issues and social structures. 1.5. Respect the young person's culture and way of interacting.

2.1. Use communication strategies to identify and explore the young person's challenges, strengths and resources. 2.2. Encourage the young person to identify and support their own strengths. 2.3. Identify and acknowledge circumstances outside the young person's control. 2.4. Support the young person to communicate their issues and interests in a way that is suitable to their individual needs, background and culture, and confirm understanding. 2.5 Take action to address immediate issues or concerns. 2.6. Support young person's agency and right to self-determination.

3.1. Use methods suited to the young person to consider desired outcomes and create opportunities. 3.2. Perform work tasks within the scope of service delivery and according to organisational policies and procedures. 3.3. Assist young people to explore opportunities and ways of being. 3.4. Identify barriers that hinder the way young people want changes to take place.

4.1. Use youth work interventions to create opportunities by developing and implementing action plans. 4.2. Explore and access available resources needed to achieve planned goals. 4.3. Develop proposals, strategies and steps for completing action plans. 4.4. Evaluate action plan and adjust as required to achieve goals. 4.5. Document intervention work according to organisational policies and procedures.

Learning Outcomes

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

1.1. Apply principles of youth work practice to facilitate safe individual and group processes for interaction.

1.2. Identify the conditions necessary for young people to change and grow.

1.3. Listen to and observe the young person’s stories, experiences and behaviour and clarify concerns and needs.

1.4. Encourage and support young people to identify relationships between their issues and social structures.

1.5. Respect the young person’s culture and way of interacting.

2.1. Use communication strategies to identify and explore the young person’s challenges, strengths and resources.

2.2. Encourage the young person to identify and support their own strengths.

2.3. Identify and acknowledge circumstances outside the young person’s control.

2.4. Support the young person to communicate their issues and interests in a way that is suitable to their individual needs, background and culture, and confirm understanding.

2.5 Take action to address immediate issues or concerns.

2.6. Support young person’s agency and right to self-determination.

3.1. Use methods suited to the young person to consider desired outcomes and create opportunities.

3.2. Perform work tasks within the scope of service delivery and according to organisational policies and procedures.

3.3. Assist young people to explore opportunities and ways of being.

3.4. Identify barriers that hinder the way young people want changes to take place.

4.1. Use youth work interventions to create opportunities by developing and implementing action plans.

4.2. Explore and access available resources needed to achieve planned goals.

4.3. Develop proposals, strategies and steps for completing action plans.

4.4. Evaluate action plan and adjust as required to achieve goals.

4.5. Document intervention work according to organisational policies and procedures.


Overview of Assessment

This course is assessed in accordance with competency-based assessment.
To demonstrate competency in this course you will need to complete the following assessment tasks to a satisfactory standard. You will receive feedback from the teacher when you have completed the assessment tasks. 

1 of 3 Identifying support needs and goal planning- practical assessment

2 of 3 Identifying support needs and goal planning- group setting

3 of 3 Goal plan reviews