Diploma of Youth Work

• Establish respectful relationships with people with mental health issues
• Determine the needs of people with mental health issues
• Work with people with mental health issues to meet aspirations and needs

• Identify networking and collaboration needs and opportunities
• Develop collaboration strategies
• Work collaboratively
• Represent the organisation
• Maintain and enhance networks and collaborative partnerships

• Identify social and cultural issues impacting on people and society
• Analyse impacts of social and cultural factors on people
• Monitor impact of social and cultural factors on community work and services provided to people

• Communicate effectively with young people
• Respond to youth cultures and subcultures and young person’s own development
• Work with the young person as the focus
• Critically reflect on own practice and values

• Interpret and apply social, cultural, historical, economic, legal, political contexts and influence of dominant discourses in perception of young people
• Interpret and apply context of youth work drawing on critical youth work theory and practice
• Work within youth work frameworks and practices
• Apply values-based approaches to working with young people.

• Use a structured approach to counselling
• Establish the nature of the helping relationship
• Confirm the helping relationship

• Prepare for assessment
• Analyse the person’s needs using a collaborative approach
• Determine appropriate services
• Complete reporting
• Evaluate assessment and referral processes

• Engage consumers in the analysis of service needs
• Develop programs
• Implement and monitor programs
• Evaluate programs

• Identify and address immediate needs and circumstances, using trauma informed focus of young people
• Explore and clarify issues facing the young person as the primary stakeholder and the nature of support sought
• Facilitate goal setting and action planning
• Provide targeted assistance and referral
• Act as an advocate on request

• Identify the youth program required
• Prepare youth program plan
• Deliver youth program
• Monitor and evaluate youth program

• Plan group activities and resources
• Coordinate group planning processes
• Manage group processes and conflict
• Evaluate group activities

• Determine response to case management
• Conduct case management meetings
• Develop a case management plan
• Monitor and review case work activities and processes

• Implement a trauma-informed framework for preventing crisis situations
• Support workers in responding to a crisis
• Follow up crisis situations

• Identify children and young people at risk
• Report indications of possible risk of harm
• Apply ethical practices in work with children and young people

• Adopt work practices that support interactions with those affected by domestic and family violence
• Identify client needs
• Respond to client needs

• Work from a trauma informed care perspective
• Utilise self-care strategies
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of trauma informed care in services

*Credit Transfer

• Respond to an emergency situation
• Apply appropriate first aid procedures ·
• Communicate details of the incident
• Review the incident