CHCCDE019 - Work within a community development framework

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Unit code: CHCCDE019 | Study level: TAFE
Credit points
N/A
Location
Footscray Nicholson
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to work within a community development framework.
A community development framework may include a range of methods designed to strengthen and develop communities by enhancing individual and group capacity to confidently engage with community structures and to address problems and issues.
This unit applies to workers using a community development approach to carry out work in the health, community services or other sectors. Workers at this level are part of a professional team and under the guidance of a supervisor.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • engage with at least one community group to establish and achieve their priorities
  • develop at least one community development work plan to meet identified priorities.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • relevance of the community development work role and functions to maintaining sustainability of the workplace, including environmental, economic, workforce and social sustainability
  • key features of a community development work plan
  • community development approaches and frameworks:
  • asset-based
  • rights-based
  • needs-based
  • gap-based
  • impact of current and changing social, political and economic contexts
  • strategies for addressing individual differences
  • strategies for undertaking community consultation and managing engagement
  • processes for documentation and provision of information
  • principles and practices of community development work:
  • structural disadvantage and inequality
  • social justice and human rights:

    individual
    family
    community
    society

  • organisational policies and procedures for referrals.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the VU Polytechnic and/or via the Victoria University Polytechnic e-Learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate IV in Youth Work
CHC40421 | Certificate iv | Duration:

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