CHCDIS012 - Support community participation and social inclusion

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Unit code: CHCDIS012 | 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 assist with supporting people with disability in community participation and social inclusion using a person-centred approach. This involves enabling people to make choices to maximise their participation in various community settings, functions and activities to enhance psychosocial wellbeing and lifestyle in accordance with the person’s needs and preferences.This unit applies to workers in varied disability services contexts. Work performed requires some discretion and judgement and may be carried out under regular direct, indirect or remote supervision.

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:

  • support at least two people with disability to identify skills and interests and find matching options within the broader community including:
  • selecting options that meet needs and preferences outlined in their individualised plan and supporting them to access
  • identifying barriers and implementing strategies to overcome them in collaboration with the person
  • monitoring strategies and seeking feedback from the person and others on the success of implemented strategies
  • making adjustments as required to facilitate continued success.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • rights and responsibilities of people with disability
  • principles of:
  • strengths-based practice
  • person-centred practice
  • human rights framework
  • community inclusion and best practice examples
  • social and emotional wellbeing frameworks
  • strategies for strengthening options, networks and services for people with disability
  • strategies and techniques for systemic and individual advocacy
  • local agencies and services, and resources to obtain community information about sporting, cultural and specific interest groups
  • active citizenship and what this means for people with disability
  • strategies for supporting the person’s participation in work
  • strategies that can be used by employers to facilitate the person’s inclusion and engagement in the workplace
  • strategies around reasonable adjustment that can be used to increase the person’s independence
  • scope and breadth of assistive technologies used across the life domains, including but not limited to:
  • self-care
  • continence and hygiene
  • communication
  • mobility and transferring
  • cognition and memory loss
  • vision and hearing
  • daily living activities
  • recreation and leisure
  • education and employment
  • home and other environments
  • eating and drinking
  • pressure area management
  • carer support
  • role of assistive technologies in supporting a person’s life activities:
  • maintaining and promoting independence
  • enabling inclusion and participation
  • barriers to community participation and social inclusion:
  • physical
  • skill
  • personal
  • systemic
  • structural
  • psychological
    -stigma and self-stigma
  • discrimination
  • lack of resources
  • role of carer, family and others in supporting and facilitating community participation and social inclusion
  • strategies to address negative attitudes expressed by carer, family and others regarding community participation and social inclusion.

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 III in Individual Support
CHC33021 | Certificate iii | Duration:

Refer to the course page for information on how to apply for the course. VU takes care to ensure the accuracy of this unit information, but reserves the right to change or withdraw courses offered at any time. Please check that unit information is current with the Student Contact Centre.

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