CHCYTH003 - Support young people to create opportunities in their lives

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Unit code: CHCYTH003 | Study level: TAFE
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Footscray Nicholson
Sunshine
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Overview

This unit describes the 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.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and 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:

  • interacted, encouraged and supported at least two young people in both an individual and a group setting;
  • supporting the young people according to their circumstances and the objectives of each individual’s desired goals, individual needs, risks and circumstances, including education and employment;
  • supporting vulnerable young people and those with special needs and risks to participate in the decision-making and planning of actions and opportunities, and;
  • creating future opportunities for the individuals using a range of youth work interventions and documented measures of change.

Required reading

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

As part of a course

This unit is not compulsory for any specific course. Depending on the course you study, this unit may be taken as an elective.

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