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Support young people to create opportunities in their lives

Support young people to create opportunities in their lives

Unit of competency
National Code
CHCYTH403B
State Code
D8616
TGA Status
Replaced
DTWD Status
Replaced
Current Release Number
1.00
Current Release Date
25/03/2011
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State Implementation and Classification
Approved Date
15/07/2014
Field of Education
090505 - Youth Work
Original Release Date
15/07/2014
Nominal Hours
35
Description
DescriptorThis unit describes the knowledge and skills 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
Notes
Elements and Performance Criteria
1. Build respectful and trusting working relationships with young people
  • 1.1 Facilitate safe individual or group processes with young people and apply principles of youth work practice
  • 1.2 Identify the conditions necessary for young people to change and grow
  • 1.3 Actively listen to the young person's stories and experiences to clarify issues
  • 1.4 Identify and explore strengths and exceptions
  • 1.5 Encourage and support young people to identify relationships between their issues and social structures
  • 1.6 Identify and avoid colonising practices
2. Work with young people to identify their needs, rights, strengths, hopes and opportunities
  • 2.1 Clarify the young person's expressed, demonstrated, or felt needs and concerns
  • 2.2 Explore exceptions, identify strengths and resources
  • 2.3 Problem solve immediate issues or concerns
  • 2.4 Work with client to create their own reframe of current circumstances
  • 2.5 Work to externalise the young person's issue or problem
  • 2.6 Acknowledge circumstances outside of the young person's control
3. Define identified goals
  • 3.1 Ensure the young person has been heard and problems acknowledged before moving to future planning
  • 3.2 Assist young people to explore future possibilities and ways of being
  • 3.3 Use creative methods, processes and questions to consider and create possibilities
  • 3.4 Identify barriers that hinder the way young people would like changes to take place
  • 3.5 Establish with the young person their desired outcomes
4. Develop and implement action plans
  • 4.1 Utilise a range of youth work interventions to create future opportunities
  • 4.2 Explore additional resources needed to achieve goals
  • 4.3 Develop proposals and strategies for action plans
  • 4.4 Measure and ensure change is noticed
  • 4.5 Document intervention work as required
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Replaces
State Code National Code Title Type
S3287 CHCYTH3C Support young people to address their circumstances Unit of competency
D2740 CHCYTH403A Support young people to create opportunities in their lives Unit of competency
Replaced By
State Code National Code Title Type
WD013 CHCYTH403C Support young people to create opportunities in their lives Unit of competency