Elements and Performance Criteria

Issues and concerns may include:
Employment
Housing
Financial/income support
Access to education and training
Health
Crime prevention
Social isolation
Planning public access
Child care

Responses include:
Establishment of alternative systems and structures
Working within local bureaucracies
Advocacy

Operational arrangements include:
Legal framework for operation
Funding arrangements
Models for operation
Decision making arrangements
Baby sitting
Vouchers
Location
Advertising/promotion

Community work methods include:
Community action
Advocacy
Development of self help processes
Development of infrastructure in the community
Development of community support
Development of community programs

Working with individuals and groups to achieve community development outcomes may include engagement with various structures and patterns of work undertaken by practitioners and community members including:
Community service delivery
Community projects
Community development
Community action
Community planning
Consultative and planning committees

Opportunities for groups to participate include:
Sector development structures
Activities at service delivery, program, operative and management levels
Formal and informal systems
Promotion
Support meeting
Focus groups on relevant issues

Key people may include:
Advocacy groups
Policy and decision makers in the community
Community leaders
People with formal and informal representative roles

Resources may include:
Skills/administrative support
Physical, transport, venues, material, equipment
Provision of training
Financial
Equipment
Staff skills and time
Provision of facilities
Educational materials
Funding

Critical aspects of assessment:
Capacity to work strategically in a number of areas to ensure individual concerns are translated into public issues
Development and maintenance of public processes to address common issues
The ability to work with a wide range of key people or stakeholders in the community

Essential knowledge:
Community development principles and practices
The community profile
Funding sources and their policies and strategies for encouraging community input and participation
Relevant local, state and federal strategies/legislation

Depending on the work role or services provided, specific knowledge of particular groups or issues may be required, including:

Alcohol and other drugs
Cultural and linguistic diversity
Risk of self harm
Women
Men
Community education
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
Mental health
Social Policy and the State
Information dissemination
Public speaking
Using the mass media
Ethics
Negotiation skills
Social action and social change

Essential skills:
Research
Project/program evaluation
Budgeting
Negotiation, liaison, networking
Group facilitation

Resource implications:
Assessors should allow for access to appropriate structures, people or organisations for assessment purposes

Context of assessment:
This unit will be assessed in the workplace or in a simulated workplace under the normal range of workplace conditions