Unit Content
Outcomes
1. Develop an understanding of community development & services
2. Evaluate the core competencies of care practices within a range of community contexts, including mental health, community support and disability care
3. Demonstrate an understanding of foundational principles of community development and support, including socio-cultural diversity, ethical practice, wellbeing.
4. Reflect on how personal worldview and wellbeing practices and strategies impact development as a community based practitioner.
Subject Content
- Understanding community services and community development in Australian and global contexts
- Core competencies of care practices
- Working with diverse groups (including Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander communities).
- Understanding Contexts: Mental Health and Addiction
- Understanding Contexts: Youth & Community Work
- Understanding Contexts: Disability and Aged-Care Services
- Understanding Contexts: Family Support and Child Protection
- Understanding Contexts: Trauma & trauma informed car
- Foundational Principles: Introduction to Asset Based Community Development
- Foundational Principles: Socio-cultural diversity, ethical practice, dignity of practice & multidisciplinary approaches to practice
- Foundational Principles: wellbeing and personal worldview
- Working across the lifespan: with Child, Young People and Adults
- Wellbeing of the Helper
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Onsite (face-to-face)
- Online (eLearning)
- Intensives
- Extensives
Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.
Assessment Methods
- Essay 40%
- Presentation & Paper 40%
- Critical Reflection 20%
Prescribed Text
Nil Required
