Details for SSC116 Community Engagement

Community Engagement explores Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) principles for mobilizing individual and community strengths. Students learn to identify assets, skills, and passions within communities while building collaborative relationships and leadership capacity. The subject emphasizes developing community engagement plans, ethical multidisciplinary practice, and effective referral processes. Through reflective practice, students examine how personal worldview influences community work while maintaining professional wellbeing in Australian and global contexts.

Quick Stats

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: SSC116
  • Credit points: 10

Subject Coordinator

Prerequisite

Nil

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Develop an understanding of community engagement principles

2. Describe the core elements of the Asset Based Community Development as it relates to community engagement

3. Consider practices for identifying and developing community-based relationships and collaborative practices

4. Design and develop community engagement plan including individual and community asset

Subject Content

  • Understanding community services in Australian and global contexts
  • Core competencies of care practices
  • ABCD: Community assets and strengths
  • ABCD: Identifying and mobilising individual assets, skills and passions
  • ABCD: Identifying and mobilising community assets, skills and passions
  • ABCD: Principles and practices of community leadership
  • ABCD: Building community relationships and collaborative practice
  • ABCD: Referrals
  • ABCD: Community development and engagement planning
  • Ethical practice & multidisciplinary approaches to practice
  • Understanding worldview and community practice
  • Reflective Practice: wellbeing and professional development

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Onsite (face-to-face)
  • Online (eLearning)
  • Intensives
  • Extensives

Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

  • Critical Reflections (40%)
  • Essay (30%)
  • Case Study (30%)

Prescribed Text

Nil