Course Title: Support young people to create opportunities in their lives

Elements:

1.1. Apply principles of youth work practice to facilitate safe individual and group processes for interaction. 1.2. Identify the conditions necessary for young people to change and grow. 1.3. Listen to and observe the young person's stories, experiences and behaviour and clarify concerns and needs. 1.4. Encourage and support young people to identify relationships between their issues and social structures. 1.5. Respect the young person's culture and way of interacting.

2.1. Use communication strategies to identify and explore the young person's challenges, strengths and resources. 2.2. Encourage the young person to identify and support their own strengths. 2.3. Identify and acknowledge circumstances outside the young person's control. 2.4. Support the young person to communicate their issues and interests in a way that is suitable to their individual needs, background and culture, and confirm understanding. 2.5 Take action to address immediate issues or concerns. 2.6. Support young person's agency and right to self-determination.

3.1. Use methods suited to the young person to consider desired outcomes and create opportunities. 3.2. Perform work tasks within the scope of service delivery and according to organisational policies and procedures. 3.3. Assist young people to explore opportunities and ways of being. 3.4. Identify barriers that hinder the way young people want changes to take place.

4.1. Use youth work interventions to create opportunities by developing and implementing action plans. 4.2. Explore and access available resources needed to achieve planned goals. 4.3. Develop proposals, strategies and steps for completing action plans. 4.4. Evaluate action plan and adjust as required to achieve goals. 4.5. Document intervention work according to organisational policies and procedures.