Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Create a relationship of trust and respect
- Apply principles of youth work practice to facilitate safe individual or group processes for interaction
- Identify the conditions necessary for young people to change and grow
- Listen to and observe the young person’s stories experiences, and behaviour to clarify concerns and needs
- Encourage and support young people to identify relationships between their issues and social structures
- Respect the young person’s culture/s and way of interacting
- Work with young people to identify their needs, rights, strengths, hopes and opportunities
- Use a range of communication skills to identify and explore the young person’s challenges, strengths and resources
- Encourage the client to reframe their current circumstances to support their own understanding
- Identify and acknowledge circumstances outside the young person’s control
- Support the young person to communicate their issues or problems in a way appropriate to their individual needs, background and culture
- Take appropriate action to address immediate issues or concerns
- Confirm own understanding of issues and opportunities with the young person
- Identify goals with the young person
- Develop and implement action plans