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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Elements define the essential outcomes.
2. Encourage and support young people to develop and use networks
   • Identify and note young people’s issues, needs or interests in community issues
   • Encourage and support young people to identify common issues, needs and interests
   • Discuss possibilities for responding to identified common issues, needs and interests
   • Provide opportunities for young people with similar interests or needs
   • Support and encourage young people to identify relationships between their issues/interests and social structures
   • Encourage young people to work together to take joint action
3. Support young people to come together to plan collective action
   • Ensure young people have the relevant skills and knowledge to operate in a collective way
   • Map and monitor youth participation processes, particularly decision-making and inclusion processes of groups
   • Provide support, encouragement and opportunities to young people to enable them to communicate and interact with others to coordinate a planned action
4. Support young people to identify and form alliances with key stakeholders
   • Identify other stakeholders interested in the issue or strategy
   • Gauge the interest, resources and possible roles of stakeholders
   • Support young people in contacting, informing and negotiating alliances with stakeholders
   • Assist young people and stakeholders to maintain appropriate contact and information flow
   • Encourage young people to acknowledge key stakeholder support
5. Support young people to implement their strategies or action plans
   • Provide relevant information as required to individuals and the group to facilitate better operation of collective networks
   • Offer individual or group support on an ongoing basis
   • Use group processes to monitor progress and adapt or further develop plans
6. Assist young people to monitor and evaluate strategies
   • Support groups to monitor and record progress
   • Assist groups to identify outcomes and consequences (intended or unintended) of their actions on an ongoing basis
   • Evaluate strategies and group processes
   • Provide reports of outcomes as appropriate to stakeholders and within the organisation
   • Celebrate achievements, including personal development, skills development and social change

Range Statement

Specifies different work environments and conditions that may affect performance. Essential operating conditions that may be present (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) are included. Range is restricted to essential operating conditions and any other variables essential to the work environment.
Context for youth work must include one or more of the following:	centre-based work drop-in centres, recreational facilities housing and residential services outreach and home visits, street, parks schools online youth work, web-based, emails, discussion rooms telephone contact

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