Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners

CHCYTH003 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Support young people to create opportunities in their lives

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Issue Date: March 2024


Qualification -
Unit of Competency CHCYTH003 - Support young people to create opportunities in their lives
Description
Employability Skills
Learning Outcomes and Application This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to assist young people to identify the challenges and opportunities in their lives and to work towards their goals on an individual or group level. This unit applies to work undertaken in all youth work roles where the young person is the primary client.The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice.
Duration and Setting X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting.
Prerequisites/co-requisites
Competency Field
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners Student Learning Resources Handouts
Activities
Slides
PPT
Assessment 1 Assessment 2 Assessment 3 Assessment 4
Elements of Competency Performance Criteria              
Element: Elements define the essential outcomes.
       
Element: 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
       
Element: 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
       
Element: Identify goals with the young person
  • Use creative methods, processes and questions to consider and create possibilities
  • Establish with the young person their desired outcomes
  • Assist young people to explore future possibilities and ways of being
  • Identify barriers that hinder the way young people would like changes to take place
       
Element:
  • Use a range of youth work interventions to create future opportunities
  • Explore additional resources needed to achieve goals
  • Develop proposals and strategies for action plans
  • Measure and ensure change is noticed
  • Document intervention work as required
       
Element: Develop and implement action plans
  • Use a range of youth work interventions to create future opportunities
  • Explore additional resources needed to achieve goals
  • Develop proposals and strategies for action plans
  • Measure and ensure change is noticed
  • Document intervention work as required
       


Evidence Required

List the assessment methods to be used and the context and resources required for assessment. Copy and paste the relevant sections from the evidence guide below and then re-write these in plain English.

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements define the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria specify the level of performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Create a relationship of trust and respect

1.1 Apply principles of youth work practice to facilitate safe individual or 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 to 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/s and way of interacting

2. Work with young people to identify their needs, rights, strengths, hopes and opportunities

2.1 Use a range of communication skills to identify and explore the young person’s challenges, strengths and resources

2.2 Encourage the client to reframe their current circumstances to support their own understanding

2.3 Identify and acknowledge circumstances outside the young person’s control

2.4 Support the young person to communicate their issues or problems in a way appropriate to their individual needs, background and culture

2.5 Take appropriate action to address immediate issues or concerns

2.6 Confirm own understanding of issues and opportunities with the young person

3. Identify goals with the young person

3.1 Use creative methods, processes and questions to consider and create possibilities

3.2 Establish with the young person their desired outcomes

3.3 Assist young people to explore future possibilities and ways of being

3.4 Identify barriers that hinder the way young people would like changes to take place

4. Develop and implement action plans

4.1 Use a range of youth work interventions to create future opportunities

4.2 Explore additional resources needed to achieve goals

4.3 Develop proposals and strategies for action plans

4.4 Measure and ensure change is noticed

4.5 Document intervention work as required


Submission Requirements

List each assessment task's title, type (eg project, observation/demonstration, essay, assignment, checklist) and due date here

Assessment task 1: [title]      Due date:

(add new lines for each of the assessment tasks)


Assessment Tasks

Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements define the essential outcomes.

Performance criteria specify the level of performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Create a relationship of trust and respect

1.1 Apply principles of youth work practice to facilitate safe individual or 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 to 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/s and way of interacting

2. Work with young people to identify their needs, rights, strengths, hopes and opportunities

2.1 Use a range of communication skills to identify and explore the young person’s challenges, strengths and resources

2.2 Encourage the client to reframe their current circumstances to support their own understanding

2.3 Identify and acknowledge circumstances outside the young person’s control

2.4 Support the young person to communicate their issues or problems in a way appropriate to their individual needs, background and culture

2.5 Take appropriate action to address immediate issues or concerns

2.6 Confirm own understanding of issues and opportunities with the young person

3. Identify goals with the young person

3.1 Use creative methods, processes and questions to consider and create possibilities

3.2 Establish with the young person their desired outcomes

3.3 Assist young people to explore future possibilities and ways of being

3.4 Identify barriers that hinder the way young people would like changes to take place

4. Develop and implement action plans

4.1 Use a range of youth work interventions to create future opportunities

4.2 Explore additional resources needed to achieve goals

4.3 Develop proposals and strategies for action plans

4.4 Measure and ensure change is noticed

4.5 Document intervention work as required

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

Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.

Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
 
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 
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 
Use creative methods, processes and questions to consider and create possibilities 
Establish with the young person their desired outcomes 
Assist young people to explore future possibilities and ways of being 
Identify barriers that hinder the way young people would like changes to take place 
Use a range of youth work interventions to create future opportunities 
Explore additional resources needed to achieve goals 
Develop proposals and strategies for action plans 
Measure and ensure change is noticed 
Document intervention work as required 
Use a range of youth work interventions to create future opportunities 
Explore additional resources needed to achieve goals 
Develop proposals and strategies for action plans 
Measure and ensure change is noticed 
Document intervention work as required 

Forms

Assessment Cover Sheet

CHCYTH003 - Support young people to create opportunities in their lives
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Assessment Record Sheet

CHCYTH003 - Support young people to create opportunities in their lives

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