|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
Programme Details |
| |
|
Title |
Working with Youths: Introduction |
Code |
SCYF5002 |
| |
Duration |
35.0
Hrs |
| |
|
| Course Fee | Fee (excludes GST) | Fee (includes GST) |
| Course Fee (After 80% funding from VCF capped at $1000) | $590.00 | $631.30 |
| Course Fee (Before Funding) | $1590.00 | $1701.30 |
|
| |
|
Target Participants |
Social workers, youth and community workers who are in their first three years of practice. More experienced workers who need a refresher course to keep up with the latest developments are also encouraged to attend
Advancement:
Participants who have completed this introductory programme are eligible to sign up for
the “Working with Youths –Intermediate” course. |
Learning Objective |
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
1) Demonstrate skills to analyse the needs of youths
2)Establish strategies to outreach to and engage youths
3) Appreciate the impact of elements affecting youths including family relationships, possible abuse, sexuality issues, stress etc
4) Determine youth work objectives in an effective and efficient manner
|
Course Outline |
1) Undertaking needs analysis based on the physical, mental, spiritual and social dimensions of a young person and identify pressures arising from these dimensions
2) Understanding the “cycle of failure”, the “success / failure” paradox and “escapist behaviour”
3) Understanding the basic needs (real and felt) of youths
4) Strategising involvement with young people
5) Key elements of expanding and developing support networks
6) Techniques in outreach work
7) Key elements, dynamics and issues in healthy and unhealthy families, and developing strategies to work with young people and their families
8) Facts and myths of abuse
9) Ways to become involved with abuse victims in order to take appropriate steps and utilise necessary protocols to ensure that abuse is stopped.
10) Sexuality issues in youth such as SIC, Kinsey scale and six stages of restoration
11) Techniques in counselling young people
12) Identify and describe performance standards for youth workers
13) Causes of stress and burnout of youth workers, and strategies to reduce them
Some contents may be emphasised or omitted depending on participants’ learning needs
|
Trainer |
Mike Garland currently works full-time in private practice as a counsellor, life coach, supervisor, social work consultant and trainer. He has many years of experience working with youths-at-risk, both in a professional and voluntary capacity. In his current practice, he specialises in work with adolescents, adult males, couples and families. He has also worked as lecturer in social and community work practice at Massey University, a trainer in the New Zealand Children, Young Person’s and Their Families Service, senior counsellor in a residential institution for at-risk adolescents, a correction officer in the criminal justice system and as a school teacher. He has 25 years of experience in voluntary and professional work with young people.
Darryl Gardiner is national director of Youth For Christ, New Zealand. Mr Gardiner has many years of experience in youth work. He has been a youth worker for more than twenty years. His experience includes sixteen years of running a Boy’s Home for teenage males referred from courts, police, schools and parents and directing a national programme working with youths-at-risk. He has conducted youth and community training programmes in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Europe.
|
Fee Remarks |
Applicable to eligible NCSS member/MCYS Funded VWO participants. |
Enquiries |
Naseem Begum / 62106667 / naseem_begum@ncss.gov.sg |
| |
|
|
| |
| < Back |
|
|
|