Course description
Youth Work Principles and Practices
This program is designed to introduce you to a range of different approaches to working with young people. You may already have experience of youth work. If so, then you have been working in a wide-ranging and complex field. However, you may have experience of only one type of youth work practice. We have designed this program so that you can get a clear understanding of several of the key practices in youth work. This will enable you to develop your insight and skill by allowing you to draw on a rich frame of reference.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
- Student activities coordinators.
- Young leaders.
- Youth workers in government departments, corporates and NGOs.
- School and University teachers.
- Professionals responsible for policy formulation and strategy development in youth focused organizations.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
When you successfully complete this program, you should be able to:
- Define Youth Development concept.
- Briefly describe, in your own words, the history and position of youth development work in your country.
- Delineate the professional role of the youth worker.
- Explain the important factors that have affected youth development work and that influence current trends.
- Begin working effectively with young people and adults in enabling them to improve the quality of their lives.
- Select from a range of different approaches to youth development work those that are most appropriate to specific circumstances.
Training Course Content
Course Outline
Day 1
- Youth Development
- What is Youth development? and how does it influence youth work?
- Youth Development theories and practivcies
- Interactionist perspective - Functional Perspective
- Youth Development Values
- Enabling - Empowering
Day 2
- Youth development work: history and traditions
- Youth development work in families and communities
- Youth work as social and leisure provision
- Out of school education
- Youth work for national development
- Youth welfare work
Day 3
- Youth development work: models and approaches
- Treatment Model
- Reform Model
- Advocacy Model
- Conscientisation Model
- Youth Development Practices
Day 4
- Youth Worker roles and methods
- Working face to face with young people in a variety of settings
- Managing and supporting other paid and volunteer workers
- Formulating and developing community policies for governmental and non-governmental organisations (NGOs)