Accredited+Training


 * Training**

**Background:** In response to its need to provide training for its trainee youth workers, Sunrise Health Services approached Charles Darwin University to provide accredited VET training from the Community Services Training Package that was delivered in the community. The following qualifications were delivered in full and in part to participants in the Wugularr Community Futures Project.


 * Certificate II in Community Services (CHC20202)
 * Certificate III in Youth Work (CHC30602)

Training has taken place over a series of intensive teaching blocks in and around the community across 2008 lasting from 3 days to two weeks. Learners also were mentored by the Sunrise Health Services youth worker, Geoff Lohmeyer who provided learners with a practice environment.

"As a trainer I have found this to be a challenging and rewarding time. I have definitely improved as a teacher. I have developed new understandings of my role and of indigenous culture in Wugularr. I have learned that to succeed here it is about developing relationships based on trust which takes time. I have also learned to be more flexible and listen more to what expeeriences learners have had in their community." **Stuart Anderson**//
 * Teacher/Trainer Reflections**//:

//"In this class we were learning about what makes a good story and what doesn't for youth. We about perceptions how people look at kids and youth differently. Sometimes people are scared of youth, sometimes they dont care. Youth workers should look at kids and youth and how they are viewed in the community." **Chester Hood**//
 * Classroom Based Delivery**

//"In this class we were learning about how to read the stories from the articles. We looked at which stories were bad and good so we had to look through them. It was pretty hard, but to me it was easy. The best part about it was I've learnt that we were looking and reading about young teenagers just like us."//

//"I also wanted to talk about drugs and alcohol in our community; we used to have alot of young people smoking gunja. But we had a person from sunrise come in to Beswick and started to talk to the young people which that was really good. So I started to join the youth workers and get trained so that we can make our community strong again, this is were alot of us come together and make good things happen in our community" **Cerise Farrell**//

//"The lesson we are doing here is teambillding and communication. We are telling eachother what position the block's go in when we are sitting back to back and cant see eachother, seeing if we can get the same tower. We were learning to billd a strong team at the youth center. Working outside broke it down for us and made it more easier for us to understand and how to work out problems." **Terrence Gore**//
 * Outdoor Classroom on Country**

Click on the audio files below to hear examples of our roleplays for CHCS401A, Facilitate Co-operative Behaviours and CHCAOD6C Work With Cients who are intoxicated.
 * Roleplay Assessment of Client Intervention Skills**

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//As their major assessment task learners were asked to come up with a small asset based community development project based out of the Youth Centre. Successful execution of this task provided vital assessment evidence against a large number of units in their courses. Learners took on this task enthusiastically resulting in a great week of activities, and an interesting and varied teaching and learning experience." **Stuart Anderson
 * Community Project Based Learning and Assessment**

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Check out this page to see more about the Youth week project activities.

//"On Saturday I helped plan and to take some young kids down at the falls. We did some activities like Bushwalking, Swimming and Fishing.For the kids to be safe it was my responsibilty, this was my duty of care. We had a good fun day and we caught barra's and we went back home at night. "// **//David Ryan// **
 * Flexible Recognition of Current Competence**

//"At this session we got tegether a group of high school girls along with their teacher to play a game. The game was to reflect on their feelings. By the end of the session each and every one of them learned a bit more about eachother and their feelings. The session was one of our assessments for the training we're doing as youth workers." **Deanna Kennedy**//
 * Asessment by Observation of Supervised Practice**