Youth Development Work Principles and Practices Course 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.
Course Outcomes
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.
Course Outlines
Youth Development
- What is Youth development? and how does it influence youth work?
Youth Development theories and practices
- Interactionist perspective – Functional Perspective
Youth Development Values
- Enabling – Empowering
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
Youth development work: models and approaches
- Treatment Model
- Reform Model
- Advocacy Model
Youth Development Practices
- Detached and outreach
- Activity based
- Vocational
- Center or building based
- Crisis intervention
- Policy development and social planning
- Social action
- Health care
- Government
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)
