You might be the adult a young person already talks to. It covers trauma care, mental health, family violence and crisis response. Placement puts you in a service with a team.
The work is trust, patience and knowing what to do next.
Crisis response, family violence, mental health, risk.
Placement sits you in a service that runs every day.
Communication and ethics first, then the hard cases, then placement.
Three reasons this course goes deeper.
A module of its own, not a paragraph.
Planning and running group activities with young people.
You learn where a service sits in its town.
Plus a hundred and sixty placement hours
Issued once the modules and placement are done.
Logged inside a working youth service.
Trauma informed care, risk, crisis response.
The full module list and placement rules.
Which service, and how the hours fit.
Upfront, in four, or weekly.
Start with communication and ethics.
None on paper. Life experience helps a lot.
A minimum of one hundred and sixty hours.
The college does, through SkilTrak.
Yes. Trauma informed care has a module of its own.
You can support them inside a service. Counselling registration is a separate path with its own study.
None, ever. Written tasks, quizzes and role plays instead.
Most services ask for a working with children check.
Any day. There are no semester intakes.
Open Colleges delivers this course online, from Australia.
Placement is arranged with SkilTrak. Three sector trainers run the course.
Picture the young person who keeps showing up because you did.