Youth Justice - Certificate IV

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Summary:This program provides you with the skills, techniques and theories in the area of youth justice. You will have the opportunity for practical experience. Graduates completing the program are working as youth justice workers in the community services field including residential and non-residential programs.
Delivery Mode:2 semesters full-time (approx. 20 hours per week) OR part-time equivalent
Job Opportunities:Youth justice worker in the community services field, including residential and non-residential programs
Entry Requirements:  You must have:
language, literacy and numeracy skills to be able to correctly recount information, read and write reports and client notes, read textbooks and write short answer questions.

If you are entering a program as a trainee under the Australian Apprenticeships arrangements you must be employed in the industry and register with an Australian Apprenticeships Centre prior to enrolment.
Availability:Student intake offered in Semester 1
Campus:
Qualification:Certificate IV Youth Justice (CHC41908)
This qualification meets the requirements of the Community Services Training Package (CHC08)
Program No:C4-HC20
Accredited:Training Package currently endorsed
Subjects:

To gain the Certificate IV in Youth Justice you must successfully complete the following.

Subject

Course No.

Title

Nat/State ID

Complete all

PSYC

180

Applied psychology I

HUSE

433

Mental health basics

HUSE

423

Casework I

HUSE

425

Counselling I

HUSE

431

Field preparation and group work

ATSI

102

Work effectively with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people

HLTHIR404B

HUSE

432

Introduction to addictions

LEGL

186

Law and social history

CLTS

113

Social diversity, sociology and ideologies

HUSE

430

Field placement I - youth justice

WELF

426

Youth justice studies

WELF 

418 

Responding to critical situations

 

Plus one of the following subjects 

HUSE 

435 

Supervision in a secure system 

 

OR 

HUSE 

436 

Supervision in the community 

 

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