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Child and Youth Care Training Program
Most of the courses in this program are accessible in Livingwaters in a flexible delivery style, which uses a hybrid delivery model. Some coursework is available online, while others can be finished in person.
The programme will give you access to a wide variety of intervention, preventive, and treatment options to help children, adolescents, and families who require support with their emotional, social, developmental, or mental health make positive changes. In-depth instruction and training in behavioural theories, methods, and a fundamental knowledge of evaluation, intervention, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and activities with children and youth will be provided to you.
About The Program
What You Will Learn In The Classroom
The Child and Youth Care Training Program at Livingwaters College will equip you to support the healthy development of kids, teens, and their families. Students learn how to identify needs, create, and implement programmes and planned settings, and use ordinary occurrences to encourage and enable change. Foundational knowledge in baby, child, and adolescent development, relational practise principles for child and youth care, family dynamics, evidence-based or evidence-informed intervention modalities, group dynamics, cultural humility, and therapeutic activities are all included in the curriculum.
With many courses stressing self-reflection and the classroom serving as a professional practise environment, you will discover that self-awareness is a crucial element of professional practise. You can handle the rigours of dealing with children and young people who have complicated needs thanks to your high level of energy and emotional maturity.
Modules covered in-class include:
- Introduction to Child and Youth Care
- Child and Adolescent Development
- Introduction to Mental Health for Child and Youth Care
- Mental Health Literacy for Child and Youth Care
- Fundamentals of Case Management
- Issues, Ethics & Inclusivity in Child and Youth Care
- Record Keeping and Documentation
- Crisis Intervention Strategies
- At Risk Youth and Youth Justice
- Trauma-Informed Practises With Children and Adolescents
- Interviewing Skills
- Counselling Children and Adolescents
- Child and Youth Care Practise with Families
- Interventions with Children and Youth
- Advocacy and Welfare of Children and Adolescents
- CYC Practitioner and Health Promotion Strategies
- Child and Youth Care Project
- Program Review and Final Exam
Is a Rewarding Career as a Child and Youth Care Worker Right for You?
What You Will Learn In The Labs
Professors use cutting-edge learning environments and technology to instruct students in a classroom or lab while simultaneously broadcasting the lesson to students taking the course remotely. Students who enrol in flexible courses have the option of attending class in person or online.
To warp up, you will learn how to deal with at-risk kids, teens, and families who are having developmental, mental health, emotional, and behavioural issues through this curriculum.
What You Will Do During Career Search
With the help of our programme, you can reap the benefits of a profession where you significantly improve children’s and adolescents’ lives by:
- Enhancing existing skills and abilities while cooperating.
- Using relational practise and creating therapeutic partnerships.
- Locating and putting children, teens, and their families in contact with pertinent, culturally acceptable, and community resources.
- Knowing and learning about the complicated problems that children, youth, and families confront.
- Leveraging possibilities presented by events in daily life to encourage and enable constructive transformation.
- Working as a member of a multidisciplinary area.
Courses
Here is a list of some courses:
Introduction to Child and Youth Care
The Child and Youth Care Worker Program is designed to teach students the necessary practical skills and theory to work with adolescents, children, and families with diverse needs: including social, emotional, behavioural, and mental health concerns.
Child and Adolescent Development
This course focuses on child and adolescent development with emphasis on current research and theory on biological, linguistic, cognitive, social, and emotional dimensions of development.
Introduction to Mental Health for Child and Youth Care
The course provides some useful information on how to assist a young person who has a history of a mental illness or longer-term mental health and/or substance use problems, as well as how to support a young person in crisis.
Mental Health Literacy for Child and Youth Care
In this module it provides a concise yet comprehensive summary of mental health difficulties from both a psychological and CYC perspective. It presents the psychology content alongside specific CYC theories, models and interventions using language congruent to the CYC approach.
Career Opportunities
Our alumni have options to work in a range of places, such as:
- Agencies that defend children.
- Local initiatives for the development of children and adolescents.
- Programmes for early intervention and prevention.
- Homes for adolescents involved in the criminal justice system that are open custody.
- Family assistance and parent education.
- Psychological institutions.
- Children’s mental health facilities offer both residential and day therapy options.
- School-based initiatives
- Shelters for women and children.
Admissions Process
Our mission as a child and youth care worker college is to impact people with acquired skills and knowledge. To raise seasoned, compassionate and qualified healthcare workers.
We can’t do this without you.
We have designed a four step admissions process that ensures we admit the right students with the potential to become great graduates that serve their communities with excellence.
Connect with Us
The first step is to connect with our admissions team, we are here for you! We know you have questions the good news is we have answers. All you have to do to get started is fill out a form, call, text, email or even yell if you are close enough and we will commence your academic journey!
Confidential Interview
Now let’s get a little serious. When we meet, we will review your academic and career goals, talk about your options and determine your eligibility.
The key for LWCH is that you possess the right Attitude and Aptitude to be successful as a student and more importantly an employed Graduate of LWCH. The interview and evaluations will help us determine your eligibility. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it?
Financial Assessment
Whether you have been fortunate enough to put money aside or you just can’t seem to imagine how you would pay for College, not to worry, we have a Team here to help. I know free would be preferred, but you know what they say, the best things in life are never free! During this appointment, we will determine your eligibility with one of our many different financial aid options.
Financial assistance may be available for those who qualify.
Enrollment Ready!
Last but certainly not the least, after all the meetings and deliberation, we did it!
You are excited, comfortable with your chosen field and it is now time to put pen to paper and enroll.
Your admissions representative will take you step by step through all the forms to ensure you are prepared for the journey ahead.
We look forward to welcoming you to the Livingwaters College of Healthcare family soon!