Child and Youth Care – Livingwaters College of Healthcare

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!