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Title
Describe community-based youth services and support a young
person to access services
Level
4
Credits
6
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: identify and
describe community-based youth services; provide information
on community-based youth services; and assist a young
person to access a community-based youth service.
Classification
Social Services > Youth Work
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
1
People awarded credit for this unit standard are able to describe the meaning of the
articles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and the relevance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi to youth work.
They are able to apply this competence to the context of assessment against this unit
standard. For further clarification, please refer to Unit 16844, Describe the meaning
and relevance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in youth work.
2
Glossary:
Characteristics and needs of youth may be physical, spiritual, or mental.
Characteristics include: age and stage of development, coping strategies, culture,
disabilities, experience and knowledge, gender, health status, personal history,
language, sexual orientation, socio-economic situation, risk and resiliency factors.
Needs include physical comfort, safety, and privacy.
Needs for services include cultural, physical, spiritual, and mental needs, and may
include but are not limited to: abuse, neglect, and violence issues; alcohol and drug
issues; alternative care; ageing; career guidance and employment; criminal justice;
cultural needs; disabilities; economic development; education; finance and income
support; gender issues; grief and loss; housing and land; human rights; infertility and
pregnancy; legal issues; physical and mental health; recreation; sexuality; youth
issues; whānau, hapü, and iwi needs.
Sources of information on services may include but are not limited to: Citizen's
Advice Bureaux, community houses, libraries, social service directories, social
service networks, agency or organisational information data bases and directories,
statutes, statutory regulations, bylaws, telephone directories, training providers,
advertisements, promotional materials, pamphlets, videos, websites, youth service
directories, youth work directories.
Young person/people is used as a generic term to denote people from user groups of
the youth services, who may be individuals, young couples, families or whānau with
youth, or groups of youth.
This unit standard is
expiring
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Assessment notes:
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This unit standard may be assessed against evidence of demonstrated performance
in the workplace, or through the use of simulated workplace situations that closely
approximate the performance required in workplace settings.
4
All communications are treated confidentially. The scope and limits of confidentiality
are defined through negotiation and informed consent, and criteria established by
legislation, ethical practice, and youth work agency guidelines. In the context of this
unit standard, sources of criteria established by legislation, ethical practice, and
youth work agency guidelines include but are not limited to: Official Information Act
1982, Privacy Act 1993, youth work agency codes of conduct, codes of practice
issued by the Privacy Commissioner, youth work codes of ethics, and youth work
agency, protocols, staff manuals, strategic plans. Relevant additional legislation and
the codes of conduct, and youth work agency guidelines will be determined
according to the context of assessment.
5
Legislation relevant to this unit standard may include but is not limited to: Children,
Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989; Crimes Act 1961; Human Rights Act
1993; Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992; Official Information Act 1982;
Privacy Act 1993.
6
a
Resources:
Ministry of Youth Affairs. 2002. Youth development strategy Aotearoa – Action for
child and youth development. Wellington: Ministry of Youth Affairs. Available online
from the Ministry of Youth Development (http://www.myd.govt.nz), along with
supporting documents.
United Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child and Convention on the Rights of
the Child, which may be found online at:
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/intlinst.htm
http://www.unicef.org/crc/.
b
Outcomes and evidence requirements
This unit standard is
Identify and describe community-based youth services.
expiring
Evidence requirements
Outcome 1
1.1
The description lists youth service providers in the community from each of the
major categories of social service providers.
Range
1.2
major categories of social service providers – central government,
regional government, local government, non-governmental
organisations, iwi/Māori social services, Pacific Island social
services.
Evidence is required of one youth service provider from each
category.
Services for youth who are affected by misuse of alcohol and other drugs are
described.
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Range
1.3
nature of the services may include but is not limited to – culturally
specific services, emergency services, mental health services,
physical health services, sexual health services, spiritual health
services.
Evidence is required of identification of three services, one of
which must be mental health services.
Sources of legal information for youth are described.
Range
1.5
service categories – cultural, assessment, detoxification,
education and information giving, public health, counselling, family
or whānau support, community support, short term and long term
residential and non-residential treatment, self-help groups,
telephone counselling, adventure based learning.
Evidence is required for one service for three categories in the
range.
Selected health services are described according to the nature of the services
they provide for youth.
Range
1.4
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community law centres; youth law centres; public libraries;
education provider libraries; book shops that stock law related
materials; barristers and solicitors in private practice; duty
solicitors; criminal and civil legal aid; Citizens Advice Bureaux.
Evidence is required of three sources for legal information.
Services are described in terms of their accessibility and availability.
Range
accessibility and availability may include but are not limited to –
costs to access the service, eligibility criteria, target populations,
physical access.
Evidence is required of two access and availability criteria for each
of two youth services.
This unit standard is
Outcome 2
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Provide information on community-based youth services.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Provision of information meets the needs of the youth requiring information.
2.2
Provision of information is within criteria established by legislation, ethical
practice, and youth work agency guidelines.
2.3
Provision of information is through methods of presentation that match the
characteristics and needs of the youth requiring the information.
Outcome 3
Assist a young person to access a community-based youth service.
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Evidence requirements
3.1
Services to be accessed are selected according to the young person's strengths
and needs for services.
strengths may include but are not limited to – knowledge; skills;
values; family or whānau support; existing assets and financial
resources.
Evidence is required of one strength.
Range
3.2
Assistance to the young person is provided according to the young person’s
requirements.
requirements may include but are not limited to – to be
accompanied in accessing services; to be supported in accessing
services; advocacy; brokerage; further information; referral needs.
Evidence is required of one requirement.
Range
3.3
Assistance to the young person encourages self-determination and discourages
dependency by them on the youth worker.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
26 November 2007
31 December 2016
Review
2
19 March 2015
31 December 2018
Rollover
3
17 September 2015
31 December 2018
This unit standard is
expiring
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0222
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Please note
Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and
which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that
applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies
to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing
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to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors
and assessors, and special resource requirements.
This unit standard is
expiring
Community Support Services ITO Limited
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