CHCDIS017 - Facilitate community participation and social inclusion

Unit code: CHCDIS017 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours:
60
Location
City Campus
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to develop and facilitate person-centred strategies for participation in various community settings, functions and activities to enhance the psychosocial wellbeing and lifestyle of a person with disability.This unit applies to workers in varied disability contexts. Work performed requires a range of well developed, person-centred skills where some discretion and judgement is required and workers will take responsibility for their own outputs.

Assessment

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Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each units learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • assist at least three people with disability to develop and implement community engagement plans within their individualised plan, including:
  • identifying the person’s needs and preferences through a process of collaboration
  • matching services and networks to the person’s needs and preferences
  • facilitating access to opportunities for the person to establish connections and minimise isolation
  • identifying and addressing barriers to participation
  • identifying and addressing risks.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • elements of best practice in the area of community participation and social inclusion
  • the impact of social devaluation on an individual’s quality of life
  • principles of:
  • active support
  • lifespan development
  • strengths-based and person-centred practice
  • risk assessment and mitigation
  • social and emotional wellbeing frameworks
  • human rights framework for service
  • systemic and structural barriers impacting individual and community participation
  • funding frameworks and their impact on community participation
  • legal and ethical considerations relevant to working with people with disability:
  • duty of care
  • dignity of risk
  • human rights, including the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)
  • strategies for:
  • identifying interests, abilities and requirements of people with disability
  • communication to assist with community participation
  • supporting the person’s participation in work
  • strategies that can be used by employers to facilitate the person’s inclusion and engagement in the workplace
  • organisational policies and procedures for:
  • accessing resources
  • evaluating implementation of strategies.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate IV in Disability Support
CHC43121 | Certificate iv | Duration:

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