For trade description and skills, see Child and Youth Worker: Apprenticeship Training Standard
Skills
Protect Self and Others
- Maintain a safe environment
- Conduct routine safety inspections
- Practice and implement emergency procedures
- Plan and implement activities
- Practice crisis intervention techniques
- Implement physical restraint techniques
- Teach and model safety practices
- Identify signs and symptoms of substance abuse
- Identify signs and symptoms of physical, sexual or emotional abuse
- Respond to accidents, incidents, and occurrences
- Protect self and others
Practice and Promote Health
- Arrange for health care opportunities
- Review client’s medical, social, and mental health histories
- Administer medications
- Store medications
- Monitor client’s repsonse to medication
- Recognize and report signs and symptoms of client`s health problems
- Monitor client`s nutritional intake
- Teach and model nutritional practices
- Promote physical health
- Teach and monitor hygiene
- Provide information on human sexuality
Practice Professionalism and Ethics
- Interact with clients
- Work within the limits of legislation and agency policies
- Assist clients to access information
- Promote enhancing behaviour
- Provide non- threatening supportive services
- Advocate client`s rights and interest
Communicate with Clients and Other Professionals
- Observe client behaviour
- Communicate with clients, colleagues, supervisors and other health and social care professional
- Interpret and respond to non-verbal communication
- Collect, analyse and present information in verbal form.
- Collect, analyse and present information in written form.
- Adjust communication style
Build a Relationship
- Demonstrate interest in client
- Provide opportunities for client to build self-esteem
- Negotiate client focused goats
- Follow through on commitments
- Delineate roles of self and client
- Respond/react to client’s behaviour and needs
Provide Counselling
- Establish counselling environment
- Establish a working relationship
- Initiate counselling
- Facilitate client’s identification of goat(s)
- Assist client in developing an action plan
- Assist in client in implementation of action plan
- Monitor and evaluate progress
- Modify/reverse the action plan
- Participate in termination of the counselling relationship
Plan Programs
- Determine the client’s physical, mental, social and emotional requirements
- Assess client(s) strengths and weaknesses
- Assist in identifying client goals
- Assist in designing treatment programs
- Co-ordinate activities
- Implement program plan
- Assist in evaluating the client program
- Modify/revise program
Apply Intervention Strategies
- Apply behaviour modification techniques
- Use cognitive restructuring
- Use conflict resolution skills
- Assist clients to develop anger management skills
- Teach clients life and social skills
- Use natural and logical consequences
- Be a positive role mode
- Teach clients alternatives to confrontation
Work in a Group Setting
- Identify purpose and goals of formal and informal group
- Specify roles of group leader(s)
- Plan and orgnaize group activities
- Lead and facilitate group activities
- Enhance group participation
- Evaluate Group interaction and productivity
- Modify Objectives based on evaluation results
Work with Family
- Establish and maintain client files
- Record family dynamics
- Assist in the identification and assessment of client`s needs
- Establish goals and develop a plan of action
- Plan and facilitate family members interaction
- Teach parenting and life skills
- Supervise family visits
- Assist family to access community resources
- Facilitate family members to assert and express themselves
Cultivate Community Relations
- Identify and refer clients to community resources
- Educate community
- Liaise with other agencies
- Provide consultative services to community and organizations
- Liaise and integrate services with community agencies
- Advocate public participation in social issues and public policy
Participate in a Team Environment
- Promote and maintain professional conduct
- Acknowledge individual differences
- Negotiate and resolve conflict
- Support team members
- Participate as a team member
Develop Self
- Participate in own performance evaluation
- Identify areas requiring updating of skills
- Develop an activity plan
- Maintain a currency in the profession
- Identify transference and counter- transference
- Separate personal from professional issues
- Practice stress management
- Identify and respond to traumatic situations
Perform Organizational Duties
- Complete oral or written reports/documentation
- Perform administrative duties
- Testify in court
- Assist in updating agency policy and procedures
- Schedule workplans and manage workload
For more information, see Ontario College of Trades Training Standards
