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Study bachelor degree online with University of New England through Open Universities Australia. Explore all degrees, subjects and short courses now.

At the heart of community services is a desire to help people – to promote social justice and inclusion, and enable people to flourish. UNE&#39;s flexibly delivered Bachelor of Community Services will enable you to develop the skills to empower individuals, marginalised groups and communities in complex and rapidly changing community and health settings. This course integrates real-world practice and contextual knowledge with an understanding of the theories and methods underpinning the effective practice of community services, as well as policy issues, and legal and ethical responsibilities that guide this practice.Community workers practice across the full spectrum of human services and play a vital role in empowering individuals, families, marginalised groups and communities who face disadvantage and societal problems. Whatever your career aspirations, whether you want to become a community welfare worker, case manager or service coordinator, you&#39;ll find community work rewarding, challenging and diverse. To succeed in today&#39;s complex, rapidly changing community and health settings, you&#39;ll need the skills to provide socially inclusive, culturally appropriate support to individuals and groups.Future-proof your career by developing transferable knowledge and skills. With UNE&#39;s Bachelor of Community Services you will understand the relevant social, economic and legal contexts of community services and become an agent of change, ready to provide help and support to enable people to flourish.

Make a difference in the lives of the marginalised. You’ll study community services theory blended with real-world experience. Build skills in case management, counselling, and fieldwork. Get ready for roles in welfare and community care settings.

Bachelor of Community Services

Introduction to Community Development

Indigenous Community Development

Community Health and Wellbeing

Building Cultural Capability in Health and Community Services

Development in Practice

Making Development Matter

Creative Ways to Work with Community

Transforming Lives Through Care

Overseas Aid and International Development

Social Policy and Community Action

In this subject you will examine the history of relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples, using the notion of whiteness to understand dispossession, resistance, adaptation and survival of Aboriginal peoples in Australia. Models of community development and cultural awareness will enable you to develop strategies to equip you for working with Aboriginal people in a variety of professional practices. You will be challenged to examine and reflect on the self as a conscious personal and professional actor within the dynamic of ethnic interchanges. This subject is developed and taught by Oorala Aboriginal Centre staff.

Grow your cultural awareness for better working relationships with Aboriginal people and the community. Explore the dominant concept of whiteness and start to think about Aboriginal perspectives. Learn through both historical and self reflections.

Working with Aboriginal People

This subject was previously known as Foundations of Community Health Work.This subject introduces the essential knowledge and skills you will need to advance you career in community health and welfare, with opportunities for you to use self-reflective practice to develop personally and professionally for effective community sector case work. With an emphasis on the ethics, values and philosophies underpinning community health work, you will build theoretical foundations to apply when providing community services. Examining distinctions between private and public issues in community development work, you will learn to effectively plan, coordinate, deliver, evaluate and improve community service activities. You will also explore ways to optimise individual outcomes when working in socially and culturally diverse settings.

Get ready to work with socially and culturally diverse communities to improve their wellbeing. Get to know the boundaries between what’s private and public. Explore your own personal biases. Be ethical and equitable in your decisions and caring.

Foundations of Community Work

This subject was previously known as Introductory Client Centred Health Care.Individual clients are at the heart of health care and community services. For a career in this fast-growing sector, you need a strong theoretical foundation in client-centered community services delivery. Studying this subject, you will gain an introduction to applying individual, community and statutory considerations to identify and assess needs and deliver appropriate services to clients. You will evaluate frameworks for optimal service delivery, including appropriate referral to alternative providers or organisations. Examining the principles of effective community services case work in the context of a service organisation, you will learn about the relationship between individual case workers and clients. You will explore issues of cultural diversity and cultural awareness as they apply to case work practice and professional relationships between case workers and clients. You will also assess a range of client issues and appropriate referral protocols you may encounter professionally.

Prepare for case work with clients of community services including healthcare and welfare. Build your understanding of cultural diversity and see how it impacts case workers and clients. Learn to assess client issues and refer them for the best care.

Introductory Client Centred Casework

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