College Certificate IV - Child, Youth and Family Intervention + College Diploma - Mental Health

This qualification covers those who work in youth and family intervention, including practice specialisations in child protection. Workers are under a broad supervision framework and operate within clearly defined organisation guidelines, service plans, and position specifications.

These workers may include paraprofessional and recognised entities:

• Carry out activities related to maintenance of a child or young person at risk, personal care and/or other activities of living • Report directly to the supervisor and may at times be partially responsible for providing support to other workers • Possibly undertake higher levels of report preparation and case notes, especially in relation to supervised access visits • May provide out of home care

The Diploma of Mental Health covers workers who provide a range of community services focusing on:

• Rehabilitation and support for people affected by mental illness and psychiatric disability. • Implementing community-based activities focusing on mental health, mental illness and psychiatric disability, and • Mental health promotion work.

This qualification reflects the role of workers who provide services to clients in relation to mental health issues. They can provide counselling, referral, advocacy, and education/health promotion services. These workers are required to have high-level specialist knowledge, skills, and competencies especially in regard to laws affecting people with mental health issues, the range of services available to them and health issues related to mental health.