Case Noting for Youth Work
This online course is tailored specifically for youth work professionals aiming to enhance their proficiency in writing comprehensive and impactful case notes. By enrolling in this course, professionals will deepen their understanding of their own capabilities and acquire the skills needed to produce high-quality case notes. The course content is framed by youth workers, drawing from extensive research and incorporating best practice-based strategies for documenting client interactions in diverse youth services contexts.
Throughout the course, participants will actively engage in sessions that foster a dynamic and fast-paced learning environment. These sessions provide a secure digital space for individuals to explore and refine their writing abilities through comprehensive exercises. Videos, templates and a wide variety of options to try out new ways of writing case notes.
This course is particularly relevant for professionals who directly interact with children and young people across various professional settings. Whether you work in educational institutions, community organizations, social services, or other related fields, the knowledge and skills acquired through this program will prove invaluable in effectively documenting and communicating professional client interactions.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course participants will be able to:
- Scrutinise the legal requirements around case notes
- Optimise case note presentation for the human services sector
- Organise your time to write case notes in a timely manner
- Articulate accurate and objective case notes
- Extrapolate the most relevant information to include in your case notes.
Aaron Garth
Aaron Garth is the Executive Director of Ultimate Youth Worker. Aaron has worked as a youth worker in a number of settings including local church, street drug and alcohol outreach, family services, residential care, local government and youth homelessness since 2003. Aaron is a regular speaker at camps, retreats, & youth work training events and is a dedicated to seeing a more professional youth sector in Australia. Aaron is a graduate of RMIT University and an alumnus of their youth work program. He lives in Melbourne with his wife Jennifer & their daughters Hope, Zoe, Esther, Niamh and son Ezra.
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