This Work Integrated Learning (WIL) course provides a 28-day (210-hour) placement in a youth work-oriented agency. Through this comprehensive placement experience, you will bridge academic theory with professional practice while developing practical skills while being supported and supervised by the placement organisation. The Learning Plan associated with this course focuses on your emerging identity and capabilities as a youth worker; and requires you to draw upon previous studies in youth work practice skills, ethics, policy, research. 

You will be expected to complete in pre-semester preparations, ensuring you have a Working With Children Check, Police Check and other requirements in place; RMIT will assist you to match and interview with a relevant placement agency.  

This course is undertaken in conjunction with the HWSS2264 Group and Community Engagement course where you will undertake similar learning activities related to this course. 

The assessments in this course will assist you to critically evaluate and articulate your growing professional practices using scholarly frameworks and personal insights. You will be supported to begin to translate your youth work knowledge into professional competence and ethical practice.