Highlights

• Specialise in child and family services, youth services, gender crime, Indigenous health, or policy skills and management.
• 500 hours of professional placement including opportunities in rural and regional Australia, and overseas.
• Prepare yourself for a career as a community development worker, welfare worker, youth worker, correctional counsellor, mental health, or disability services worker.

Why choose this course?

This career-oriented course is flexible and you will select areas of study that align with your interests such as child and family services, youth justice, gender crime, Indigenous health, mental health and disability residential care, or policy skills and management. It prepares you for having an impact on real-world problems through social change activities.

You will complete 500 hours of supervised professional experience which will develop your assessment and intervention skills, and your own practice framework. Our students have completed placements in neighbourhood centres, homelessness and outreach services, youth services, child safety, disability, and residential aged-care facilities. There are also opportunities to complete placements in regional and rural areas, or overseas.

You will learn from passionate staff who are human services practitioners, social workers, counsellors, anthropologists, political activists and advocates. They consult regularly with industry to ensure your degree reflects the emerging priorities of the profession.