Plan and Conduct Group Activities

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CHCGROUP403D - Plan and conduct group activities: Assignment 1 What you have to do Read the following case study and respond to the questions that follow. Your assignment should be written in question and answer format. How you will be assessed This unit is competency based. In order to be deemed competent in this unit you must satisfy all elements specific to the unit and the essential knowledge and critical aspects of assessment in a range of situations. The assignment has been developed to cover these criteria and your OTEN teacher will review all assignments and assess your overall result to deem you competent in each unit. Please reference your work. Referencing guides are available on the OLS under Assessment Guidelines. Task Case study You are a worker at the Whitford Community Centre. The centre is based in a large housing estate on the fringe of a major city. The area has only been established for a relatively short time. A significant number of the residents have very low incomes or are in receipt of Centrelink benefits. The centre has focused its efforts on lobbying the local council and the state government for resources and an improved infrastructure (public transport, parks, shopping centres, and so on). Workers have also provided a crisis welfare service to people living on the estate. At the last staff-planning day, a number of workers stated concerns about the amount of people they have seen who expressed feeling lonely and isolated. The theme of what workers were saying seemed to be that refugees, people who can’t afford to live closer to the city and people who are in Department of Housing accommodation, make up the bulk of people who live in this area. Most residents do not have family living nearby and the vast majority do not appear to have made many friends. Many of the residents are either
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