Community Development Facilitator – SP211006

Description

QCTO Occupational Skills Programme, Form 4, Matrix Framework for Community Development Facilitator – SP211006

 

The purpose of this skills program is to prepare a learner to operate as a Community Development Facilitator for Drug and Alcohol Education and Awareness Interventions.
Effective Community Development relies on effective interventions within the community to improve conditions and social issues.

Drug and Alcohol abuse and addiction is one of the most major social issues in South Africa. It is at the root of Gender Based Violence, violent crime, domestic violence and road accidents just to name a few. As a community development intervention, it is a primary need of policing, community safety, social worker and social development officials.

However, it has been voiced by many such officials that they are lacking adequate or effective interventions for preventive action. Education is one of the most powerful preventative action that can be used.
This training program will train those working in community development, policing, social work, social development work, education and many other sectors in extensive education material on alcohol and many of the common drugs and substances. It is meant to provide extensive specialist knowledge on what each substance is, what it looks like, what it is made of, what its short term and long term effects are on the mind and body. It provides researched information as to why people use drugs, how addiction works, and many case histories covering these facts. This is intended to be presented in simple language, not medical language, so that it can be used in a powerful and effective community development intervention—empowering the community with knowledge to make better decisions with regard to drug and alcohol abuse.

It will enable him to learn and attain basic drug education himself, in order to attain insight on what drugs really are and how they affect the society and the world.
The learner will learn how this will transform into his own performance in facilitation of drug and alcohol education intervention.

This will also cover the basic administration and organization procedures to form sustainable drug education/awareness chapters and basic public relations techniques to raise awareness to and promote a drug and alcohol abuse awareness/education intervention.

A qualified learner will be able to:

• Have a deep personal understanding of the effects of drug and alcohol abuse and its effects on a person, a family, the workplace and a community.
• Facilitate a community based drug and alcohol abuse education or awareness activity.
• Organize, schedule and facilitate a drug and alcohol abuse education and awareness intervention.
• Compile and present a Community Development Intervention report.
• Apply foundational marketing and public relations tools in a community development context
• Establish, organize and operate a formal practice or chapter for the performance of this intervention

 

Note: The framework consists of the Knowledge Module Titles, Practical Module Titles, Workplace Experience Module Titles (if applicable to curriculum), Topics and elements – the developer is required to slot in the page numbers against each topic, topic element and codes which is provided in the framework.