Child and Youth Care Professional Certification Board

Information
Domain
Organizations / Agencies / Networks related to Youth Support Work
Country
USA
Sector
Public
Level of Organization
Regional/Land
Organization's Role
Education Research
Skills (if listed on the website)

-Advocacy skills

-Counseling skills

-Effective verbal and non-verbal communications skills:

  • Use of silence
  • Appropriate non-verbal communication
  • Active listening
  • Empathy and reflection of feelings
  • Questioning skills
  • Use of door openers to invite communication
  • Paraphrasing and summarization to promote clear communication
    • Awareness
    • Avoidance of communication roadblocks

-Teaching skills

Target beneficiaries

All type of youth work practitioners

Comments

The CYC Competencies are organized across five domains:

  1. Professionalism
  2. Cultural & human diversity
  3. Applied human development
  4. Relationship & communication
  5. Developmental practice methods

https://www.cyccb.org/competencies; Competencies for Professional Child and Youth Work Practitioners 2010 [https://www.cyccb.org/images/pdfs/2010_Competencies_for_Professional_CYW...