Child and Youth Care Professional Certification Board

Information

Site: https://www.cyccb.org/
Domain: Organizations / Agencies / Networks related to Youth Support Work
Sector: Public
Level of organization: Regional/Land
Country: USA
Organization's role: Education Research
Skills:

-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_Practitioners.pdf]