• Community Development
• The principles of community development
• Community development process
• Sanitation

• The adult learner
• Outcomes-based learning – The South African learning context
• Develop learning material
• Planning a learning event
• Facilitate a learning event
• Assessment and reflection

• Essential facts about STIs, HIV & AIDS
• STI Prevention
• HIV pre- and post test counselling
• The impact of STIs & HIV on vulnerable groups
• HIV Treatment, care and support
• The rights of HIV positive people

• Risk behaviour
• Changing risk behaviour
• Interventions

• Basic nutritional principles
• Maintaining body weight
• Read and interpret food labels
• Design plan for healthy eating and safe food consumption
• Refer special needs to appropriate practitioner
• Health enhancing dietary supplements

• Defining lay counselling
• Lay counselling
• The lay counsellor
• The lay counselling approach
• The counselling environment
• Legal and ethical aspects of lay counselling
• Reflection on the counselling process

• Language in communication
• Oral communication
• Writing
• Money matters

• The concept of stress
• Identifying the causes of stress
• Reactions to stress
• Managing stress

• Defining the concepts
• Emotional vs. rational mind
• Exploring the central nervous system
• Emotional intelligence
• Spiritual intelligence

• Some approaches to a development context: Introductory thoughts
• The contexts within which people live
• The concept: development context
• Development context, social exclusion and social capital
• Sustainable livelihoods
• The community as system
• Strengths of a development context
• Development context, audit and profile

• Human functioning
• Human development
• Approach to human problems
• A system of people, problems and context
• Human problem systems
• Problem solving process

• The difference between legislation, regulations and policies
• Legislation impacting on social work and social auxiliary work
• Legislation impacting on social service delivery
• The Children’s Act 38 of 2005
• Children’s Amendment Bill
• Legislation Impacting on the Working Environment

• Understanding Communication
• Communication Skills
• Fundamentals of Working with Groups
• Phases of the group process
• Solving problems in groups
• Techniques (group and individual)

• Introduction to research
• Research methods

• Introduction
• Definition
• Functions of report writing
• Types of reports
• Format and content of reports
• Requirements for the writing of a good report
• Handling and storage of reports

• Social Casework (Micro level)
• Group Work (Meso level)
• Community Work

Primary Methods

• Management and Administration
• Research

• Definition of a Programme
• Definition of a Project
• Characteristics of a Project

The Project Cycle

• Introduction
• Project Steps
• A Closing Thought

• Development
• The Development Context
• Principles of Community Development
• Sustainable Development
• The Process of Community Development

• Prepare for training
• Facilitate training
• Evaluate Learning & Facilitation

• Self assessment
• Definition of supervision
• Objectives of supervision
• Functions of supervision
• Context of supervision
• Models of social work supervision
• Ethical issues in supervision
• Competencies of supervisors
• Supervision process

• What Leadership is
• Leadership versus Management
• Leadership Styles
• Leading a Team
• Expectancy and Conflict
• Lateral Leadership
• When Leadership Goes Wrong

• Management and The Organization
• Key Organizational Concepts Four Underlying Dimensions
• Evolution of Management Thought
• Management Functions and Roles

• Understand the importance of the strategy to the organization
• Identify the characteristics of effective strategy managers
• Understand the ten main strategy schools
• Implement a Five Step Strategy Model
• Outline the Vision and Mission of your organization
• Identify strategic and financial objectives
• Understand how to implement, execute and evaluate an organizational strategy

• Identify the main obstacles to maximizing personal productivity.
• Understand the components of productivity and their interdependencies
• Understand the importance of proper planning.
• Explain the benefits of an effective and proactive approach to personal productivity.
• Use time management techniques to improve your productivity

• What is Time Management?
• Time Management Principles
• Productive Work
• Crisis Management
• Planning
• Tips and Techniques

• Understand what a Problem is
• Approaches to problem solving
• Understand problem solving techniques
• Benchmarking and PDCA
• Understand why problem solving fails

• Introduction to Interpersonal Skills
• Behavioural Types
• Push Styles
• Pull And Moving-Away Styles
• Emotional Intelligence