Microcredential Summary
Understand the theories and approaches that inform homelessness practice and learn how to use them in everyday decisions. Explore systems and ecological perspectives, human rights and social justice, and trauma-informed and healing-centred practice. This micro-credential explores the key theories and frameworks that underpin effective service delivery, helping practitioners understand the complex factors that contribute to homelessness and respond with confidence, empathy, and professionalism.
Topics include human rights and social justice frameworks, systems theory and ecological perspectives, trauma-informed and healing-centred approaches, and understanding homelessness as a systems issue. Learners will also explore how to translate theory into everyday practice to support more holistic, person-centred, and collaborative responses for individuals and communities experiencing homelessness.
This online micro-credential provides a non-creditable micro-credential and digital badge which can be shared to your social networks and displayed in your professional portfolio.
Our micro-credentials are aligned to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
What is a Digital Badge?
Requirements - To Be Eligible
For your application to be considered, you must meet the following entry requirements.
Entry RequirementsOur short courses and micro-credentials are available for anyone to access. You do not have to be a CQUniversity student.
There are no specific entry requirements. This micro-credential is part of a foundational workforce development program designed to support the induction and capability development of Queensland's new and emerging homelessness workforce.
Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their continuing professional development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession.
Upon successful completion of the micro-credential, students will be awarded continuing professional development (CPD) hours, a digital badge and can download a certificate of completion.
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Student Outcomes, Career Opportunities and Occupations
Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their Continuing Professional Development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession.
Upon successful completion of the micro-credential, students will be awarded continuing professional development (CPD) hours, a digital badge and can download a certificate of completion.
2 hours of online self-paced learning. Students can access the micro-credential for one year from enrolment.
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1. Describe how human rights, social justice, and access to safe and appropriate housing influence people’s experiences of homelessness and shape respectful practice.
2. Recognise the individual, social, and systemic factors that contribute to homelessness and understand the importance of prevention and early intervention.
3. Describe how a person’s relationships, community connections, service systems, and broader social environment can influence their experiences and pathways into or out of homelessness.
4. Recognise the impact of trauma and adversity and apply trauma-informed and healing-centred principles to create safer and more supportive interactions.
5. Apply key theories and evidence-informed approaches to everyday homelessness practice, including person-centred engagement, collaboration, and reflective decision-making.
Award
Digital Badge via Credly.
Students can also download a Certificate of Completion, share to social media or add to a professional portfolio.