The Certificate I Active Volunteering (CHC14015) course focuses on the core skills necessary to volunteer as part of a volunteering organisation. This course is designed for students to make positive community links whilst at school that they can continue to engage with post school. There are no entry requirements for this qualification.
This course runs over 2 years (however it can run over a 3 year period if required) and the 5 units of competency that make up this course are clustered across 5 work folios that students are required to complete:
- Introduction to volunteering environments
- Safety in a volunteering environment
- The importance of diversity in volunteering
- Being a volunteer
- Practical Volunteering
Within these folios students are required to participate in a variety of theory and practical activities to gain competency in each unit including oral questioning, role plays, worksheets, observations and third party reports.
Students are required to participate in at least 20 hours of volunteering across the course, schools in many cases have students participate in some internal volunteering programs at school to prepare students before going to external volunteering experiences.
The volunteering organisations and activities accessed as part of this program are specific to each site and include but are not limited to:
- thrift shops
- nursing home visits
- meals on wheels
Units of competency
- FSKOCM001—Participate in highly familiar spoken exchanges
- FSKRDG001—Recognise extremely short and simple workplace signs and symbols
- CHCDIV001—Work with diverse people
- CHCVOL001—Be an effective volunteer
- HLTWHS001—Participate in workplace health and safety
RTO No. : 41021