Youth Work, Health and Community Development MA/PG Dip

Overview

This programme is currently JNC recognised and is seeking revalidation.

The course offers flexibility with a professional qualification, enabling successful graduates to practice as qualified youth work, health and community development workers in the UK.

Reasons to study Youth Work, Health and Community Development at DMU:

• Professional validation by the National Youth Agency (NYA) and recognition by the Joint Negotiating Committee (JNC); ensuring your course is quality checked and meets a specific standard
• Endorsed by the Endorsement and Quality Standards Board (ESB) for Community Development Learning – the course meets nationally recognised standards, is high quality and provides continuous professional development desirable to employers
• Achieve planned change and enhance your employment opportunities with modules specifically designed for staff in local authorities, the NHS, voluntary, third sector and non-governmental organisations; ensuring your learning is relevant to current practice
• Opportunities to study part-time or full time alongside your work commitments, mainly through distance learning
• Develop your practical and professional skills, putting theory in to practice with dedicated work placement modules
• Develop as an innovative, progressive practitioner, able to engage reflectively with concepts and practices of social justice and equality
• Benefit from inter-professional learning as the course attracts professionals from youth work and a variety of settings across the UK, including: parenting education, children’s centres, sexual health, drug abuse, housing and homelessness, youth offending, mental health, community development and domestic violence
• Our teaching draws on the experiences of our diverse academic team; many of whom are actively engaged in professional practice, research and consultancy
• Benefit from an international reputation for academic excellence in the field and over 55 years’ professional training experience.