What will I learn?

By successfully completing this course, you can expect to have learnt:

• The skills and knowledge required to effectively work within the context of Maori communities
  
• To operate safely and ethically as a youthworker in your community
  
• To serve, build relationships and share your faith with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
  
• To contribute to the learning and development of youth, and respond appropriately to a young person in crisis.
  
• To creatively facilitate groups and develop others in their faith
  
• To develop structures for support and self care in Christian ministry

 You can expect to also have:

• Explored your own spiritual journey, your giftings and motivations
  
• Developed networks in your community, assessed and developed responses to the needs of young people within it.
  
• Improved you knowledge of the Bible and the Christian tradition that you are part of
  
• Improved your awareness of Marae protocol, Maori language, history of Maori spirituality and faith and considered the implications of the Treaty or Waitangi to your own practice.
  
• Developed supportive mentoring relationships with some young people in your identified community.

The Tipu Ake Certificate course operates as a partnership between Te Ora Hou Aotearoa, Praxis and an agency (church or community organisation) which provides supervised practical experience. We believe that learning is most effective when it takes place along side the experience of developing your own project with youth in conjunction with your church or a community organisation. We encourage each student to continue with their project after the course finishes.