How to become a refuge worker
Give emotional and psychological support to children and adults in group homes, or residential and correctional facilities.
What does a refuge worker do?
Refuge Workers, also known as special care workers, work with children and adults in a variety of capacities. They may work with high-risk children who live in residential facilities, group homes, or correctional facilities, or they may provide emotional and psychological support to people who live in refuges.
Duties and tasks
Ensuring children are following facility rules and disciplining them and filing disciplinary reports when infractions occur
Ensuring children in group homes are washed and fed
Planning, coordinating, and supervising individual and group activities for children in residential care facilities
Steering refuge residents to welfare services as necessary and needed
Supervising children in residential or group homes
Working with residents of refuges to provide emotional support
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