Certificate in Youth Work (CYW)
Designed for youth aged 15+, this year-long training combines biblical justice, facilitation skills, and community organizing. Includes retreats, fieldwork, and a culminating youth camp.
The CYW program is a 10-month activity-based training program for youth, held in six-hour sessions every Saturday at the Lilok office. It uses a mix of indoor and outdoor activities built on the principles of adult learning.
The program’s objective is to give participants a space to develop into youth workers with a wholistic faith, that are able to organize youth groups in the community and facilitate their own learning sessions.
Below are some of the tracks we offer for the program. A participant can either choose to join a track, or complete the entire program.
Wholistic Faith Track
Urban Poor Youth in Context
Radical Discipleship
Wholism
Mission, Theology, and Praxis
God of the Poor in the Old and New Testaments
This track aims to develop a more wholistic outlook on faith and ministry in the participants. It includes the modules of:
Wholism
Aims to analyze approaches to ministry and transformation and introduce wholism as an alternative approach.
Wholism
Learn more
Radical Discipleship
Aims to introduce an alternative way of viewing discipleship: from building walls to digging wells.
Radical Discipleship
Learn more
Urban Poor Youth in Context
Aims to give a critical analysis of poverty in the city, from the lens of the participants as urban poor youth.
Urban Poor Youth in Context
Learn more
God of the Poor in the Old and New Testaments
Aims to analyze selected texts from the Old and New Testaments that discuss the issues of oppression, poverty, justice, and peace, and how God acts upon them. This also aims to apply these learnings to the Philippine setting.
God of the Poor in the Old and New Testaments
Learn more
Mission, Theology, and Praxis
Aims to give the participants opportunities to observe how youth-focused organizations live out their missions and visions in the communities around them through half-day study visits. For those who wish to take the Community Organizing track, it also aims to help the participants develop their own visions and missions.
Mission, Theology, and Praxis
Learn more
To complete the experience, the participant is required to either volunteer or undergo exposures for 60 hours in a youth organization. This requirement may also be met by volunteering to help with Lilok’s advocacies or joining response teams for relief efforts.
Organizing Skills Track
Curriculum Development
Community Research
Models of Organizing
Gender Sensitivity Training
Filipino Youth Culture
This track aims to enhance the youth organizing skills of the participants, with the end goal of organizing a youth group in their church or community. The participants will take up:
Models of Organizing and Emergent Practices in Youth Work
Aims to introduce the process of community organizing and different models of organizing through videos, dialogue with youth organizers, and study visits to active youth organizations.
Models of Organizing and Emergent Practices in Youth Work
Learn more
Participatory Community Research
Aims to help the participants perform research in their community for their community, to be used as a basis for their Youth Initiated Project.
Participatory Community Research
Learn more
Curriculum Development from Below
Aims to guide the participants in formulating a progressive curriculum or plan by and for the youth in their community.
Curriculum Development from Below
Learn more
Filipino Youth Culture
Aims to critically analyze youth culture through various perspectives, and encourage the youth to form alternative and appropriate ways to respond to the youth in their community.
Filipino Youth Culture
Learn more
Gender Sensitivity Training
Aims to develop in the participants a greater sensitivity to unequal gender relations, perspectives and opportunities in the dominant Philippine culture and structures, and formulate gender-sensitive responses to issues in the community. Includes a discussion of gender issues in the Bible.
Gender Sensitivity Training
Learn more
In order to complete the experience, the participant is required to organize a youth group in their community with the purpose of implementing a project for and by the youth (called a Youth Initiated Project). This will be evaluated by a panel of evaluators sourced from Lilok’s community partners.
Youth Camp and Training Facilitation Track
Facilitation Skills
Creative Youth Games
Running a Creative Youth Camp
This track aims to enhance the youth organizing skills of the participants, with the end goal of organizing a youth group in their church or community. The participants will take up:
Running a Creative Youth Camp
Aims to orient the youth in the process of organizing a youth camp, with their past camp experiences as the primary resource.
Running a Creative Youth Camp
Learn more
Creative Youth Games
Aims to develop creative games that serve not only as icebreakers and energizers, but as learning sessions in themselves.
Creative Youth Games
Learn more
Facilitation Skills Training
Aims to develop learning session facilitation skills anchored in Adult Learning Principles; integrate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles in crafting a learning session; and practice such skills in actual facilitation sessions.
Facilitation Skills
Learn more
In order to complete the experience, the participant must organize a youth camp with his or her fellow participants, with a theme of their choice. This camp will be funded by Lilok.
Community and Individual Well-being Track
Suicide Awareness
Peer Counseling Skills
Building Self-Esteem
Bibliodrama Retreat
HIV Awareness
This track aims to cultivate wholistic well-being in the communities of the participants. Included in this track are the following modules:
Building Self-Esteem
Aims to develop in the participants a positive sense of self-worth based on their own strengths and the Word of God. Includes written and participatory assessments.
Building Self-Esteem
Learn more
Peer Counseling Skills
Aims to develop the participants into effective listeners for their fellow youth who are in distress.
Peer Counseling Skills
Learn more
Suicide Awareness Workshop
Aims to integrate positive self-worth and peer counseling skills and direct it towards suicide intervention through compassionate journeying.
Suicide Awareness Workshop
Learn more
HIV Awareness
Aims to orient the participants on the reality of HIV in the Philippines, remove the stigma associated with Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), and offer tips on how to avoid infections and get treated. Includes a free HIV test.
HIV Awareness
Learn more
Bibliodrama Retreat
An overnight retreat where the participants experience new ways to interact and reflect on the Biblical text.
Bibliodrama Retreat
Learn more
Open Modules
Besides the modules in these tracks, Lilok CYW offers modules tailored to a particular training batch’s needs, decided during the course orientation or upon request. Here’s a sample of some of the open modules we offer.
Basic Photography
Urban Gardening
First Aid
Combating Online Sexual Exploitation of Children
Disaster Risk Reduction
Livelihood Skills
Likhabi
@Lilok team: Please provide us a description of what Likhabi is about
Suicide Prevention Workshop
A workshop that raises awareness, promotes a culture of care, and equips participants with skills to support individuals at risk of suicide.
Listening Skills Workshop
A practical training that develops active listening skills and strengthens peer suppoart among young people.
Mental Health Awareness Workshop
An interactive workshop that promotes mental health awareness through culturally relevant Filipino perspectives, especially among urban poor youth.
What's the schedule?
The schedule for Training Year 2019-2020 can be seen at this link.
CYW is a flexible program, and as such this schedule may change.
How do I join?
If you’re at least 15 years old or know someone who is that would be interested in the program, one only has to head for the Lilok office, undergo a short interview, fill up an application form, and pay a small fee for enrollment.
The Certificate in Youth Work Program is an intensive training program, and yet affordable for urban poor participants who wish to become youth organizers in their communities.
Certificate in Youth Work (CYW)
Designed for youth aged 15+, this year-long training combines biblical justice, facilitation skills, and community organizing. Includes retreats, fieldwork, and a culminating youth camp.
How do I join?
If you’re at least 15 years old or know someone who is that would be interested in the program, one only has to head for the Lilok office, undergo a short interview, fill up an application form, and pay a small fee for enrollment.
The Certificate in Youth Work Program is an intensive training program, and yet affordable for urban poor participants who wish to become youth organizers in their communities. The fees for attending the entire program are as follows:
Payment terms are flexible, and can be paid upfront, on an installment, or at the end of the training. The fees will be calculated based on how many activities the participant attended.
Category
Rate
Notes
Accommodation
500;
400
Complete beddings;
Own blanket and pillow case
Food
450
150 per meal
Snacks
100
50 per snack
Total
1050;
950
Overnight stay (complete beddings);
(own blanket and pillow case)
Type of Fee | Price (₱) | Inclusions |
|---|---|---|
Enrollment | 400 | One-time fee |
Module | 3920 | 28 Saturdays |
Retreat | 800 | Orientation and Bibliodrama |
Camp | 800 | Bible Camp and CYW Camp |
Graduation | 350 | One-time fee |
Total | 6270 |
Certificate in Youth Work (CYW)
Designed for youth aged 15+, this year-long training combines biblical justice, facilitation skills, and community organizing. Includes retreats, fieldwork, and a culminating youth camp.
The CYW program is a 10-month activity-based training program for youth, held in six-hour sessions every Saturday at the Lilok office. It uses a mix of indoor and outdoor activities built on the principles of adult learning.
The program’s objective is to give participants a space to develop into youth workers with a wholistic faith, that are able to organize youth groups in the community and facilitate their own learning sessions.
Below are some of the tracks we offer for the program. A participant can either choose to join a track, or complete the entire program.
Certificate in Youth Work (CYW)
Designed for youth aged 15+, this year-long training combines biblical justice, facilitation skills, and community organizing. Includes retreats, fieldwork, and a culminating youth camp.
Wholistic Faith Track
Wholism
Radical Discipleship
Urban Poor Youth in Context
God of the Poor in the Old and New Testaments
Mission, Theology, and Praxis
This track aims to develop a more wholistic outlook on faith and ministry in the participants. It includes the modules of:
Wholism
Aims to analyze approaches to ministry and transformation and introduce wholism as an alternative approach.
Wholism
Learn more
Radical Discipleship
Aims to introduce an alternative way of viewing discipleship: from building walls to digging wells.
Radical Discipleship
Learn more
To complete the experience, the participant is required to either volunteer or undergo exposures for 60 hours in a youth organization. This requirement may also be met by volunteering to help with Lilok’s advocacies or joining response teams for relief efforts.
Urban Poor Youth in Context
Aims to give a critical analysis of poverty in the city, from the lens of the participants as urban poor youth.
Urban Poor Youth in Context
Learn more
God of the Poor in the Old and New Testaments
Aims to analyze selected texts from the Old and New Testaments that discuss the issues of oppression, poverty, justice, and peace, and how God acts upon them. This also aims to apply these learnings to the Philippine setting.
God of the Poor in the Old and New Testaments
Learn more
Mission, Theology, and Praxis
Aims to give the participants opportunities to observe how youth-focused organizations live out their missions and visions in the communities around them through half-day study visits. For those who wish to take the Community Organizing track, it also aims to help the participants develop their own visions and missions.
Mission, Theology, and Praxis
Learn more
Organizing Skills Track
Models of Organizing
Community Research
Curriculum Development
Filipino Youth Culture
Gender Sensitivity Training
This track aims to enhance the youth organizing skills of the participants, with the end goal of organizing a youth group in their church or community. The participants will take up:
Models of Organizing and Emergent Practices in Youth Work
Aims to introduce the process of community organizing and different models of organizing through videos, dialogue with youth organizers, and study visits to active youth organizations.
Models of Organizing and Emergent Practices in Youth Work
Learn more
Participatory Community Research
Aims to help the participants perform research in their community for their community, to be used as a basis for their Youth Initiated Project.
Participatory Community Research
Learn more
In order to complete the experience, the participant is required to organize a youth group in their community with the purpose of implementing a project for and by the youth (called a Youth Initiated Project). This will be evaluated by a panel of evaluators sourced from Lilok’s community partners.
Filipino Youth Culture
Aims to critically analyze youth culture through various perspectives, and encourage the youth to form alternative and appropriate ways to respond to the youth in their community.
Filipino Youth Culture
Learn more
Curriculum Development from Below
Aims to guide the participants in formulating a progressive curriculum or plan by and for the youth in their community.
Curriculum Development from Below
Learn more
Gender Sensitivity Training
Aims to develop in the participants a greater sensitivity to unequal gender relations, perspectives and opportunities in the dominant Philippine culture and structures, and formulate gender-sensitive responses to issues in the community. Includes a discussion of gender issues in the Bible.
Gender Sensitivity Training
Learn more
Youth Camp and Training Facilitation Track
Running a Creative Youth Camp
Creative Youth Games
Facilitation Skills
This track aims to cultivate wholistic well-being in the communities of the participants. Included in this track are the following modules:
In order to complete the experience, the participant must organize a youth camp with his or her fellow participants, with a theme of their choice. This camp will be funded by Lilok.
Creative Youth Games
Aims to develop creative games that serve not only as icebreakers and energizers, but as learning sessions in themselves.
Creative Youth Games
Learn more
Running a Creative Youth Camp
Aims to orient the youth in the process of organizing a youth camp, with their past camp experiences as the primary resource.
Running a Creative Youth Camp
Learn more
Facilitation Skills Training
Aims to develop learning session facilitation skills anchored in Adult Learning Principles; integrate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles in crafting a learning session; and practice such skills in actual facilitation sessions.
Facilitation Skills Training
Learn more
How do I join?
Fees are calculated based on the number of activities you attend. We offer flexible payment terms, including upfront, installment, or post-training options.
Connect with a Program Coordinator to receive the latest pricing.
If you’re at least 15 years old or know someone who is that would be interested in the program, one only has to head for the Lilok office, undergo a short interview, fill up an application form, and pay a small fee for enrollment.
The Certificate in Youth Work Program is an intensive training program, and yet affordable for urban poor participants who wish to become youth organizers in their communities.
Community and Individual Well-being Track
Building Self-Esteem
Peer Counseling Skills
Bibliodrama Retreat
Suicide Awareness
HIV Awareness
This track aims to cultivate wholistic well-being in the communities of the participants. Included in this track are the following modules:
Peer Counseling Skills
Aims to integrate positive self-worth and peer counseling skills and direct it towards suicide intervention through compassionate journeying.
Peer Counseling Skills
Learn more
Building Self-Esteem
Aims to develop in the participants a positive sense of self-worth based on their own strengths and the Word of God. Includes written and participatory assessments.
Building Self-Esteem
Learn more
Bibliodrama Retreat
An overnight retreat where the participants experience new ways to interact and reflect on the Biblical text.
Bibliodrama Retreat
Learn more
HIV Awareness
Aims to orient the participants on the reality of HIV in the Philippines, remove the stigma associated with Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), and offer tips on how to avoid infections and get treated. Includes a free HIV test.
HIV Awareness
Learn more
Suicide Awareness Workshop
Aims to integrate positive self-worth and peer counseling skills and direct it towards suicide intervention through compassionate journeying.
Suicide Awareness Workshop
Learn more
Open Modules
Besides the modules in these tracks, Lilok CYW offers modules tailored to a particular training batch’s needs, decided during the course orientation or upon request. Here’s a sample of some of the open modules we offer.
First Aid
Urban Gardening
Basic Photography
Livelihood Skills
Disaster Risk Reduction
Combating Online Sexual Exploitation of Children
Likhabi
@Lilok team: Please provide us a description of what Likhabi is about
Mental Health Awareness Workshop
An interactive workshop that promotes mental health awareness through culturally relevant Filipino perspectives, especially among urban poor youth.
Listening Skills Workshop
A practical training that develops active listening skills and strengthens peer support among young people.
Suicide Prevention Workshop
A workshop that raises awareness, promotes a culture of care, and equips participants with skills to support individuals at risk of suicide.
What’s the schedule?
The schedule for Training Year 2019-2020 can be seen at this link.
CYW is a flexible program, and as such this schedule may change.
How do I join?
If you’re at least 15 years old or know someone who is that would be interested in the program, one only has to head for the Lilok office, undergo a short interview, fill up an application form, and pay a small fee for enrollment.
The Certificate in Youth Work Program is an intensive training program, and yet affordable for urban poor participants who wish to become youth organizers in their communities. The fees for attending the entire program are as follows:
Type of Fee | Price (₱) | Inclusions |
|---|---|---|
Enrollment | 400 | One-time fee |
Module | 3920 | 28 Saturdays |
Retreat | 800 | Orientation and Bibliodrama |
Camp | 800 | Bible Camp and CYW Camp |
Graduation | 350 | One-time fee |
Total | 6270 |
Payment terms are flexible, and can be paid upfront, on an installment, or at the end of the training. The fees will be calculated based on how many activities the participant attended.
Certificate in Youth Work (CYW)
Designed for youth aged 15+, this year-long training combines biblical justice, facilitation skills, and community organizing. Includes retreats, fieldwork, and a culminating youth camp.
The CYW program is a 10-month activity-based training program for youth, held in six-hour sessions every Saturday at the Lilok office. It uses a mix of indoor and outdoor activities built on the principles of adult learning.
The program’s objective is to give participants a space to develop into youth workers with a wholistic faith, that are able to organize youth groups in the community and facilitate their own learning sessions.
Below are some of the tracks we offer for the program. A participant can either choose to join a track, or complete the entire program.
Wholistic Faith Track
Wholism
Radical Discipleship
Urban Poor Youth in Context
God of the Poor in the Old
and New Testaments
Mission, Theology, and Praxis
This track aims to develop a more wholistic outlook on faith and ministry in the participants. It includes the modules of:
Wholism
Aims to analyze approaches to ministry and transformation and introduce wholism as an alternative approach.
Wholism
Learn more
To complete the experience, the participant is required to either volunteer or undergo exposures for 60 hours in a youth organization. This requirement may also be met by volunteering to help with Lilok’s advocacies or joining response teams for relief efforts.
Radical Discipleship
Aims to introduce an alternative way of viewing discipleship: from building walls to digging wells.
Radical Discipleship
Learn more
Urban Poor Youth in Context
Aims to give a critical analysis of poverty in the city, from the lens of the participants as urban poor youth.
Urban Poor Youth in Context
Learn more
God of the Poor in the Old and New Testaments
Aims to analyze selected texts from the Old and New Testaments that discuss the issues of oppression, poverty, justice, and peace, and how God acts upon them. This also aims to apply these learnings to the Philippine setting.
God of the Poor in the Old and New Testaments
Learn more
Mission, Theology, and Praxis
Aims to give the participants opportunities to observe how youth-focused organizations live out their missions and visions in the communities around them through half-day study visits. For those who wish to take the Community Organizing track, it also aims to help the participants develop their own visions and missions.
Mission, Theology, and Praxis
Learn more
Organizing Skills Track
Models of Organizing
Community Research
Curriculum Development
Filipino Youth Culture
Gender Sensitivity Training
This track aims to enhance the youth organizing skills of the participants, with the end goal of organizing a youth group in their church or community. The participants will take up:
Models of Organizing and Emergent Practices in Youth Work
Aims to introduce the process of community organizing and different models of organizing through videos, dialogue with youth organizers, and study visits to active youth organizations.
Models of Organizing and Emergent Practices in Youth Work
Learn more
Participatory Community Research
Aims to help the participants perform research in their community for their community, to be used as a basis for their Youth Initiated Project.
Participatory Community Research
Learn more
Curriculum Development from Below
Aims to guide the participants in formulating a progressive curriculum or plan by and for the youth in their community.
Curriculum Development from Below
Learn more
Filipino Youth Culture
Aims to critically analyze youth culture through various perspectives, and encourage the youth to form alternative and appropriate ways to respond to the youth in their community.
Filipino Youth Culture
Learn more
Gender Sensitivity Training
Aims to develop in the participants a greater sensitivity to unequal gender relations, perspectives and opportunities in the dominant Philippine culture and structures, and formulate gender-sensitive responses to issues in the community. Includes a discussion of gender issues in the Bible.
Gender Sensitivity Training
Learn more
In order to complete the experience, the participant is required to organize a youth group in their community with the purpose of implementing a project for and by the youth (called a Youth Initiated Project). This will be evaluated by a panel of evaluators sourced from Lilok’s community partners.
Youth Camp and Training
Facilitation Track
Running a Creative Youth Camp
Creative Youth Games
Facilitation Skills
This track aims to cultivate wholistic well-being in the communities of the participants. Included in this track are the following modules:
Running a Creative Youth Camp
Aims to orient the youth in the process of organizing a youth camp, with their past camp experiences as the primary resource.
Running a Creative Youth Camp
Learn more
Creative Youth Games
Aims to develop creative games that serve not only as icebreakers and energizers, but as learning sessions in themselves.
Creative Youth Games
Learn more
Facilitation Skills Training
Aims to develop learning session facilitation skills anchored in Adult Learning Principles; integrate visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning styles in crafting a learning session; and practice such skills in actual facilitation sessions.
Facilitation Skills Training
Learn more
In order to complete the experience, the participant must organize a youth camp with his or her fellow participants, with a theme of their choice. This camp will be funded by Lilok.
Community and Individual Well-being Track
Building Self-Esteem
Peer Counseling Skills
Suicide Awareness
HIV Awareness
Bibliodrama Retreat
This track aims to cultivate wholistic well-being in the communities of the participants. Included in this track are the following modules:
Building Self-Esteem
Aims to develop in the participants a positive sense of self-worth based on their own strengths and the Word of God. Includes written and participatory assessments.
Building Self-Esteem
Learn more
Peer Counseling Skills
Aims to develop the participants into effective listeners for their fellow youth who are in distress.
Peer Counseling Skills
Learn more
Suicide Awareness Workshop
Aims to integrate positive self-worth and peer counseling skills and direct it towards suicide intervention through compassionate journeying.
Suicide Awareness Workshop
Learn more
HIV Awareness
Aims to orient the participants on the reality of HIV in the Philippines, remove the stigma associated with Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI), and offer tips on how to avoid infections and get treated. Includes a free HIV test.
HIV Awareness
Learn more
Bibliodrama Retreat
An overnight retreat where the participants experience new ways to interact and reflect on the Biblical text.
Bibliodrama Retreat
Learn more
Open modules
Besides the modules in these tracks, Lilok CYW offers modules tailored to a particular training batch’s needs, decided during the course orientation or upon request. Here’s a sample of some of the open modules we offer.
First Aid
Urban Gardening
Basic Photography
Livelihood Skills
Disaster Risk Reduction
Combating Online Sexual Exploitation of Children
Likhabi
@Lilok team: Please provide us a description of what Likhabi is about
Mental Health Awareness Workshop
An interactive workshop that promotes mental health awareness through culturally relevant Filipino perspectives, especially among urban poor youth.
Listening Skills Workshop
A practical training that develops active listening skills and strengthens peer support among young people.
Suicide Prevention Workshop
A workshop that raises awareness, promotes a culture of care, and equips participants with skills to support individuals at risk of suicide.
What’s the schedule?
The schedule for Training Year 2019-2020 can be seen at this link. CYW is a flexible program, and as such this schedule may change.
Certificate in Youth Work (CYW)
Designed for youth aged 15+, this year-long training combines biblical justice, facilitation skills, and community organizing. Includes retreats, fieldwork, and a culminating youth camp.
How do I join?
If you’re at least 15 years old or know someone who is that would be interested in the program, one only has to head for the Lilok office, undergo a short interview, fill up an application form, and pay a small fee for enrollment.
The Certificate in Youth Work Program is an intensive training program, and yet affordable for urban poor participants who wish to become youth organizers in their communities.
How do I join?
If you’re at least 15 years old or know someone who is that would be interested in the program, one only has to head for the Lilok office, undergo a short interview, fill up an application form, and pay a small fee for enrollment.
The Certificate in Youth Work Program is an intensive training program, and yet affordable for urban poor participants who wish to become youth organizers in their communities. The fees for attending the entire program are as follows:
Type of Fee | Price (₱) | Inclusions |
|---|---|---|
Enrollment | 400 | One-time fee |
Module | 3920 | 28 Saturdays |
Retreat | 800 | Orientation and Bibliodrama |
Camp | 800 | Bible Camp and CYW Camp |
Graduation | 350 | One-time fee |
Total | 6270 |
Payment terms are flexible, and can be paid upfront, on an installment, or at the end of the training. The fees will be calculated based on how many activities the participant attended.