社会服务工作者文凭

社会服务工作者与个人，家庭，团体，组织和社区建立并保持关系，认识并应对个人，团体，组织和社区的不公正和不平等现象，并提供直接服务和/或桥接资源以提高服务质量人们生活在个人，文化和系统层面。社会服务工作者与其他专业人员（例如，儿童和青年工作者，成瘾咨询师，教师，社会工作者，心理学家，精神病医生，护士和医生）一起工作时，会在各种住宅和社区环境中提供这些服务。该课程为期四个学期，在前三个学期提供基于课堂的课程，在最后一个学期提供整体课程。应用学习活动被注入到我们基于课堂的课程中，例如：为了与个人，团体，组织和社
As a Social Service Worker you can be on the front line of positive change. Social Service Workers build and maintain relationships with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities; recognize and respond to individual, group, organizational and community injustices and inequalities; and provide direct services andor a bridging to resources to improve the quality of peoples’ lives at the personal, cultural, and system levels. Social Service Workers provide these services in a range of residential and community settings while working with other professionals such as child and youth workers, addiction counsellors, teachers, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, and doctors.<br><br>The program is four semesters in length with classroom-based courses in the first three semesters and a block placement in the final semester. Applied learning activities are infused into our classroom-based courses such as: Practicing interviewing and group facilitation skills for the purposes of engagement, assessment, goal planning and social support with individuals, groups, organizations, and communities; Working in teams to plan on and off-campus events, fundraising campaigns, educational awareness days, and promotion of social change; Conducting research to challenge forms of oppression as well as to designdevelopimprove social service programs; and Participating in self-care strategies for personal and professional well-being.<br><br>Building on the above knowledge and skills gained, a full-time placement in the fourth and final semester of the program provides a range of practice opportunities in a work setting (agency and location to be determined in consultation with the student, faculty, and available agency sites).