成瘾和心理健康工作者文凭

社区与健康研究学院提供成瘾与心理健康工作者计划。它将帮助您使用基于证据的知识和技能，从不同的文化和社区角度筛查，评估和应对患有心理健康和药物滥用问题的人，从而获得从事心理健康和成瘾服务的教育。<br> < br>在“成瘾和心理健康工作”课程中，您将学习–在各种社区健康和人类服务环境中工作，例如，心理健康和成瘾机构，无家可归者收容所和危机服务中心–与受成瘾和心理健康问题影响的个人，家庭成员和小组。您还将获得知识，提倡公平获得支持和服务，包括健康促进，预防和减少伤害。成瘾和心理健康工作计划致力于与加拿大的土著
The School of Community and Health Studies offers the Addiction and Mental Health Worker program. It will help you acquire the education to work in mental health and addiction services using evidence-based knowledge and skills in screening, assessing, and responding to people with mental health and substance-use issues from diverse cultural and community perspectives.<br> <br>In Addiction and Mental Health Work courses, you'll learn to work in a variety of community health and human services settings such as mental health and addiction agencies, homeless drop-in centres and crisis service centres with individuals, family members and small groups impacted by addiction and mental health issues. You'll also gain the knowledge to advocate for equitable access to supports and services including health promotion, prevention and harm reduction. The Addiction and Mental Health Work program has a commitment to reconciliation with Indigenous communities in Canada. As a result, courses will offer Indigenous perspectives to addiction and mental health work.<br><br>Classroom instruction will be combined with a second-year field placement experience during which you'll spend several days each week working with clients in social service agencies under the supervision of experienced service providers. You'll have the opportunity to work in interprofessional teams to gain direct experience providing support to clients and families through case management, assessment, referral and navigating systems of care.