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Community & Social Services Worker
Graduation Requirements:Students having achieved a minimum 60% or better in each module. Students who achieve 85% and have an honours designation on their diploma. Voluntary placement hours will be designated on diploma. Career Opportunities :Yorkville College graduates will gain the confidence to pursue a multitude of career opportunities. Undergraduates will have the opportunity to visit centers for addiction, vocational counselling organizations, multicultural centres, homes for the care of seniors, those with mental afflictions, refugees, outreach programs, legal services. Our graduates will be trained to assist gender groups, people with AIDS or other health related activities, battered women, assaulted women, at risk youth, homeless, individuals suffering from mental health issues, etc. Historically, employers are very satisfied with the theory and practical skills of the graduates of Yorkville College of Professional Studies. This 31 week Community and Social Services diploma program prepares you to work with people who are experiencing difficult and stressful times in their lives, and who therefore need a social services worker to intervene and a ssist them. Our Community and Social Services worker program is taught by an experienced instructor who addresses your particular strengths and your skills to communicate and to cooperate in group settings. You will be able to focus on that part of the curriculum that suits your preferred career aspirations. You will be asked to develop good verbal and written communication skills and you will practice report writing, a mandatory function in community and social services work. Within the Crisis Intervention section of the program, you will learn to work in an environment where drugs, violence, sex, money and peer pressure are an ever present force that affects both the behavior and perception of life. Yorkville College has a unique module of training in Volunteer Management, a skill highly valued in today's job market. Many of the hostels for youth, families and for women, many of the community shelters, foundations, cultural centres etc. run volunteer programs and need volunteer managers. You will learn how to train and coordinate various types of volunteer initiatives within the community, including fund-raising activities to support those in the community in need. There is a focus upon addressing multicultural alliance building, helping people with mental or physical disabilities, or helping people to help themselves or others. Skills upon Graduating:The program is designed to offer each and every graduate theoretical and practical skills to assist clients to organize and improve their lives and life skills. The graduate will know interviewing skills; counselling and relationship building skills; how to create helping relationship skills; how to pursue community development initiatives. The Graduate will know principals of social justice, diversity, group interaction, leadership skills, harm reduction, restorative justice and cultural competency. The graduate will understand program planning and evaluation, community resource allocation and services, understand and teach job search skills. This program includes learning the skills related to crisis intervention and volunteer management, counselling, and housing for marginalized populations. Program Design and Subject Matter Covered:
Our graduates will find a career in:
What Makes Community and Social Service Worker Program Unique:Traditional courses - psychology, human behavior, anthropology, etc. However, there are cutting edge courses that are reflective of what is going on now such as : A. Housing of marginalized populations - Landlord Tenant Act, tribunals, where to find housing, how to fill in forms, types of housing, rent supplements, rent geared to income, subsidies, legal obligation of landlord and tenant, types of properties, housing counseling etc.; B. Counseling is specific: addictions, mental health, youth, adolescent, different counseling methodologies; C. Volunteer Modules - students can actually run an entire volunteer program inclusive of hiring, screening, job descriptions, evaluations, special events, rewards, scheduling etc; D. Fundraising Module - students write grants and learn how to create budgets, understand about mission statements, philosophy, target populations, demographics, data collection, private funders, foundations, corporation funding, in kind funding and government funding; E. Crisis Intervention and Conflict Resolution is unique in that it revolves around creating models that work specifically for each individual acknowledging personal strengths and limitations, biases surroundings with a minimum of 50 real life scenarios. Communication, effective listening, and cultural competency are stressed in this module. This course is unique in that students visit at least 50 different community organizations. Students learn: how refer clients, experience what it feels like to be a client, ave the opportunity to gain practical experience in battling addictions, crisis, the various (isms), housing, report and grant writing, and volunteerism; Teaching style is participatory. Students work hard and assimilate a great deal of theoretical and practical information. Students often comment about the personal growth they experience as well as educational component. Students learn not only what is traditional but current in the field such as:
25 different texts are utilized throughout the course as well as Internet resources, agency resources, media, and multi-cultural experience provided for in house and outside resources. Placements are available and support: resumes and job searches or provided on case by case basis by the instructor.
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