帮助我们最脆弱的人群负有不可思议的责任
Explore current social issues and understand the challenges faced by vulnerable populations so you can learn how to deliver impactful services, such as counselling, mediation and crisis intervention.<br>Courses in your first year focus on understanding human behaviour and issues related to individuals, families and groups. In your second year, you will engage in theoretical and practical studies in counselling, ethical and professional issues, and working with various vulnerable populations.<br>In your upper years, you will work with diverse groups and learn theory and techniques in areas such as family therapy, case management, crisis intervention, and nonprofit agency administration. Build strong clinical skills that exceed the industry standard for undergraduate education. Learn basic communication competencies to more in-depth therapeutic interventions for individual, group and family counselling. You will practise interviewing, counselling, crisis intervention, mediation and conflict resolution. By recording the sessions, you can analyze your techniques to help you learn to communicate and support people more effectively.<br>Graduate with important skills in social serviceshow to listen, how to support someone, understanding boundaries, profes- sionalism, cultural awareness, compassion, global citizenship and self-care. Apply to be registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers as a Social Service Worker in your final semester.