UFV的两年社会服务文凭使您为在人事服务领域的准专业人士做好准备。您在成瘾，儿童福利，社区服务，矫正，家庭和家庭支持服务，移民和难民服务，土著服务，心理健康，住宿护理，学校和社会援助等领域建立了坚实的专业实践基础。两个13至15周的实践活动可让您发展求职技能，并与当地的社会服务机构和社区团体联系。您可以全职或兼职获取社会服务文凭。毕业后，您就可以准备加入工作队伍。完成必修课程的前提条件后，您也可以继续学习并升入UFV社会工作学士学位课程。
The Social Service Worker diploma is a two-year, 62-credit program that prepares students to work in social service agencies and schools. Graduates work in a variety of settings, including corrections, family support, Indigenous services, mental health, residential care, settlement services, substance use, and women’s services.View the program outline for the Social Service Worker diplomaIndigenous FocusThe Social Service Worker diploma – Indigenous focus prepares students to work in culturally safe ways with Indigenous Peoples in social service agencies and schools. Graduates practice from a place of cultural humility and develop an understanding of the impact of colonization on Indigenous communities. Both streams of the Social Service Worker diploma provide students with employment-related skills while earning university-level credits towards a Bachelor of Social Work or other degree. Graduates interested in becoming social workers may seek employment as a social service worker before going on to complete a degree.