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.<br><br>View the program outline for the Social Service Worker diploma<br><br>Indigenous Focus<br>The 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. <br>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.