With Northern’s two-year Social Service Worker diploma, you’ll graduate ready to help individuals, families, and communities as they cope with — and work through some of life’s most stressful events.Focused on collaboration and teamwork, the evidence-based curriculum reveals the complex influences that affect human development and behaviour. It also provides you with the tools you’ll need to make a difference.You’ll master conflict management, develop strategies and skills to intervene in a crisis, and through the development of holistic and culturally-sensitive healing plans that will help chart a new course for those in your care.Theory will be put into practice through a series of clinical labs and a 15-week placement with a social services agency. It all adds up to a rewarding journey of self-awareness and professional growth which starts here at Northern College.The SSW program provides a pathway option to our Addiction and Mental Health Worker program. Applicants who meet a qualifying GPA have the option to complete the Addiction and Mental Health Worker program in one year.