社会服务工作者与个人，家庭，团体，组织和社区建立并保持关系，认识并应对个人，团体，组织和社区的不公正和不平等现象，并提供直接服务和/或桥接资源以提高服务质量人们生活在个人，文化和系统层面。社会服务工作者与其他专业人员（例如，儿童和青年工作者，成瘾咨询师，教师，社会工作者，心理学家，精神病医生，护士和医生）一起工作时，会在各种住宅和社区环境中提供这些服务。该课程为期四个学期，在前三个学期提供基于课堂的课程，在最后一个学期提供整体课程。应用学习活动被注入到我们基于课堂的课程中，例如：为了与个人，团体，组织和社
As a Social Service Worker you can be on the front line of positive change. Social Service Workers build and maintain relationships with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities, recognize and respond to individual, group, organizational and community injustices and inequalities, and provide direct services and/or a bridging to resources to improve the quality of peoples lives at the personal, cultural, and system levels. Social Service Workers provide these services in a range of residential and community settings while working with other professionals such as child and youth workers, addiction counsellors, teachers, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, and doctors.<br><br>The program is four semesters in length with classroom-based courses in the first three semesters and a block placement in the final semester. Applied learning activities are infused into our classroom-based courses such as: Practicing interviewing and group facilitation skills for the purposes of engagement, assessment, goal planning and social support with individuals, groups, organizations, and communities, Working in teams to plan on and off-campus events, fundraising campaigns, educational awareness days, and promotion of social change, Conducting research to challenge forms of oppression as well as to design/develop/improve social service programs, and Participating in self-care strategies for personal and professional well-being.<br><br>Building on the above knowledge and skills gained, a full-time placement in the fourth and final semester of the program provides a range of practice opportunities in a work setting (agency and location to be determined in consultation with the student, faculty, and available agency sites).