社会服务工作者专注于促进平等，并解决人们在种族，残障，性别或年龄方面面临的不利条件。他们利用他们对人类行为和发展，交流，访谈和咨询技巧的知识，与团体和/或社区合作，以帮助他们变得更有爱心，并有能力支持其社区。该计划使学生能够从个人，家庭和社区的角度与生活中遇到压力事件的人们一起工作。学生将学习如何在危机情况下进行干预，并将发展必要的技能，以协助个人客户，团体，家庭和社区更好地应对挑战并增强其社会功能。临床实践实验室和现场实习提供了一个环境，学生可以通过访谈，病例评估和计划将理论应用于实践。学生必须能够在课
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.