您将在该计划中学习的核心技能包括采取基于优势，道德，解决问题的方法，以促进社会正义和社会福祉。您将发展强大的人际，团体和社区能力建设技能，使您能够为个人，团体，家庭和社区提供支持。从社会工作的角度，您将了解各种人群的需求和优势，以及满足这些需求的障碍。您将学习基于反压迫性社会工作方法的理论，其中涉及授权和基于系统的方法。您将扩展并加深对造成和解决社会不平等的多种因素的理解。在该计划的第二年中，您将经历大约500个小时的代理机构现场部署，这为在基于社区的组织中应用课堂学习提供了机会。
The Social Service Worker program will provide you with the knowledge and skills you’ll need to support and empower individuals, families, groups and communities Become a part of a profession that creates social justice and change. Learn how to incite real change with diverse individuals and families by building collaborative, culturally safe and strengths-based relationships. Gain an understanding of social problems such as family violence, addictions, mental health and poverty. You will learn tools to create compassionate solutions from an anti-oppressive and trauma-informed practice approach. This two-year program is about jump-starting your career as a Social Service Worker with the skills and knowledge to make an impact. Gain real-world experience with over 400 hours of field placements, allowing you to apply classroom learning in a community-based environment. As a graduate of the Sault College Social Service Worker program, youll meet the requirements for registration to become a regulated professional Social Service Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers & Social Service Workers (OCSWSSW)