- Social Service Workers focus on promoting equality, and addressing disadvantages that people face on the basis of race, disability, gender or age. They use their knowledge of human behaviour and development, communication, interviewing and counseling skills, to work with groups and/or communities to help them become more caring and capable of supporting their communities.
- This program prepares students to work with people who are experiencing stressful events in their lives from an individual, family and community perspective. Students will learn how to intervene in crisis situations and will develop skills needed to assist individual clients, groups, families and communities to better meet their challenges and to enhance their social functioning.
- Clinical practice labs and field placements provide a milieu where students are able to apply theory into practice through interviewing, case assessment and planning. Students must be able to apply skills, such as teamwork and group work outside of class.
- They may also be required to seek feedback from agency professionals for lab work and video assignments. Northern College values lifelong learning in an effort to maintain the current competencies outlined by the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers.
- The College assists learners in developing competent skills, attitudes and an interest in the social service profession egalitarian and supportive relationships with our professors and facilitators facilitate adult learning and development.
Language Proficiency Test - IELTS/TOEFL/PTE
- Communications I – Model B
- Working on Teams and in Groups
- Social Service Worker Practice I
- Intro. To Social Welfare in Canada
- Understand Power, Privilege & Oppression
- Record Keeping and Report Writing
- Human Behaviour in the Social Environment
- General Elective
- Communications II – Model B
- Social Service Worker Practice II
- Social Service Worker Practice II Lab
- Working with Indigenous Peoples
- Community Health and Development
- Social Policy and Legislation in SSW
- Social Problems in a Diverse Society
- General Elective
- General Elective
- Preparation for Placement
- Interprofessional Collaboration
- Working with Diverse Families
- Trauma-Informed Care and Crisis
- Addiction and Mental Health
- Program Evaluation and Proposal Writing
- Interpersonal Violence
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