Social Service Worker

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 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 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 In addition as a regulated profession in Ontario upon having successfully completed this program you will have the necessary skills for employment as a Social Service Worker in Ontario and be eligible for membership with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Services Please see the OCSWSSW website for more information about the profession and eligibility for membership

Duration: 12

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