Admission Requirements

College Eligibility

• Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent; OR
• Academic and Career Entrance (ACE) Certificate; OR
• General Educational Development (GED); OR
• Mature Student status (19 years of age or older and without a high school diploma at the start of the program).

Call the Admissions Office at 1 (800) 267-2577 for more details. Academic prerequisites for this program may be obtained free of charge through Academic Upgrading.

Application Process
Program intake – Apply to this program by visiting our Registration page. If you are entering into this program as a mature student please attach your resume when submitting your registration information online.

Courses

Semester 1
Basic Study Skills
Organizational Design
Building Supervisory Relationships
Human Resources Management
Finance Management
The Helping Process

Semester 2
Introduction to Professional Counselling
Stages and Skills of Counselling
Assessing Client Needs
Defining Strategies and Selecting Interventions
Termination and Follow-Up
Research Skills Development

Semester 3
Introduction to Social Services
Policy and Regulations
Service Models and Delivery Mechanisms
Canadians Living In Poverty
Family Dynamics
Special Needs Populations
Social Welfare of Aboriginal Canadians
Cross-Cultural Skills

Every attempt is made to ensure the accuracy of information provided on our website. The College reserves the right to modify any course, program, curriculum, fee, timetable, or campus location at any time.

Course Descriptions

Semester 1
Basic Study Skills
This course will enable students to assess their current study skills and plan for improvement. Students will practice time-management techniques for successful studying. Students will learn to develop powerful reading skills and practice memory techniques to enhance ability to learn and improve test performance. This course will also help students to develop specific study skills for mathematics and related subjects and implement an action plan to improve them.

Organizational Design
This coursee examines organizational design both in terms of structure and in terms of process. Students learn that there are important choices to be made in how an organization is structured. The ways in which departments are organized have an impact on the human service organization as a workplace and as a deliverer of services to the community. The impact of structure is matched by the importance of process, with coordination and communication procedures serving as key aspects of design. As students gain knowledge of organizational design, they become prepared to apply this understanding in practice.

Building Supervisory Relationships
This course describes the opportunities and challenges implicit in the supervisory relationship, focusing on both administrative and clinical supervision. Emphasis is placed on the supervisor’s responsibility to provide encouragement, build motivation, increase the mutuality of individual and organizational goals, and enhance the supervisee’s level of confidence. After completing this course, students will comprehend the key role of supervision in the over-all management of an organization. They will also realize that the supervisory role is carried out not just by professional human service managers but also by service providers who view themselves as helping professionals.

Human Resources Management
Even the best-designed program will fall short if it lacks workers who are drawn from a diverse population and who are carefully selected, well-oriented, and offered continuing opportunities for training. This course enables students to recognize the importance of designing jobs and appraisal systems that help the organization meet its goals.  The course covers all the key functions in this diverse field, including employment law, labour relations, training and development, pension and benefit plans, occupational health and safety, compensation, recruitment and selection.

Finance Management
Thiscourse emphasizes the idea that budgeting and financial reporting are central factors in successful management. Students learn that the budgeting process, far from being a separate function understandable only by accountants, is an integral part of any manager’s responsibilities. The budget, of course, is at its core simply a way to bring goals from ideas into reality and financial reporting is a way to make the information accessible to all stakeholders.
With these ideas in mind, students will begin to see themselves as people who capable of creating program budgets.

The Helping Process
Students will examine the stages of the helping process and the ethical and legal obligations that guide the social service work profession. This course provides opportunities to explore critical self-reflective practice to prepare for the social service work field. Students are introduced to the concept of helping as a planned, purposeful process and explores the core helping qualities, values and skills associated with developing and maintaining ethical and effective helping relationships.

Semester 2
Introduction to Professional Counselling
In this course, we introduce a number of concepts and conditions that are fundamental to the counseling process. In so doing, we provide a structure for the remainder of the book. Counseling must be viewed within a context. The factors that contribute to that context include philosophy, current theoretical premises, and culture— in other words, the social milieu. That milieu changes as a society changes. And, of course, it changes when one moves from one society or culture to another. In addition, we address helper qualities that are universal, crossing cultures and time. Our ultimate objective is to help you, the student, begin to identify yourself within these parameters and to do some introspection regarding how your personal qualities match those of the professional counselor.

Stages and Skills of Counselling
The overall objective of this course is to present the structure of the counseling process and how that structure helps you determine what the counselor should be doing. The beginning point of counseling is a time when you and your client must decide, both independently and mutually, whether this particular pairing of persons and personalities offers the potential for growth and change. Beyond that decision, you must reach agreement on what the problem is; how counseling might assist in changing problematic circumstances; what counseling activities would help produce that change; and, finally, when the helping effort should conclude. This course examines this process from the client’s perspective, which will be different from your own.

The second part of this course examines the first of the five stages in the counseling process: establishing rapport and a positive therapeutic relationship. Counselor qualities and behaviors and cliequalities and input that are associated with therapeutic relationships are discussed. The increased likelihood that counseling will be a multicultural experience is recognized as an important factor in forming the relationship. This course addresses relationship issues that will likely be part of that multicultural counseling experience, including the counselor’s responsibility for the client’s cultural identity and sensitivity as well as his or her own.

Assessing Client Needs
Students will examine the process by which the counselor and client can work collaboratively to define what that desirable outcome might or will be. Students will also examine the first of the five stages in the counseling process: establishing rapport and a positive therapeutic relationship. Counselor qualities and behaviors and clienqualities and input that are associated with therapeutic relationships are discussed. The increased likelihood that counseling will be a multicultural experience is recognized as an important factor in forming the relationship. This course addresses relationship issues that will likely be part of that multicultural counseling experience, including the counselor’s responsibility for the client’s cultural identity and sensitivity as well as his or her own.

Defining Strategies and Selecting Interventions
In this course, we examine the process by which counselors can assess the client’s presenting problems. That process involves the collection of information relevant to problem definition, conceptualization of that information into a cogent picture of the client in his or her world, and consideration of client resources. Cultural factors that affect client perceptions of their world and counselor perceptions of client problems are introduced. Clinical assessment in counseling may occur at an in- take interview prior to assignment to a counselor. Or it may occur during the assigned counselor’s sessions with the client. When it occurs prior to counselor assignment, it typically includes paper- and- pencil assessment instruments in addition to information gathering in the interview( s).

There are two approaches to clinical assessment: the psych diagnostic method and the psychometric method. In this course, we shall examine the psych diagnostic approach, which has as its purpose the evaluation of client problems and contextual conditions in order to determine what type of counseling is needed, what types of interventions should be used, and how counseling is likely to progress.

Termination and Follow-Up
Termination, the fifth and final stage of counseling, is the transition from assisted functioning to counseling- free functioning by the client. In this course, we discuss the dynamics that affect this transition, the counselor’s role and responsibilities in seeing that this transition occurs, and the occasional necessity to make client referrals to other mental health professionals. It is important to keep in mind through each of the counseling stages that the ultimate goals of any counseling relationship are success and termination. How this is accomplished is the focus of this course.

Research Skills Development
This course introduces students to several different tools so that they can become a stronger researcher and can create proposals, reports, or simply find good information and review it. Students will start by learning basic research skills techniques like reading, memory recall, note-taking, and planning. Participants also learn about different kinds of outlines, and how to move to writing, editing, and polishing the final work while sharing how to use different sources such as libraries, journals, and the Internet.

Semester 3
Introduction to Social Services
This course introduces students to the purpose, value base, principles, and methods of generalist social work practice. Students will have the opportunity to explore their own personal values and life experiences in the context of social work and the broader society.

Policy and Regulations
This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the role of the law in social work, and to equip them with sufficient knowledge of the law to assist them in their roles as advocates or case managers. Students will learn to recognize when someone’s legal rights or their rights to dignity and equality have been violated and how to challenge these violations effectively.

Service Models and Delivery Mechanisms
This course will introduce the concept of social agency and the main characteristics of social agencies and describe community-based residential and non-residential organizations, and the community system of care. Students will explore the internal structures and functions of social agencies in terms of strategic and operational frameworks and examine the primary features of organic organizational structures. Students will review the main characteristics of the public, commercial, and voluntary sectors in a social welfare context and examine the alternative service delivery models and implications. This course will describe the expanded service delivery role of the voluntary sector.

Canadians Living In Poverty
This course will introduce students to the concept of poverty and explore definitions and measurements of poverty, and identify at-risk groups. Students will discuss the effects of poverty and examine the programmatic and systemic approaches to poverty. Students will examine a social work approach to working with low-income and marginalized groups.

Family Dynamics
The dynamics of healthy families and those that are struggling, family scripts and family legacies will be explored in this course. The impact of power relationships and how these contribute to family violence will also be outlined. How families are structured, boundary and attachment issues, as well as cultural issues and traditions will also be examined. How marital relationships can contribute to or detract from children’s functioning will also be explored.

Special Needs Populations
The dynamics of healthy families and those that are struggling, family scripts and family legacies will be explored in this course. The impact of power relationships and how these contribute to family violence will also be outlined. How families are structured, boundary and attachment issues, as well as cultural issues and traditions will also be examined. How marital relationships can contribute to or detract from children’s functioning will also be explored.

Social Welfare of Aboriginal Canadians
This course introduces students to concepts and social issues related to Aboriginal peoples. Students will explore the historical roots of Canada’s Indian Act and discuss describe attempts to bridge the divide between government and Indigenous peoples. This course examines Aboriginal approaches to helping, healing, and wellness and identifies issues and achievements of selected Aboriginal groups. Students will review topics and programs related to Aboriginal families and youth and explore the role of social work in the lives of Aboriginal peoples.

Cross-Cultural Skills
This course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to appreciate and understand the knowledge, attitudes and basic skills that are necessary in the development and delivery of effective social services to a diverse urban population. Students learn about how culture influences their own personal values and beliefs, as well as that of their clients, and how similarities and differences in values and beliefs can lead to conflict. To promote effective interventions that promote advocacy and client empowerment, students examine both the multicultural, as well as the anti-oppression frameworks to service delivery and intervention.

Every attempt is made to ensure the accuracy of information provided on our website. The College reserves the right to modify any course, program, curriculum, fee, timetable, or campus location at any time.

Fees & Expenses

Fees Apply for this Academic Year.

• Registration: $100.00
• Textbooks: $1025.00
• Shipping: $61.00
• Tuition: $4,414.00

Total Tuition & Fees: $5,600.00