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Level 1
Course details
College Reading & Writing Skills
COMM1085
Conestoga 101
CON0101
Group Process And Dynamics
SOCS1060
Introduction to Professional Practice
SOCS1390
Decolonizing Social Service Work
SOCS1400
Social Service Systems
SOCS1500
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options
Level 2
Course details
Safety in the Workplace
OHS1320
Techniques Of Interviewing & Assessment
SOCS1036
Field Seminar: Preparing for Professional Practice
SOCS1376
Transformative Practices: Theory to Action
SOCS1410
Community Interventions
SOCS1420
Student must pass 1 Course(s), selected in the Student Portal from available course options
Level 3
Course details
Professional Communication
COMM1360
Field Placement I (Social Service Worker)
FPLT2461
Group Work: Assessment, Intervention And Evaluation
SOCS2060
Supportive Counselling with Families
SOCS2070
Community Interventions: Theory to Action
SOCS2210
Level 4
Course details
Field Placement II (Social Service Worker)
FPLT2470
Violence, Trauma, and Abuse
SOCS2015
Group Work: Community Applications
SOCS2045
Simulation: Trauma, Mental Health, and Addictions
SOCS2220
Please note:
Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs are based on the most recent available data through the Conestoga Campus Store.
Program outcomes
- Develop respectful and collaborative professional and interpersonal relationships that adhere to professional, legal, and ethical standards aligned to social service work.
- Record information accurately and communicate effectively in written, digital, verbal and non-verbal ways, in adherence to privacy and freedom of information legislation, in accordance with professional and workplace standards.
- Integrate a practice framework within a service delivery continuum, addressing the needs of individuals, families and communities at micro, mezzo, macro and global levels, and work with them in achieving their goals.
- Plan and implement accessible and responsive programs and services, recognizing the diverse needs and experiences of individuals, groups, families and communities, and meeting these needs.
- Examine current social policy, relevant legislation, and political, social, historical, and/or economic systems and their impacts for individuals and communities when delivering services to the user/client.
- Develop strategies and approaches that support individual clients, groups, families and communities in building the capacity for self-advocacy, while affirming their dignity and self-worth.
- Work from an anti-oppressive, strengths-based practice, recognizing the capacity for resilience and growth of individuals and communities when responding to the diverse needs of marginalized or vulnerable populations to act as allies and advocates.
- Develop strategies and approaches to implement and maintain holistic self-care as a member of a human service profession.
- Work with individuals, groups, families and their communities to ensure that service provider strategies promote social and economic justice, and challenge patterns of oppression, discrimination and harassment, and sexual violence with clients, coworkers and communities.
- Develop the capacity to work with the indigenous individual, families, groups and communities while respecting their inherent rights to self-determine, and to identify and address systemic barriers that produce ill-effects, developing appropriate responses using approaches such as trauma informed care practice.