Social Service Worker Fleming College

About this Program

Level: Ontario College Diploma

Discpline: Social Work

Length: 4 semesters

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Application Fee: $100.00 waived
Tuition Fee: $17,991.12

Sutherland Campus Campus

Starting Deadline Status
Jan, 2025 Nov 1, 2024 open
May, 2025 Mar 1, 2025 open

Program Description

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).

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Study and Work in Canada

Full-time undergraduate and post-graduate international students can work anywhere on or off campus without a work permit. The rules around the number of hours a student will be allowed to work may vary based on the country the student chooses to study in. International students are typically able to work up to 20 hours a week.