Program Description Community Worker (Fast-Track) is a dynamic social justice program grounded in the principles of human rights and anti-oppression that prepares students to work with largely urban-centred and diverse communities across a range of issues (i.e. poverty, housing, food security, immigration and settlement, etc.) in ways that are responsive to their multiple and changing needs.
The three-semester Fast-Track program combines classroom instruction with supervised field placements. Theory, analysis and practice are presented through a variety of innovative instructional tools developed from popular education and learner-centred approaches to teaching and learning.
Highly participatory classes of dialogue, debate, interactive lectures, guest speakers and panels, and group activities provide students with a program of study that is current, exciting and critically engaging.
Throughout the program, students will have the opportunity to develop a variety of important and high-demand skills, including: anti-oppressive and intercultural practice in working with diverse populations (including youth, immigrant communities, Indigenous populations) critical analysis, research and writing group facilitation and leadership individual and group counselling conflict mediation and restorative justice community organizing, activism and development proposal writing and program evaluation policy analysis and rights-based advocacy
