Course Description

Humber’s Addictions and Mental Health graduate certificate program will empower you with the knowledge and skills you need for a rewarding career. Learn to deliver responsive, culturally relevant, client-centered assessment and treatment to diverse individuals and groups. Practise ways to effectively collaborate and transform lives as a valuable part of a professional support team. You will acquire the knowledge, skills and abilities required by front-line workers in order to deliver effective addictions and mental health services while promoting empowerment, self-determination and optimum quality of life to individuals with addictions and mental health issues. Recovery principles, empowerment practice, and the impact of early and ongoing trauma in the lives of individuals across the lifespan are examined in the curriculum. Use and sharpen new skills while gaining crucial on-the-job work experience during a mandatory work placement that takes place in Semester 3. The placement, which is unpaid, is arranged with the assistance of a field placement co-ordinator. You will have an opportunity to provide evidence-informed, clinic-based and educational services to diverse individuals and groups experiencing addictions and mental health related challenges. Qualify for employment in various organizations including community mental health and addictions services, residential treatment centres, youth and family services, housing services, and crisis response services. Our graduates seek career opportunities such as community support worker, housing worker, case manager, counsellor, crisis worker, addictions counsellor and mental health worker.

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