Add this graduate certificate to your degree or diploma in the helping professions or public safety and gain the skills to provide client-centred support for mental health and addictions.
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This 2-semster graduate certificate is designed for those with professional and educational backgrounds in helping professions or in public safety to enhance your knowledge and skills in addictions and mental health.
Focusing on the interprofessional aspects of addictions and mental health, you will discover how different professions work together to provide outstanding public services. Learn to deliver responsive, culturally relevant, client-centred assessment and treatment to diverse individuals and groups and practice ways to effectively collaborate and transform lives as a valuable part of a professional support community.
A strong emphasis in this program is placed on developing an understanding of diverse populations and the skills to tailor strategies to their needs. You will practice the skills to enhance cultural safety in your support of clients by taking into account their unique and diverse social, ethnic, religious, racial, spiritual and cultural characteristics. You will also learn the intricacies of working with exceptional populations within the mental health and addictions field, developing tools and strategies for individuals with neurocognitive and developmental disorders.
This program is specifically designed for working professionals. The curriculum consists of a combination of asynchronous and synchronous online course material as well as occasional short, but intensive in-person learning modules.
The recommended résumé boosters of Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NCVI) and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (A.S.I.S.T.) can be taken through Fleming’s Continuing Education during your studies.
Your program has mandatory requirements which may include a criminal reference check, first aid, CPR-C, etc. For more information, please see the Non Academic Requirements page.
In the final semester, you will integrate theory with practice. Through collaborative learning in Fleming’s simulation spaces and through case studies, students will practice addressing professional issues and ethical dilemmas and client-centred care.
A concurrent 7-week part-time field placement with a community agency or in a clinical setting will allow you to integrate and practice mental health and addictions theory and treatment strategies. Emphasis will be placed on using harm reduction strategies, recovery- oriented practice, trauma-informed interventions, and case management.
Students applying to Community Collaboration in Addictions and Mental Health must meet the following requirements:
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