Bachelor of Social Work
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Skills and knowledge you may gain from your program:
- Ability to practice social work in accordance with social work codes of ethics
- Understanding of social work’s professional role in advancing human rights
- Ability to critically analyze social, political and economic structures that limit human and civil rights
- Ability to advance social justice for individuals, families, groups and communities
- Knowledge about how discrimination and oppression have a negative impact on particular individuals and groups.
- Ability to reflect on their self as it relates to engaging in professional practice through a comprehensive understanding and consciousness of the complex nature of their own social locations and identities
- Ability to apply critical thinking to structural sources of inequalities in the Canadian context.
- Skills in social work research
- Ability to interpret social policies and processes
- Ability to identify gaps in organizational and societal systems and advance solutions to change oppressive social conditions
- Competently perform professional practices including engagement, referral, assessment, planning, intervention, negotiation, mediation, advocacy and evaluation.
- Engage in interprofessional practice with individuals, families, groups and/or communities
Careers
- Child Welfare Agencies
- Community Centres
- Government Departments
- Human Resource Departments
- Mental Health Facilities
- Non-Governmental Organizations
- Non-profit Organizations
- Nursing Homes
- Probation, Parole and Prison Services
- Social Service Agencies
- Substance Abuse Centres
- Women Health and Crisis Centres
Job Titles of Program Graduates:
- Addictions Counsellor
- CBT-I Counsellor
- Child and Youth Mental Health and Addictions Navigator
- Child Protection Worker
- Clinical Youth Outreach Worker
- Community Organizer
- Dementia Care Coordinator
- Diversion Worker
- Intake Coordinator
- Mentorship & Transition Support Coordinator
- Personal Care Attendant
- Settlement Counsellor
- Social Worker Case Manager
- Trauma care Counsellor