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Get the skills to be a Community Service Worker Professional

Program Overview

Oxford College’s Community Service Worker (CSW) diploma program gives you the knowledge, practical skills, and confidence needed to create, implement, and oversee a variety of social and community-based programs. Our program combines classroom learning and practical training to prepare you to better serve the community.

You will develop skills in client assessment, proper referral procedure, monitoring clients’ treatments, and evaluating treatment effectiveness to help change people’s lives for the better. As a community service worker, you will assist individuals and families with personal and social problems.

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Students will learn how to:

  • Become helping professionals in human services
  • Utilize community resources
  • Understand issues of diversity
  • Work with high-risk populations
  • Work with addiction and mental health issues
  • Manage dynamics within families
  • Build communication techniques and processes
  • Develop non-violent crisis intervention skills
  • Perform first aid and CPR
  • Understand ethics and professionalism

Program duration: 45 Weeks

Career Opportunities

Graduates are employed by group homes, shelters, community mental health centres, alcohol and drug treatment facilities, social service agencies, and other community facilities.

  • Community service worker
  • Residential counsellor
  • Rehabilitation care worker
  • Addictions support worker
  • Group home worker
  • Community health worker

Industry Salary Information

  • Average Wage ($/hr): $21.92
  • High Wage ($/hr): $33.18
  • Annual Salary: $43k – 67k

* Information Source: www.jobbank.gc.ca/trend-analysis. Salary data provided is an estimate, and is intended for reference purposes only.

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