It is with excitement that CTS Canadian Career College is pleased to offer the Addictions and Mental Health worker diploma training program: the newest addition to our Health Sciences program offerings.
This diploma program prepares the graduate for professional and paraprofessional positions in areas of counselling and intake within correctional facilities, group homes, young offender facilities, emergency shelters, schools, youth and adult counselling facilities, mental health centers, and other institutions.
Upon entering this intense 52-week program, students will be coached by highly qualified instructors who bring over twenty years of focused training and specialized certifications. They also bring a genuine passion for teaching individuals who choose to pursue a career working with this vulnerable sector of our community.
A 260-hour inclusive work placement experience is included.
Addiction and Mental Health Courses:
| Intro to Computers and Google Apps |
Academic and Professional Success Strategies/AODA & OH&S |
| Working with Families and Youth |
260-hour inclusive placement |
| Criminal Justice – Mental Health & Addictions |
Case Management and Assessment |
| Group Facilitation Concepts |
Human Services Resources & Networking |
| Interprofessional Collaboration for Health Providers |
Pharmacology |
| Preventive Health Promotion |
Relapse Prevention & Intervention / After Care & Life Skills |
| Secondary Traumatic Stress |
Diversity of First Nations and Selected Pop. in Health and Illness |
| Basic Psychology |
Effective Business Writing |
| Counselling Relationship Best Practices |
Interviewing Techniques |
| Communication Strategies |
Fundamentals of Addiction |
| CPR and Mental Health First Aid |
Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) |
| Interpersonal Workplace Skills/Job Search |
Admission and Discharge Assessment Techniques |
| Abnormal Psychology and Mental Health |
Concurrent Disorders |
| Sociological Perspectives on Mental Health |
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