Sheridan’s Community Worker-Outreach and Development Program equips you with skills to empower a local, regional or international community to bring about change. Learn what you need to know to facilitate and organize a grassroots effort. Get real world experience through the program’s over 575 hours of field placement. Through your community development diploma program, you'll gain skills and knowledge in:
- Facilitating groups and workshops
- Community economic development
- Advocacy and conflict resolution
- Health promotion
- Partnership and coalition building
- Human Rights and Civic Engagement
- Fundraising and grantwriting
- Developing and conducting surveys
- Recruiting and managing volunteers
- Applied research
- Non-profit marketing
- Program planning
- Participatory community development
Professors are experienced community workers. In addition to full academic qualifications, all have strong connections in the community.
Field Practica Give Real-World Experience
In Year 2 you will engage in a placement that will help build your employability skill-set. You'll spend two days per week in field placement in Term 3, and in Term 4 field placement is three days per week plus one block week.
Awards
Awards are granted in this program based on community leadership and academic excellence.
University Links
The Community Worker-Outreach and Development diploma program has an Articulation Agreement with Athabasca University. Credits count toward the Bachelor of Professional Arts in the Human Service Major program.
The Community Worker-Outreach and Development Program is available at the Sheridan Davis Campus, Brampton, Ontario.
A Sheridan education enhances your job prospects. When you complete your Community Worker diploma program, you'll be qualified to work in the following areas:
- Volunteer management
- Group facilitation
- Social marketing
- Fundraising
- Health promotion
- Resource creation
- Conflict resolution
- Program management
Our graduates work in both profit and non-profit human service organizations including such employers as World Vision, Region of Peel, Salvation Army and others.
"The Community Worker program empowered me to make a difference in the world. My two years in the program at Sheridan were the most satisfying of my academic life. I would highly recommend this program to anyone who wants to help others, but is still seeking the tools needed to do so."
- David Mader, 2004 Graduate
Community Worker--Outreach and Development Program
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, including these required courses:
- One English, Grade 12 (ENG4C or ENG4U)
or
Mature student status. (See "Admissions" section for details.)
APPLICANT SELECTION
Eligible applicants will be selected on the basis of their previous academic achievement (the average of their six highest senior-level credits, including required courses).
Applicants who do not meet the admission requirements for this program will be assessed and advised individually and may be considered for other, related programs.
CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK AND IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS
Sheridan field placement agencies may require a police record check for criminal offences, a vulnerable sector check and/or a current acceptable record of immunization. Students will be required to provide this documentation directly to their field placement prior to the start of the placement and at their own expense. Students who cannot meet these requirements may have limited field placement opportunities. A blank immunization form can be found at: http://healthforms.sheridancollege.ca
| CODE |
TITLE |
CREDITS |
| |
|
|
| TERM 1 |
|
|
| HEAL 17629 |
Health Promotion and the Lifecycle |
3 |
| PSRV 12511 |
Volunteer Management |
3 |
| COMM 19999 |
Essential Communication Skills |
3 |
| PSYC 15065G |
Psychology Core Concepts |
3 |
| SOCI 13767 |
Human Rights and Civic Engagement |
3 |
| CSRV 10016 |
Introduction to Community Work |
3 |
| |
|
|
| Total: |
|
18 |
| |
|
|
| TERM 2 |
|
|
| CSRV 12935 |
Advocacy: Power and the Community |
3 |
| CSRV 12289 |
International Community Development |
3 |
| CSRV 14601 |
Foundations of Counselling |
3 |
| CSRV 10738 |
Group Facilitation |
3 |
| CSRV 14115 |
Community Based Research |
3 |
| GNED |
General Education Elective |
3 |
| |
|
|
| Total: |
|
18 |
| |
|
|
| TERM 3 |
|
|
| PSRV 13566 |
Mediation and Conflict Resolution |
3 |
| CSRV 12903 |
Non-Profit Marketing and Community Outreach |
3 |
| PSRV 18783 |
Fundraising and Grantwriting |
3 |
| BUSM 11249 |
Non-profit Management |
3 |
| FLPL 28350 |
Practicum Seminar 1 |
2 |
| FLPL 29901 |
Practicum 1 |
8 |
| |
|
|
| Total: |
|
22 |
| |
|
|
| TERM 4 |
|
|
| CSRV 20441 |
Advanced Issues in Community Development |
3 |
| PSRV 15037 |
Program Planning and Evaluation |
3 |
| FLPL 25524 |
Practicum Seminar 2: Community Outreach |
3 |
| FLPL 22361 |
Practicum 2: Community Outreach |
9 |
| GNED |
General Education Elective |
3 |
| |
|
|
| Total: |
|
21 |
Note: Courses subject to change.