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Child and Youth Worker |
School of Social & Community Services |
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Type:
Advanced Diploma
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Campus:
Lakeshore
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Program Code:
01041 |
Length:
Six semesters, beginning in September and January
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CONTACT INFORMATION: General Enquiry | 416.675.5005 | enquiry@humber.ca
Brenda Webb, CCW, MEd, program co-ordinator | 416.675.6622 ext. 79261 | brenda.webb@humber.ca |
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Humber also offers the Bachelor of Child and Youth Care degree program 22231 and the Child and Youth Worker – Accelerated advanced diploma program 10421.
For more information visit Fees and Financial Assistance.
$300 to $400 – texts, supplies (per year); $180 – crisis intervention training fees (over three years); $30 to $50 – Police Record Check (as requested by placement agencies).
Semester 1 | ||
| Course Code | Course | Credits |
| COMM 200 | College Writing SkillsCollege Writing SkillsCourse Code: COMM 200 Credits: 3 College Writing Skills emphasizes elements of the writing process. Although subject matter and format may change from one program to another, the skills necessary for effective writing remain the same, as do the professional standards that all Humber students are expected to attain.
Students will practice the reading and writing skills that will be valuable in their college programs and build a strong base for professional business writing. Those students who plan to further their studies will develop the fundamental skills for writing acceptable academic English.
To help students reach these goals, the course covers the following: analytical reading and critical thinking; essay organization and development; and the elements of clear writing, including grammar and punctuation skills.
To complete COMM 200 successfully, students must produce writing that meets or surpasses the minimum departmental standards as set out in the attached criterion sheet.
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| CYW. 100 | Child DevelopmentChild DevelopmentCourse Code: CYW. 100 Credits: 3 A study of the growth and development of the child from conception, prenatal development, birth to infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood. The physical, biosocial, cognitive, psychosocial and emotional factors will be considered. Special emphasis will be placed on emotional and behavioural difficulties that may arise due to interruptions of the normal developmental process. | 3 |
| CYW. 102 | Therapeutic Activities Programming 1Therapeutic Activities Programming 1Course Code: CYW. 102 Credits: 2 This course will introduce students to the therapeutic value of play and to a variety of activities for children and youth. It will include an in-depth look at play, the importance of creativity, game and activity selection, as well as an opportunity to create a game of therapeutic value. In-class activities will provide the students with ideas, some practical experience and expertise in carrying out activities. General age groups to be covered are primary, middle and late childhood and adolescence for both the average child and the child with special needs. Some specific areas of activities will be highlighted and continued in CYW. 202 Therapeutic Activities Programming 2. | 2 |
| CYW. 103 | Community Resources and LegislationCommunity Resources and LegislationCourse Code: CYW. 103 Credits: 2 This course will familiarize the student with the relevant legislation and community resources that he/she will use in his/her work with children, youth and their families. | 2 |
| CYW. 106 | Group Dynamics 1Group Dynamics 1Course Code: CYW. 106 Credits: 2 This course involves the study of group dynamics. The course will examine the basic issues and key concepts of the group process and outline how group leaders can apply these concepts when working therapeutically with groups of children, adolescents and/or their parents. Students in this course will actively participate in experiential learning groups during class. | 2 |
| HUMA 024 | Humanities: An Introduction to Arts and ScienceHumanities: An Introduction to Arts and ScienceCourse Code: HUMA 024 Credits: 3 The Humanities course focuses on fundamental questions individuals ask of themselves as they proceed through life. Why are we the way we are? Do we have free will or are we prisoners of our past experience or our biological inheritance? What motivates societies to change? Why do societal changes so often divide people into opposing camps? Why do so many people find contemporary life at home, at work, and in the community unfulfilling? What constitutes good government? How should injustice be fought? Can nations successfully deal with global problems? What is science and how does it differ from other kinds of inquiry? Can scientists provide solutions to the problems we face? What is art and does it offer answers of its own? What is its relationship to beauty, to knowledge, and to ethics? Is objectivity about art (or anything) possible? These questions are organized into units that begin with issues concerning the nature of the individual and then extend outward to various social, cultural and physical contexts.
The issues explored in this course are too complex to have any one right answer. Rather, individuals must search for answers that make sense of their experiences via various theoretical perspectives. The Humanities course supports this endeavour through study of different thinkers presented in the readings and exploration of different points of view explored in class discussions.
ESL students should consider taking the ESL Humanities course. Students may transfer into
ESL Humanities (HESL 024) either at the Registrar?s Office or the School of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Office (K201) on a first-come, first-served basis before the Last Day to Add. | 3 |
| CYW. 104 | Introduction to Professional SkillsIntroduction to Professional SkillsCourse Code: CYW. 104 Credits: 3 This course is an introduction to the professional and personal skills that are expected of child and youth workers in the field. An important objective of this course is for students to begin to assess and develop their own personal and professional growth and understanding. | 3 |
| CYW. 108 | Child and Youth Work Interventions 1Child and Youth Work Interventions 1Course Code: CYW. 108 Credits: 4 This is the introductory course on the fundamental aspects of child and adolescent interventions. The intention of this course is to give students the opportunity to understand, practice and implement direct interventions in their work with children and youth prior to the first field placement. The course is highly interactive and practical. The hands-on classes will develop a strength-based, positive psychology approach when working with young people. | 4 |
Semester 2 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| COMM 300 | Business Writing SkillsBusiness Writing SkillsCourse Code: COMM 300 Credits: 3 Business Writing Skills introduces students to the strategies of effective written workplace communication. This course is designed to build on and reinforce the writing skills developed in COMM 200 and requires students to apply these skills to vocationally relevant assignments. Students will learn how to select and organize pertinent information according to purpose and audience and will practise presenting their ideas clearly, precisely, and effectively in various written formats. To complete COMM 300 successfully, students must produce writing that meets or surpasses the minimum departmental standards as set out in the criterion sheet. | 3 |
| CYW. 200 | Adolescent Development Adolescent DevelopmentCourse Code: CYW. 200 Credits: 3 This course is an overview of the growth and development of the child through middle childhood and adolescence. Physical, cognitive, social and emotional factors will be considered. Special emphasis will be placed on factors that contribute to emotional and behavioural concerns during this developmental process. | 3 |
| CYW. 202 | Therapeutic Activities Programming 2Therapeutic Activities Programming 2Course Code: CYW. 202 Credits: 2 This course is a continuation of CYW. 102 Therapeutic Activities Programming 1 and will deal with various forms of creative activities (painting, clay, arts and crafts, storytelling, etc.), life skills, sports activities, and camping skills. These activities will provide the student both with ideas and some practical expertise in carrying out the activity. Also included will be discussions on creative and therapeutic values of the different activities with both children and adolescents. General age groups to be covered are primary, middle and late childhood and adolescence for both the typical child and the child with special needs. | 2 |
| CYW. 205 | Field Work 1 Field Work 1Course Code: CYW. 205 Credits: 12 The student will spend two days per week, for 15 weeks, in a setting for children and adolescents. This will take place in one of the following settings: schools; special education classes for behavioural children; day treatment programs, therapeutic preschool programs. | 12 |
| CYW. 206 | Group Dynamics 2Group Dynamics 2Course Code: CYW. 206 Credits: 2 This course involves the study of group dynamics. The course will examine the basic issues and key concepts of the group process and outline how group leaders can apply these concepts when working therapeutically with groups of children, adolescents and/or their parents. The focus of this course will be on the transition stage, working stage and the ending stage of a group. Students in this course will actively participate in experiential learning groups during class. | 2 |
| PSYC 001 | Psychology: An IntroductionPsychology: An IntroductionCourse Code: PSYC 001 Credits: 3 How many times in the course of a day do we wonder about human behaviour? We shake our heads and ask why the person in the car ahead of us cut us off. We ask why it is that the person sitting beside us has his/her nose pierced. We try to explain why our boss blew up at a co-worker over an insignificant issue. We question the motives for our own actions. In the course of day it seems that we are challenged over and over again to explain the behaviour of those around us and indeed ourselves. Most often we do so using common sense, based on our limited experience, our socialization and our own biases. Psychology is the field of study that examines human behaviour scientifically. This course will introduce the student to psychological theories and a variety of psychological research topics, including the biological bases of behaviour, learning and memory, psychopathology, social attitudes and behaviour. Students will be encouraged to be introspective and to apply what they learn to their personal behaviour in order to gain a better understanding of themselves and others. Students who have taken PSYC 008 or PSYC 105 cannot take this course. | 3 |
| CYW.204 | Integrative Seminar 1 Integrative Seminar 1Course Code: CYW.204 Credits: 2 How many times in the course of a day do we wonder about human behaviour? We shake our heads and ask why the person in the car ahead of us cut us off. We ask why it is that the person sitting beside us has his/her nose pierced. We try to explain why our boss blew up at a co-worker over an insignificant issue. We question the motives for our own actions. In the course of day it seems that we are challenged over and over again to explain the behaviour of those around us and indeed ourselves. Most often we do so using common sense, based on our limited experience, our socialization and our own biases. Psychology is the field of study that examines human behaviour scientifically. This course will introduce the student to psychological theories and a variety of psychological research topics, including the biological bases of behaviour, learning and memory, psychopathology, social attitudes and behaviour. Students will be encouraged to be introspective and to apply what they learn to their personal behaviour in order to gain a better understanding of themselves and others. Students who have taken PSYC 008 or PSYC 105 cannot take this course. | 2 |
Semester 3 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| CYW. 306 | Assessment and RecordingAssessment and RecordingCourse Code: CYW. 306 Credits: 2 This course will introduce various forms for completing intakes, assessments, and ongoing recording techniques commonly used in the child and youth worker field. Important objectives in this course are for the student to learn how to assess what is important to record and how to record information professionally. | 2 |
| CYW. 309 | Interviewing and CounsellingInterviewing and CounsellingCourse Code: CYW. 309 Credits: 4 This is both a theoretical and practical course in counselling with the focus primarily on the development of basic concepts, skills and intervention strategies required of the professional child and youth worker. | 4 |
| CYW. 316 | Abnormal Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence 1Abnormal Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence 1Course Code: CYW. 316 Credits: 3 This course will deal with: the diagnosis, classification, causes and treatment of psychological disorders in children, adolescents and young adults; developing an understanding of symptoms of disorders; developing an understanding of the views of abnormal versus normal behaviours. | 3 |
| CYW. 319 | Child and Youth Worker Interventions 2Child and Youth Worker Interventions 2Course Code: CYW. 319 Credits: 4 A child and youth worker engages in a therapeutic process when the process is purposeful, goal directed and utilizes recognized and proven practices to facilitate client growth. This course is designed to educate the student on philosophies, techniques and methods that can be therapeutically applied in a variety of situations. This course builds on CYW.108 by focusing primarily on prevention. | 4 |
| CYW. 403 | Psychology of the FamilyPsychology of the FamilyCourse Code: CYW. 403 Credits: 3 This course will deal with family dynamics from a systemic and a developmental viewpoint. It will cover systems theory, family structure and development, communication, families in transition, history and culture. | 3 |
| CYW. 407 | Responses to AbuseResponses to AbuseCourse Code: CYW. 407 Credits: 3 This course will deal with issues surrounding neglect, emotional, physical and sexual abuse in the context of how the abuse occurred for the client. An important objective for this course is for the student to begin to be able to recognize some common behavioural manifestations of the abuse survivor, and how best to intervene to provide support and personal safety for that client. | 3 |
Semester 4 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| CYW. 310 | Integrative Seminar 2Integrative Seminar 2Course Code: CYW. 310 Credits: 2 This seminar provides students with the opportunity to integrate theoretical course material with their own development as individuals and as child and youth workers, using their fieldwork experiences as a focus. The class is issue-oriented, dealing with material brought by the students from their experiences in the field. | 2 |
| CYW. 315 | Internship 2: Organizational Skills Internship 2: Organizational SkillsCourse Code: CYW. 315 Credits: 3 The student will spend four and a half days a week, for 15-weeks, in a setting for children and adolescents. This will take place in residential treatment centres, group homes, therapeutic preschool programs, day treatment programs, etc. | 3 |
| CYW. 317 | Internship 2: Clinical Skills Internship 2: Clinical SkillsCourse Code: CYW. 317 Credits: 8 The student will spend four and a half days a week, for 15-weeks, in a setting for children and adolescents. This will take place in residential treatment centres, group homes, therapeutic preschool programs, day treatment programs, etc. | 8 |
| CYW. 318 | Internship 2: Personal SkillsInternship 2: Personal SkillsCourse Code: CYW. 318 Credits: 6 The student will spend four and a half days a week, for 15 weeks, in settings for children and adolescents. This will take place in residential treatment centres, group homes, therapeutic preschool programs, day treatment programs, etc. | 6 |
Semester 6 | Course Code | Course | Credits |
| CYW. 509 | Integrative Seminar 3Integrative Seminar 3Course Code: CYW. 509 Credits: 2 This seminar provides students with the opportunity to integrate theoretical course material with their own development as individuals and as child and youth workers, using their fieldwork experiences as a focus. The class is issue-oriented, dealing with material brought by the students from their experiences in the field. | 2 |
| CYW. 514 | Organizational Skills 2Organizational Skills 2Course Code: CYW. 514 Credits: 3 The student will spend four and a half days a week, for 15 weeks, in settings for children and adolescents. This will take place in residential treatment centres, group homes, therapeutic preschool programs, day treatment programs, etc. | 3 |
| CYW. 516 | Clinical Practicum 2Clinical Practicum 2Course Code: CYW. 516 Credits: 8 The student will spend four and a half days a week, for 15 weeks, in settings for children and adolescents. This will take place in residential treatment centres, group homes, therapeutic preschool programs, day treatment programs, etc. | 8 |
| CYW. 517 | Personal Development 2Personal Development 2Course Code: CYW. 517 Credits: 6 The student will spend four and a half days a week, for 15 weeks, in a setting for children and adolescents. This will take place in residential treatment centres, group homes, therapeutic preschool programs, day treatment programs, etc. | 6 |
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