| Description: | NorQuest College offers an approved, two-year Social Work Diploma program with a multicultural focus. As its mission, the program emphasizes the value of human diversity and teaches practice within an anti-oppressive framework that is supportive and empowering. Graduates are employed in government and non-governmental settings in areas such as child and youth protection, addictions counseling, family support, and other related helping disciplines.
Students in the Social Work program can expect to develop knowledge and skills in the following areas: social work foundations, the helping process, social policy, assessment and interviewing, social work models and practice, working with groups, working with families and communities, mental health, and abuse, violence, and addictions.
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