Program Highlights
Social Service Workers build and maintain relationships with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities; recognize and respond to individual, group, organizational and community injustices and inequalities; and provide direct services and/or a bridging to resources to improve the quality of peoples’ lives at the personal, cultural, and system levels. Social Service Workers provide these services in a range of residential and community settings while working with other professionals such as child and youth workers, addiction counsellors, teachers, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, nurses, and doctors.
The program is four semesters in length with classroom-based courses in the first three semesters and a block placement in the final semester. Applied learning activities are infused into our classroom-based courses such as:

Practicing interviewing and group facilitation skills for the purposes of engagement, assessment, goal planning and social support with individuals, groups, organizations, and communities;
Working in teams to plan on and off-campus events, fundraising campaigns, educational awareness days, and promotion of social change;
Conducting research to challenge forms of oppression as well as to design/develop/improve social service programs; and
Participating in self-care strategies for personal and professional well-being.

Career Opportunities
As a practicing Social Service Worker in Ontario, you will support people to recognize, develop and sustain their strengths to achieve good quality of life while they manage and challenge a broad range of personal and environmental barriers at the personal, cultural, and system levels. These include, but aren’t limited to:

The self and societal stigma that impact people with developmental disabilities, mental health conditions, addiction issues, concurrent disorders, and dual diagnosis disorders;
The experiences of persons who have been victims, witnesses, or perpetrators of intimate personal violence;
Poverty issues individuals, families, and communities face related to a lack of accessibility and availability of sustainable income, transportation, housing, food security, employment and educational/skills-training opportunities; and
The experience of persons who experience oppression based on race, culture, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, language, etc.

TRANSFER AGREEMENTS
You may be able to use credits obtained at Fleming College to continue your postsecondary education in pursuit of a degree. The articulation and credit transfer agreements with our partner institutions.