Social Service Worker Field Placement

SSWR304
Closed
Main contact
Centennial College
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chair, Community Services
3
Timeline
  • January 18, 2021
    Program start
  • January 23, 2021
    Project Scope Meeting
  • April 2, 2022
    Program end
Program
4/4 project matches
Dates set by program
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any
Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society

Program scope

Categories
Law and policy Social sciences
Skills
counseling conflict resolution interpersonal skills advocacy communication
Participant goals and capabilities

Second-year Social Service Worker students are ready to virtually support individuals, families, and communities through delivering social service programming to clients. As a “professional in training”, our students are ready to help out in various ways, developing their skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are necessary to enter the field as a social service work practitioner. We are looking for placement sites where students can apply in practice the concepts and theories learned in the classroom. The students have learned in the classroom about many aspects of social service work, including interpersonal skills, counseling, group facilitation, and case management. Please note that all of our students will have their Vulnerable Sector Screening completed.

The students are available for 224 hours of unpaid, for-credit work experience beginning in January, 2021.

Participants

Participants
Diploma
Any level
180 participants
Project
224 hours per participant
Participants self-assign
Teams of 5
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Students have to create a learning contract as part of their field placement course, that outlines their specific deliverables, that is agreed upon by the agency. Students need to complete 224 hours for their Field Placement course.

Project timeline
  • January 18, 2021
    Program start
  • January 23, 2021
    Project Scope Meeting
  • April 2, 2022
    Program end

Project Examples

Requirements

Students, individually or in teams of 5-10, can work to support individuals, families, and communities through delivering excellent social service programming to clients. Although students are capable of providing research, more direct working with clients in preferred.

Project examples include but are not limited to:

  • Virtually facilitate a support group
  • Be a 'friendly visitor' to social isolated individuals such as seniors or individuals with developmental disabilities
  • Virtually organize and run a group for kids or families
  • Community outreach, engagement and/or community development
  • Social justice and/or advocacy work, including social policy research and/or advocacy

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this program:

  • Q1 - Checkbox
  • Q2 - Checkbox
  • Q3 - Checkbox