CARE - Addiction Counselling & Community Agency Worker Diploma

Program Objectives

The Addictions Counselling & Community Agency Worker program has been designed with a broad but intensive scope. The “broad” goal is to prepare the graduate student as a community helper. The “intensive” focus includes specific skills in the area of addictions, as well as the general and advanced “people skills” that will facilitate the students being successful in any of the thousands of community services agencies.

Career Opportunities

Addiction counselors hold professional and paraprofessional jobs in a diverse range of settings such as youth, and family social service agencies, and programs concerned specifically with detoxification, addiction treatment and recovery, dual diagnosis, family support services and working with seniors. Employers may range from government health authorities, contracted agencies, non-profit organizations, and privately owned public service agencies.

Program Courses:

SUST – Success Strategies & Writing Skills (25 hours)

Fundamentals Module (250 hours)

ADMO – Addiction Models & Public Policy (50 hours)
PHTH – Pharmacology ~ Theory (50 hours)
PHDM – Pharmacology ~ Drugs & Medicines (50 hours)
ADD1 – Addictive Disorders 1 (50 hours)
ADD2 – Addictive Disorders 2 (50 hours)

Client Services Module (250 hours)

EVTR – Evaluation & Treatment Planning (50 hours)
REPR – Relapse Prevention (75 hours)
SEPO – Selected Populations (50 hours)
CAMA – Case Management (50 hours)
CORE – Community Resources & Networking (25 hours)

Relationships Module (250 hours)

ETCO – Ethical Counseling Relationships (50 hours)
CLIN –Clinical Interviewing (50 hours)
GRFA – Group Facilitation (50 hours)
FASY – Family Systems (50 hours)
YOIN – Youth Intervention Strategies (50 hours)

Life Management Module (250 hours)

PSYC – Psychology (75 hours)
COMM – Communication (50 hours)
HEPR – Health Promotion (50 hours)
SETR – Secondary Traumatic Stress (50 hours)
SUAI – Suicide Assessment & Intervention (25 hours)