Sheridan’s Community Outreach and Development Program equips you with skills to empower a local, regional or international community to bring about change. Learn what you need to know to facilitate and organize a grassroots effort. Get real world experience through the program’s over 600 hours of field placement, including an opportunity for international placement. Through your community development diploma program, you will gain skills in:
- Facilitating and influencing
- Community economic development
- Community education
- Advocacy and conflict mediation
- Health promotion, crisis prevention (CPI) and first aid training
- Partnership and coalition building
- Fundraising
- Developing and conducting surveys
- Gathering and managing volunteers
- Applied research
- Social Marketing
- Program Planning
Professors are experienced community workers. In addition to full academic qualifications, all have strong connections in the community.Your Community Development college classes are a hybrid between lectures, engaging group discussions, individual activities and Internet research. You will use your laptop computer to complete assignments online and in the classroom.
Field Practica Give Real-World Experience
You will have the option to undertake a project-based international placement in Ecuador during the summer after Year 1. Or, you can engage in a local placement during Year 2. During Term 3, you will spend 2 days per week in field placement and in Term 4 field placement is three days per week plus one block week.
Awards
There are a number of awards available to students in this program.
University Links
The Community Development diploma program has an Articulation Agreement with Athabasca University. Credits count towards the Bachelor of Professional Arts in the Human Service Major Program.
The Community Development Program is available at the Sheridan Davis Campus, Brampton, Ontario.
A Sheridan education enhances your job prospects. When you complete your Community Development diploma program, you will be qualified to work in the following areas:
- Volunteer management
- Group facilitation
- Social marketing
- Fundraising
- Health promotion
- Resource creation
- Conflict mediation
Our graduates work in both profit and non-profit human service organizations including such employers as World Vision, Region of Peel, Salvation Army and others.
"The Community Worker Program empowered me to make a difference in the world. My two years in the program at Sheridan were the most satisfying of my academic life. I would highly recommend this program to anyone who wants to help others, but is still seeking the tools needed to do so."
- David Mader, 2004 Graduate,
Community Worker--Outreach and Development Program
PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY
Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, including these required courses:
- One English, Grade 12 (ENG4C or ENG4U)
or
Mature student status. (See "Admissions" section for details.)
APPLICANT SELECTION
Eligible applicants will be selected on the basis of their previous academic achievement (the average of their six highest senior-level credits, including required courses).
Applicants who do not meet the admission requirements for this program will be assessed and advised individually and may be considered for other, related programs.
CRIMINAL RECORD CHECK AND IMMUNIZATION REQUIREMENTS
Sheridan field placement agencies may require a police record check for criminal offences, a vulnerable sector check and/or a current acceptable record of immunization. Students will be required to provide this documentation directly to their field placement prior to the start of the placement and at their own expense. Students who cannot meet these requirements may have limited field placement opportunities. A blank immunization form can be found at: http://healthforms.sheridaninstitute.ca
| CODE |
TITLE |
CREDITS |
| |
|
|
| Term 1 |
|
|
| HEAL 17629 |
Health Promotion and the Lifecycle |
3 |
| PSRV 12511 |
Volunteer Management |
3 |
| COMM 19999 |
Essential Communication Skills |
3 |
| PSYC 17967 |
Psychology Core Concepts |
3 |
| CSRV 14115 |
Research Methods |
3 |
| CSRV 17062 |
Introduction to Community Development |
3 |
| |
|
|
| TOTAL: |
|
18 |
| |
|
|
| TERM 2 |
|
|
| CSRV 12935 |
Advocacy: Power and the Community |
3 |
| CSRV 12289 |
International Community Development |
3 |
| CSRV 14601 |
Foundations of Counselling |
3 |
| CSRV 10738 |
Group Facilitation |
3 |
| SOCI 13767 |
Special Populations and Exceptionalities |
3 |
| GNED |
General Education Elective |
3 |
| |
|
|
| TOTAL: |
|
18 |
| |
|
|
| TERM 3 |
|
|
| PSRV 13566 |
Mediation and Conflict Resolution |
3 |
| CSRV 12903 |
Public Relations and Social Marketing |
3 |
| PSRV 18783 |
Fundraising Practice |
3 |
| BUSM 11249 |
Non-profit Management |
3 |
| FLPL 28350 |
Practicum Seminar 1 |
2 |
| FLPL 29901 |
Practicum 1 |
8 |
| |
|
|
| TOTAL: |
|
22 |
| |
|
|
| TERM 4 |
|
|
| CSRV 20441 |
Advanced Issues in Development |
3 |
| PSRV 15037 |
Program Planning and Evaluation |
3 |
| FLPL 25524 |
Practicum Seminar 2: Community Outreach |
2 |
| FLPL 22361 |
Practicum 2: Community Outreach |
9 |
| GNED |
General Education Elective |
3 |
| |
|
|
| TOTAL: |
|
20 |
Note: Courses subject to change.