Diploma in Social Service Worker Assiniboine Community College - Parkland Campus (Dauphin), Canada

Assiniboine’s two-year Social Service Worker diploma program prepares graduates for roles in community health centres, justice services, long-term care facilities, social service departments, schools, youth centres, outreach services, addiction centres and mental health services.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Develop respectful and collaborative professional and interpersonal relationships that adhere to professional, legal, and ethical standards aligned to social service work. 
• Record information accurately and communicate effectively in written, digital, verbal and non-verbal ways, in adherence to privacy and freedom of information legislation, in accordance with professional and workplace standards. 
• Integrate a practice framework within a service delivery continuum, addressing the needs of individuals, families and communities. 
• Plan and implement accessible and responsive programs and services, recognizing the diverse needs and experiences of individuals, groups, families and communities, and meeting these needs. 
• Examine current social policy, relevant legislation, and political, social, historical, and/or economic systems and their impacts for individuals and communities when delivering services to the user/client. 
• Develop strategies and approaches that support individual clients, groups, families and communities in building the capacity for self-advocacy, while affirming their dignity and self-worth. 
• Recognize the capacity for resilience and growth of individuals and communities when responding to the diverse needs of marginalized or vulnerable populations to act as allies and advocates. 
• Develop strategies and approaches to implement and maintain holistic self-care as a member of a human service profession. 
• Work with individuals, groups, families and their communities to ensure that service provider strategies promote social and economic justice, and challenge patterns of oppression, discrimination and harassment, and sexual violence with clients, coworkers and communities. 
• Develop the capacity to work with Indigenous individuals, families, groups and communities while respecting their inherent rights to self-determine. 
• Identify and address systemic barriers that produce ill-effects, developing appropriate responses using approaches such as trauma informed care practice.