The Social Services Worker ? Recovery Specialist program at CDI College builds upon your work in the Social Services Worker ? Foundations program, giving you an opportunity to specialize in addictions recovery.
Social Services Workers
Social services workers play a vital role in the healthcare field, particularly in the areas of mental health, poverty, and addictions recovery.
This program at CDI College gives you the hands-on training you?ll need to start a career in social services.
Social Services Worker ? Recovery Specialist Program
In the program, you?ll receive job-ready training for working with clients affected by addiction, including learning the fundamentals of poverty, addiction, and mental health.
Additionally, you will receive these certifications:
Standard First Aid & CPR
Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) certification
Non-Violent Crisis Intervention (NVCI) certification
FOODSAFE – Level 1
WHMIS for Employees
Medication Administration for Support Workers
Working in Social Services
Additionally, as part of the program, you will also participate in a work experience term, giving you an opportunity to apply your theoretical knowledge and new skills working in the field as a social services worker in British Columbia.
This program has been approved by the registrar of the Private Training Institutions Branch (PTIB) of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training.
Campus Availability
Burnaby
Richmond
Surrey
Vancouver