College Diploma - Community Worker - Fast-Track (C131)

Join the Fast-Track Community Worker program at George Brown College! Empower diverse communities and gain hands-on experience. Apply now!

Community Worker (Fast-Track) is a dynamic social justice program grounded in the principles of human rights and anti-oppression practice. Over the course of three semesters, students will learn how to work with urban-centred, diverse communities across a range of issues such as: poverty, housing, food justice, immigration and settlement. Students will develop the skills they need to be responsive to their needs as they change and evolve. The three-semester Fast-Track program combines classroom instruction with supervised field placements. Theory, analysis and practice are presented through a variety of innovative instructional tools developed from popular education and learner-centred approaches to teaching and learning. Throughout the program, students will have the opportunity to develop a variety of important and high-demand skills, including: anti-oppressive and intercultural practice in working with diverse populations (including youth, immigrant communities, Indigenous populations) critical analysis, research and writing group facilitation and leadership individual and group counselling conflict mediation and restorative justice community organizing, activism and development proposal writing and program evaluation policy analysis and rights-based advocacy