Graduate Certificate - Community Collaboration in Addictions and Mental Health (CAM)

This 2-semster graduate certificate is designed for students with professional and educational backgrounds in helping professions or in public safety to enhance your knowledge and skills in addictions and mental health.

Focusing on the interprofessional aspects of addictions and mental health, students will discover how different professions work together to provide outstanding public services. Learn to deliver responsive, culturally relevant, client-centred assessment and treatment to diverse individuals and groups and practice ways to effectively collaborate and transform lives as a valuable part of a professional support community.

A strong emphasis in this program is placed on developing an understanding of diverse populations and the skills to tailor strategies to their needs. Students will practice the skills to enhance cultural safety in their support of clients by taking into account their unique and diverse social, ethnic, religious, racial, spiritual and cultural characteristics. Students will also learn the intricacies of working with exceptional populations within the mental health and addictions field, developing tools and strategies for individuals with neurocognitive and developmental disorders.