Sheridan’s Community Worker-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 575 hours of field placement. Through your community development diploma program, you'll gain skills and knowledge in: facilitating groups and workshops, community economic development, advocacy and conflict resolution, non-profit marketing, and more!
The goals and objectives of ACHD are in keeping with NVIT's mandate, to provide quality Aboriginal Education and support services appropriate to student success and community development. The Aboriginal Community and Health Development Diploma program aims to formally educate individuals to provide community and health development services to Aboriginal communities.
The Aboriginal Human Services Diploma program provides students with training, knowledge, and skills to assess needs, and to formulate and implement strategies to enhance the quality of life for Aboriginal children, families and communities. It is a two-year diploma program that prepares students to provide direct and indirect services to individuals, families, and communities in a variety of multi-disciplinary settings.
Graduate education provides an excellent background for careers in private business, government service or research. Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology (REES) offers programs in the sub-disciplines of agricultural and resource economics, forest economics and rural (environmental and resource) sociology.
Le Programme court en développement socioéconomique vise à donner à l'étudiant des connaissances dans le champ du développement économique et à optimiser le professionnalisme des tâches à accomplir dans le cadre de sa fonction. Tout au long de sa formation, l'étudiant sera confronté à des cas concrets de développement socioéconomique qui lui permettront d'améliorer de façon continue ses compétences et ses habiletés dans le domaine du développement économique de sa communauté.
The Professional Master of Public Administration degree program is a graduate level program offered in partnership with Queen's University. This program will develop skills required in public policy development and analysis. It will augment management skills required for senior administrators in Indigenous organizations to translate policy into action. The program is unique in that learners are able to complete a specific concentration in Indigenous Policy & Governance.
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue: The First Peoples' University
Ce programme permettra à l'étudiant d'acquérir les outils et les connaissances lui permettant de contribuer à des projets et même de lancer et mener à bien ces projets de développement économique et social en tenant compte des spécificités de l'environnement géographique, politique et culturel de sa communauté ainsi que des ressources humaines et financières disponibles. Il permettra également d'explorer des pistes de développement adaptées à sa communauté et de contribuer à une réflexion sur l'importance du leadership et de l'éthique pour une saine gestion de ce développement.
Developed by the UBC Institute for Aboriginal Health and UBC Continuing Studies, this award-winning certificate program is designed to help those who work in Aboriginal communities to increase the community’s capacity to deliver services, coordinate programs and promote the health of their people. The program expands its focus beyond health delivery to include environmental and other community health issues.
The Collaborative Program in Community Development provides students with a multidisciplinary graduate education in community development. Community development involves working with community members and groups to effect positive change in the social, economic, organizational, or physical structures of a community that improve both the welfare of community members and the community’s ability to direct its future.
