Certificate in Personal Support Worker

at Canadore College - College Drive Campus Canada

People are a key resource in businesses, large and small. Learn how industry manages employees for better job satisfaction, staff development, and employee relations in this one-year program. Learn essential human resources functions within the domestic and international business environments like how to facilitate and guide staffing, performance management, training, and health and safety. Gain the skills needed to contribute to organizational development strategies and manage human resources activities of any organization.

What You Learn

• Human resources management and planning
• Corporate training and development
• Mediation skills/conflict resolution
• Labour relations
• Human rights and workplace investigation
• Finance

Prepare for a creative and dynamic career. You can’t launch a new business, product or service without a visual element. As a graphic designer you could be creating logos, advertisements, animations, branding, ad images, digital content and websites. In the program you will learn and develop specific skills and techniques, compile an extensive portfolio, and gain invaluable work-related experience working with real clients.

What You Learn:

• Corporate identity and branding
• Digital photography
• Illustration – traditional and digital
• ePublishing and print production
• Typography and page layout
• Design and advertising
• Online content, motion graphics and animation

Start an exciting career in the rapidly growing digital visual effects industry. Create dynamic and realistic visual effects for use in film, television, games, and architectural visualization. Learn to produce a concept sketch and storyboard, shape a model, stage a scene and represent movements in three dimensions. Gain professional skills through a practical, hands on approach in labs that are outfitted with the latest tools and industry-standard software with training focused on major trends in visual, digital, and special effects arts.

What You Learn:

• Editing, lighting, rendering, and matte painting
• Compositing
• Concept design
• Texturing
• Character modelling
• Animation

Increase the aptitudes and information you requirement for work in an assortment of habit settings through down to earth, hands-on learning. The educational program depends on the all-encompassing lessons of the Medicine Wheel, with an emphasis on the underlying drivers of fixation inside Indigenous people group. You will learn both social and standard ways to deal with addictions directing. Preparation in the program ranges from pharmacology to conventional strategies including Sacred Circles, Teaching/Learning Circles, and the utilization of the four holy medications - tobacco, cedar, savvy and sweet grass. 

Understudies may seek their employment in traditional medicine, family resource centers, young offender residential centers and alcohol and drug treatment units. Consequently, understudies will be helpful to develop their knowledge and skills in the areas of Traditional healing, learning and teaching, Cultural specific helping, Challenges facing Indigenous communities, Interviewing, reporting, and documenting, Addictions counseling skills, Relapse preventions, Multiculturalism, Psychology and sociology.

Start your career in the emerging field of genomics. This program integrates molecular and cellular-based strategies to study the structure, function and regulation of an individual's genomic legacy. Learn to apply techniques such as genotyping and next generation sequencing to unlock the power of the genome. An emphasis will be placed on understanding the pathogenesis of diseases and learning how genetic variation interacts with an individual's environment, nutrition, and lifestyle. Canadore’s new innovative genomics laboratory is equipped with some of the most leading-edge technology in Canada including two DNA sequencers that provide the capacity for research in areas such as pharmacology, addictions, and disease prevention.

What You Will Learn:

• Genetic Profiles/Signatures
• Next Generation Sequencing
• Applied Molecular Genetics
• Cellular Metabolism (Micronutrients)
• Nutrigenomics
• Pharmacogenetics and Toxicogenetics

Develop the knowledge, skills, and judgement needed to become a self-regulated health professional. A large part of your training will include hands-on clinical practice. Students work with clients from the community on-site in Canadore’s Dental Hygiene Clinic, where they offer free dental hygiene services as they put their clinical theory into practice. Graduates are in high demand, finding employment in dental offices, hospitals, and research institutes. This program is accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation of Canada.

What You Learn

• Oral anatomy
• Principles of radiography
• Microbiology
• Periodontics
• Pharmacology
• Orthodontics for dental hygienists

This 10-month intensive program is intended for graduates of university degree programs in the Humanities or Social Sciences or diploma programs in a related human services field. [Mental Health and Addictions, Child and Youth Worker, Developmental Services Worker, Nursing, Gerontology, Early Childhood Education, Recreation, Community and Justice Services or others to be determined by the Program Co-ordinator.]

Applicants must have completed 40 hours of direct experience with clients in a social agency. 

Following the eight-month in-class portion, students will have a two-month field placement opportunity in a community agency.

This one-year Ontario College Graduate Certificate Program prepares graduates for a rewarding career in the field of Project Management. Project Management is a highly sought discipline that involves the application of knowledge, skills and techniques to execute projects effectively and efficiently. Project managers are in high demand across all industries. Graduates of the Project Management Graduate Certificate program will learn how to initiate, plan, monitor and control projects through to successful completion. They acquire the competencies to lead diverse project teams within a broad range of sectors in public, private and not-for-profit settings, while applying content-specific knowledge of their previous studies and experiences. Graduates work in leadership positions, developing and monitoring performance measures and adapting to project constraints, while managing communications within and among teams.

What You Learn

• Project planning
• Scheduling and cost management
• Communication management
• Leadership and human relations
• Procurement and contract management
• Quality management

See your name in the credits! Train in Post Production and have the chance to work on actual film projects and Hollywood movies. Learn advanced processes for this highly specialized field including: advanced video editing, audio mixing, ADR and colour grading. Canadore offers several opportunities for experiential learning through industry partners and movies and television series being filmed in the local region. Graduates of this one-year certificate program can go on to work in a number of areas including film, video production and television, to name a few.

What You Will Learn:-

• Advanced video and audio editing
• Colour grading
• Audio post production
• Mastering
• ADR recording
• Closed captioning

The ecological segment is developing and there is a rise of new "green" employments - locally, broadly and all inclusive. Experts are expected to manage environmental change issues, land reclamation, water preservation, water the board, and other manageability concerns. This program offers you the chance to take in hands-on from experienced educators in the lab and in the field, and addition the aptitudes you have to dispatch an energizing and applicable profession. 

Graduates enrolled in the program will enhance their knowledge on the topics of microbiology and toxicology, biology and chemistry, environmental monitoring, drinking water provincial certification, earth science and ecology, applied geomatics, benthos bio-monitoring provincial certification and more. Students may seek their career opportunities in the area of government agencies and ministries, energy sector, natural resources, private corporations, water agencies, conservation authorities and others relevant to the field.