Certificate in Personal Support Worker

at Canadore College - College Drive Campus Canada

Advance your education with this specialized environmental training designed to complement your previous training and improve your employability skills. This Graduate Certificate program is hands-on, with a large portion of the training happening in the field – the living lab. Join this trending career field and help manage a changing planet.

What You Learn:

• Field sampling techniques
• Drinking water certification
• GPS/GIS training
• Resource management
• Environmental auditing and analysis
• Applied geomatics
• Risk assessment
• Environmental technology

Wellbeing professionals with preparing in psychological well-being and addictions are exceptionally looked for after. Get ready for an important vocation in this popular field. You will prepare to work in psychological well-being and fixation explicit settings, including a wide range of social and wellbeing organizations. Learn in class and in the field, through reproduction and gathering learning, under the talented guidance of our educators. The College works together with offices over the territory and with neighborhood establishments for experiential and situation openings. 

Candidates enrolled in the mental health program at Canadore College will be able to learn and enhance their knowledge in crisis intervention, abnormal psychology, dynamics of chemical dependency, foundation of psychology and sociology, recovery strategies and relapse prevention and other sub topics in the field. Upon successful completion of the program students may find job opportunities in hospitals, recovery or rehabilitation homes, addiction treatment centers and prevention programs.

Train for a career in a growing field of Applied Behaviour Analysis. This specialized program will train you to work in a variety of fields with children, youth and/or adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder or other Developmental/Intellectual disabilities, acquired brain injury and/or mental health within the community, clinical setting, schools, residential placements and hospitals

Students will study a branch of psychology called Applied Behaviour Analysis- the science of assessing, analyzing and changing human behaviour.  Students will learn about the theory and clinical applications and technique of behaviour analysis and modification through an applied learning style and placement.

Graduates are qualified to work in a number of settings working with individuals or groups with mental health issues, autism or other developmental disabilities, to help them build new skills, or reduce problem behaviour and prevent crisis situations.

What You Learn (3 year)
Students will learn applications related to research in the field of ABA, and will be able to write and examine a research topic of interest through an individual research study. Students will complete a second placement in a clinical setting and will gain knowledge while working with special areas of focus, such as forensics, mental health, hospital settings, as well as high-risk behaviours. Students will also examine group behavioural therapy.

• Forensics and risk assessment
• Research and statistics
• Behavioural group therapy
• Individual Research assignment
• Additional Placement

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

Prepare for an exciting career in this diverse field. This post-graduate program will help you develop the skills to research, analyze, and manage many aspects of business. Gain transferable skills that will make you more employable or give you the skills and knowledge to start your own business in your area of expertise.

What You Learn

• Marketing for managers
• Entrepreneurship
• International business
• Market research
• Finance
• Statistical analysis

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

Obtain the knowledge you need to make an informed program choice, and the necessary skills and prerequisites to start your academic career in the health sector. This program will prepare you for further college studies in the health sciences sector. 

Graduates of this program are prepared to meet the eligibility requirements for a number of Canadore College programs including: Practical Nursing, Biotechnology Technologist, Occupational Therapist Assistant and Physiotherapist Assistant, and Environment Technician - Protection and Compliance

What You Learn

• Human biology
• Chemistry
• Communications
• Mathematics
• Psychology
• Critical thinking and reasoning

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

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

Enhance and learn to evaluate, treat and manage the care of patients with cardiopulmonary abnormalities. Respiratory advisors are a necessary piece of the social insurance group giving ventilation and aviation route the board, cardiopulmonary revival, oxygen treatment, and helping with high-chance births and anesthesia in the working room. 

The third-year position incorporates the Hospital for Sick Children and Holland Bloor-see Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, enable understudies to increase down to earth involvement in neonatal and pediatric settings. Graduates enter this sought after, lifesaving field and discover work in an assortment of dynamic settings.

The program is designed to meet the core clinical competencies of the Respiratory Therapy practice framework. The Advanced Diploma in Respiratory Therapy program helps students to learn and enhance their knowledge on anatomy and physiology, patient assessment, cardiac and pulmonary diagnostics, airway and ventilation management, invasive vascular procedures, pathophysiology and pharmacology.  Upon completing the program successfully, understudies may seek their job opportunities in the areas of hospitals, home care, community clinics, education and research, diagnostic labs and others.