Certificate in Personal Support Worker

at Canadore College - Stanford Scarborough Campus Canada

This program trains students to offer personal care and home management services to clients in community or institutional settings. Personal support workers provide services to clients with physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioural challenges. Learn hands-on in the classroom, on community placements and in the home environment simulation lab equipped with high-end fidelity audio/visual equipment and interactive mannequins. PSWs are highly sought after as health care providers, working collaboratively as part of the health care team or in a supported independent living environment.

What You Learn

• Nutritional menu planning
• Clinical and community care (hospital and long-term)
• Simulation and lab work
• Diseases and pharmacology
• Patient client home care

Prepare for a leadership role in a variety of health care settings and learn all aspects of health care operations and concepts as they relate to a multi-disciplinary team. This one year program will prepare you to be responsive to different cultures and behaviours in a number of situations and environments.

What You Learn

• Leadership
• Health care operations
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Financial practices
• Human resources
• Law and ethics
• Admissions Req

Civil engineering technicians are highly sought after in a number of industries including construction, mining, transportation, and road construction. This in-demand career has unlimited employment options in both the public and private sectors. Many of the things we use every day are impacted by civil engineering, including dams and power stations, water and sewage treatment plants, roadways, and structures both large and small. This program will provide you with the tools of the trade to be successful in this diverse profession.

What You Learn (2 year)

• Computer-aided drafting and design (CADD)
• – both 2D and 3D
• Surveying and GPS
• Highway/Road design and planning
• Design and construction of infrastructure
• Applied strength of materials

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

There is an expanded interest for qualified early youth teachers. Get what it takes you have to begin a compensating profession working with little youngsters. This movement based program is shown utilizing a comprehensive methodology in which the phases of a kid's formative development are underscored including intellectual aptitudes and socio-passionate improvement. 

Alumni of our program discover professions working in organization with instructors in kindergarten study halls crosswise over Ontario, just as other early learning conditions. Understudies will develop understanding on child development, language and literacy development, special education, health, safety and nutrition, environmental or outdoor learning course and others. 

Upon graduation students will be able to knowledgeably skilled in the construction project management process and be able to function within multi-disciplinary teams consisting of project managers, architects, engineers, regulators, and environmental consultants, contractors.

What You Learn

• Quantity surveying, estimating, and bidding procedures
• Law and contracts for the construction industry
• Construction and the environment
• Construction job site controls
• Tender process

Whether you want to climb the corporate ladder or start a new career in business, finance, or accounting, Canadore's Accounting program provides you with the skills you need. Become a key asset to any business, anywhere in the world.

What You Learn

• Management accounting
• Corporate finance
• Taxation
• Financial management
• Economics
• Excel, spreadsheet modelling

Mobile devices are everywhere and are used to readily in the business and personal lives of people all over the world. This field is exploding and skilled app developers are in high demand. New applications are being created daily for games, maps, medical applications, banks, media outlets - and the list goes on. Students work hands-on with Blackberry, Playbooks, iPads, and Android devices.

What You Learn

• Develop for Blackberry, Apple, and Android mobile devices
• 3D graphics, animation, rich media
• Game development
• Web development for mobile devices
• Marketing and distribution of apps
• Video and audio editing
• AIR, JAVA, iOS

Effective management of your supply chain can give you a competitive advantage in this sophisticated environment.
Customers are demanding flexibility, options, rapid delivery and just-in-time support. Today’s successful supply chain managers must be strategists, able to synchronize every effort involved in the process: planning, sourcing, producing, and delivering a product or service.

Program Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes represent culminating demonstrations of learning and achievement. In addition, learning outcomes are interrelated and cannot be viewed in isolation of one another. As such, they should be viewed as a comprehensive whole. They describe performances that demonstrate that significant integrated learning by graduates of the program has been achieved.

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

• Examine the connections between strategic objectives, stakeholder expectations, and supply chain design, functions, processes and roles, to guide decision-making, problem-solving and coordination of tasks.
• Determine the value added and financial implications of supply chain decisions and design on overall business profitability, efficiency and stakeholder satisfaction.
• Ensure supply chain activities and transactions are compliant with relevant legal, regulatory and contractual obligations, and industry and organization standards and policies for quality, health, safety, accountability, social and environmental responsibility.
• Use risk mitigation tools and strategies to inform supply chain management decisions. Contribute to the acquisition and sale of goods, services and materials in accordance with best practices and public and private sector stakeholder expectations across a variety of industries.
• Contribute to the strategic planning and scheduling of material requirements, resource allocation and inventory for efficient production and fulfillment of customer orders and returns.
• Coordinate the efficient handling and movement of goods, services, materials and related information within and between supply chains.
• Contribute to the identification and management of continuous improvements to functions and processes within and between supply chains.
• Use available technologies to enhance work performance and support supply chain functions, processes, transactions and communications.
• Monitor relevant trends, emerging technologies, and local and global economic, political and environmental issues to enhance work performance and guide management decisions.
• Use leadership and communication skills to establish and manage strategic relationships with a diversity of stakeholders and support the achievement of business goals.
• Develop and apply ongoing strategies for personal, career and professional development

Enhance your English language skills with the help of speaking, reading, listening and writing English. Get ready for your post-secondary education and develop your English language skills by pursuing Certificate in English for Academic Purpose at Canadore College at the Mississauga campus. The two semester program helps understudies to focus on listening, speaking, reading and writing skills that are required.

The department at Canadore College offers quality English language training in a supportive environment by utilizing the modern and social technologies. Students with the help of qualified and experienced instructors learn conversational English, reading, grammar, writing, pronunciation and listening, Cultural and social issues in small and friendly classes in a multicultural environment.