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

With its unique blend of evening and weekend courses, as well as online and in-person delivery, professionals can continue to work in their chosen careers while attending the program. Classes are scheduled for two evenings each week and one or two weekends each semester. For more information on class schedules, individuals are encouraged to contact the program coordinator. This two-semester graduate certificate course is designed for those with professional and educational backgrounds in helping professions or public safety who wish to enhance their knowledge and skills in addiction and mental health. Focusing on how communities can collaborate using interprofessional approaches to addictions and mental health, students will discover how different professions can work together to provide outstanding public services. They will learn about responsive, culturally relevant, client-centered strategies and interventions that support individuals, groups, youth, and families. Opportunities will be provided for students to apply their learning, specifically regarding effective collaboration and transforming lives as valuable members of a professional support community. A strong emphasis in this program is placed on developing an understanding of diverse populations and the skills required to tailor strategies to meet their needs. Students will practice skills to enhance cultural safety in their support of clients by considering their unique social, ethnic, religious, racial, spiritual, and cultural characteristics. They will also learn about 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.