If you have a passion for helping others, are compassionate, understanding and a good listener, this may be the career for you! Graduates have enjoyed considerable success with job placement and the opportunities are growing. Within our 50week Community Support Worker Diploma are two employer supervised practicums, each is four weeks in duration. We benefit from strong ties to social service agencies in the Mid Island region and have recently placed students in settings that support pregnant teenagers, homeless persons, children with special needs, and those with substance abuse problems. We have also placed graduates in the area of First Nations outreach Community Support Worker student Kaitlyn Niddrie volunteers as a greeter at our Fall 2012 Graduation and community development, especially for youth and those in rehabilitation. Sprott Shaw CSW graduates can be found working at Ladysmith Resource Center, J. Garnons Williams (adult residential housing), Samaritan House, Nanaimo Men's Resource Center, The Cedars in Cobble Hill, Clements Society (Adult residential & adult day programs for mentally and physically challenged individuals as well as after school programs for challenged children), Child Development Centre, Pregnancy Crisis Center, Forward House in Parksville (adult day programs for adults with mental illness and addiction), Tansor Elementary School Daycare Center, VITALS in Cowichan (residential facilities for physically and mentally challenged adults, Bill's Place in Nanaimo (adult brain injury clients), Warmland Shelter in Duncan (transitional housing), Island Crisis Care Society, Nanaimo Association for Community Living, and One Stop (youth drop-in center). Community Support Worker graduates celebrate the completion As part of the enrolment process, students meet with our Community Support Worker instructor, Jan Hull. Jan brings into the classroom a wealth of experience in this helping profession. Her background includes teaching at the elementary school level and is a certified Mediator through the Justice Institute. Jan specialized in family mediation, and operates her own practice around the hours she teaches in the classroom Community Support Worker Instructor, Jan Hull at Sprott Shaw. During the 50-week program, students learn a variety of counselling techniques and theories, discuss child and adolescent growth and development, understand addictions and mental health issues and review social service supports available in the local community. Upon graduation, CSW students have the skills and knowledge to make a positive impact in the lives of the clients they serve. of their program and pose for a picture with CSW Instructor, Jan Hull (2nd from right) Sprott Shaw College 6-140 Terminal Ave, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5C5 www.sprottshaw.com facebook.com/groups/sprottshawnanaimo Phone (250) 754-9600 Over a year ago I entered a new phase in my life, and that phase was my decision to go back to school! I have been procrastinating about this huge step for the last ten years. I thought, my kids are older, I'm in a dead end job with no room for advancement, I wasn't getting any younger, so really what was I waiting for? I bit the bullet and signed up for the Community Support Worker/ Social Services Program. I am With 2 offers of employment, Patty so glad I did! My journey beenthusiastically rings the job bell gan last November and a year later I'm in a job that I love, with more prospects on the horizon. I feel a great sense of accomplishment and pride within myself today and for that I am very grateful. It was a long hard road of self discovery and acceptance for who I am. I truly feel that this was my time to discover that, and I don't think I would have found out who “Patty really was" had I not made the decision to go back to school. So I decided to take my “leap of faith”! I haven’t regretted my decision for one minute. Today I am a confident woman who is becoming comfortable in her own skin and for that I will be forever thankful. My teacher helped me see that, and aided me to recognize that I have a lot to contribute and just to go out there and grab it! Thanks to everyone at Sprott-Shaw for believing in me and for helping me to see that with hard work and dedication you can have everything that you want in your life...I am so proud of who I am today, and that I could be a positive role model for my kids! It was all worth it! For me, the thought of going back to school was terrifying. I dropped out of high school in grade 12 with less than average grades and never dreamed of getting a higher education. I honestly didn’t believe I could do Kate is enjoying her new position at The Ceit. But I took the leap of dars Rehabilitation Centre faith and decided to go back to school and get my CSW/SS diploma. It was far from easy. But with the support of amazing instructors, my classmates (many of whom are close friends now) and my own drive and determination, I came out a straight A student and hired out of both practicum placements. Now, I spend my days helping others in a way I have always dreamed. Anyone can accomplish what I have in the last year. It all comes down to how much of your self you are willing to put into it. I gave it my all and now my options are limitless. I say, take the leap of faith, give it everything you’ve got and you won’t be disappointed. Sprott Shaw College 6-140 Terminal Ave, Nanaimo, BC V9R 5C5 www.sprottshaw.com facebook.com/groups/sprottshawnanaimo Phone (250) 754-9600