Community and Health Services Navigation

WPL1300
Closed
Cambrian College
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Melanie Lefebvre
Professor and Coordinator
1
Timeline
  • May 9, 2022
    Experience start
  • June 4, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • June 18, 2022
    Experience end
Experience
3/10 project matches
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any, Non profit
Legal, Government, Education, Hospital, health, wellness & medical, Individual & family services

Experience scope

Categories
Public health Healthcare Social work Humanities Social sciences
Skills
communication research
Learner goals and capabilities

Students from Cambrian College are ready to virtually support individuals, families, and communities through delivering social service programming to clients. As a “professional in training”, our students are ready to help out in various ways, developing their skills, knowledge, and attitudes that are necessary to enter the field. We are looking for placement organizations where students can apply in practice the concepts and theories learned in the classroom. The students have learned in the classroom about many aspects of helping professions, including interpersonal skills, resource navigation, and case management.

Through their experiences students have goals which include the following:

  • Develop and build progressive relationships between individuals and their care team in order to best meet the individual’s goals.
  • Engage in the planning and development of wellness goals to minimize the challenges impacting the individual.

Learners

Learners
Certificate
Any level
30 learners
Project
210 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Individual projects
Expected outcomes and deliverables
  • Students can revise and/or help to create forms utilized with clients (e.g. support plans, transition plans) that are person-centered, strength-based, and in plain language.
  • Students can update and/or create community resource directories.
Project timeline
  • May 9, 2022
    Experience start
  • June 4, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • June 18, 2022
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Project topics may include but are not limited to:

  • Person-centred care
  • Strength-based communication
  • Assessments
  • Goal development
  • Care planning
  • Transition planning
  • Social determinants of health
  • Community resources
  • Provincial resources
  • Advocacy
  • Health literacy and plain language
  • Holistic wellness
  • Self-care
  • Ethical decision-making
  • Indigenous perspective on care
  • Working with diverse populations e.g. youth, older adults
  • Working across diverse sectors e.g. mental health, addictions, health care, developmental, law and justice, education

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

A representative of the company will be available to answer questions from students in a timely manner for the duration of the project.

A representative of the company will be available for a pre-selection discussion with the administrator of the course to review the project scope.