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
General
  • Certificate
  • 30 learners; individual projects
  • 210 hours per learner
  • Dates set by experience
  • Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
  • 3/10 project matches
  • Anywhere
  • Academic experience
  • Any, Non profit
  • Legal, Government, Education, Hospital, health, wellness & medical, Individual & family services
Categories
Public health Healthcare Social work Humanities Social sciences
Skills
communication research
Project timeline
  • May 9, 2022
    Experience start
  • June 4, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • June 18, 2022
    Experience end
Overview
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.
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 Examples

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.