Advanced Diploma - Child and Youth Care
- 3 years
- Duration
- 17,687 CAD/year
- Price
- Rolling admission
- Start
- Rolling admission
- Deadline
- Diploma
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Toronto / Canada
- Location
Program description
The advanced diploma program in Child and teens Care at Humber equips you to support children, teens, and their families in reaching their full potential. Students gain expertise in need assessment, program design and implementation, and planned settings. Additionally, students will learn how to encourage and facilitate good transformation through planned interventions and everyday life experiences. Fundamental knowledge about baby, child, and adolescent development, family dynamics, child and youth care relational practice principles, evidence-based or evidence-informed intervention modalities, group dynamics, cultural humility, and therapeutic activities are all imparted in this curriculum.
With many courses stressing self-reflection and the classroom serving as a professional practice setting, you will discover that self-awareness is a crucial aspect of professional practice. Working with children and teens who have complicated needs will require you to be emotionally mature and have a high energy level.
Our curriculum is taught by award-winning instructors who are experts in their fields and hold graduate degrees in addition to current, relevant experience. The program's therapeutic play lab, which promotes experience learning, is one of its main features.
Program structure
Semester 1
- Child Development
- Introduction to Professional Skills
- Community Resources and Legislation
- Relational Child and Youth Care Practice 1
- Group Dynamics
- College Reading and Writing Skills
Semester 2
- Core Competencies in Child and Youth Care
- Adolescent Development
- Family Dynamics
- Interviewing and Counselling
- Workplace Writing Skills
- Select 1 from the following courses
- General Elective
Semester 3
- Field Experience & Integrative Seminar 1
- Therapeutic Activities Programming
- Psychology of Mental Health and Illness 1
- Relational Child and Youth Care Practice 2
Semester 4
- Response to Abuse
- Relational Child and Youth Care Practice 3
- Human Sexuality
- Philosophies of Care
- Psychology of Mental Health and Illness 2
- An Introduction to Arts and Sciences
Semester 5
- Field Experience & Integrative Seminar 2
- Select 1 from the following courses
- General Elective
Semester 6
- Issues in Child and Youth Care Practice
- Field Experience & Integrative Seminar 3
Price
Fees per semester:
- Tuition 8,153 CAD
- Compulsory Ancillary Fee 444 CAD
- Compulsory Student Union Fee 66 CAD
- IGNITE Health and Dental Insurance Fee 111 CAD
- Enhanced Student Experience Fee (Optional) 20 CAD
- Program Ancillary Fee 0.00 CAD
- Co-op/Placement 0.00 CAD*
Total 8,795 CAD
*may vary every semester
Additional Costs
- 300 – 400 CAD – texts, supplies (for two semesters)
- 180 CAD – crisis intervention training fees (over three years)
- 30 – 50 CAD – police record check (as requested by community partners)
Requirements for applicants
International Academic Equivalencies:
- Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent including these required courses:
- Grade 12 English (ENG4C or ENG4U or equivalent)
- Three Grade 11 or Grade 12 C, M or U courses in addition to those listed above
or
- Mature student status
or
- College or university transfer status
For Indian applicants one of the following:
- All India Senior School Certificate/Higher Secondary School Certificate
- Year 12 State Board Exams with a minimum grade of 70 or above in required program subjects.
- Applicants who previously completed post-secondary education require to provide backlog summary. Maximum backlog attempts accepted:
- Bachelor’s degree 3 year: 2 backlog attempts
- Bachelor’s degree 4 year: 4 backlog attempts
- Master’s degree: no restriction
- 10 + 3 Curriculum: 4 backlog attempts
To be eligible you must possess the equivalent of an Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) and required courses as noted in the course list.
English Proficiency requirements are:
- A minimum TOEFL Academic Level score of 550 (paper based) or 80 (internet based) or
- an IELTS with an overall minimum score of 6.0 (with no single band score below 5.5) or
- CAEL with an overall band score of 60 or
- Cambridge English Test with B2 First / C1 Advanced / C2 Proficiency 169 (with no single subscore below 162) or
- Duolingo Language Test with score 105 and above+
- International applicants may be asked to submit an ICAS or WES evaluation.
About the university
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning (known as Humber College) was fonded in 1967. The college is located in Toronto, Canada.
The Humber North and the Lakeshore are the two primary campuses at Humber.
Humber College offers over 200 programs in 40 fields of study.
Students at Humber receive a polytechnic education. We educate theory, incorporate practical, hands-on training, and collaborate with employers to provide students with real-world learning opportunities. This innovative and entrepreneurial approach, which is taught in state-of-the-art and creative learning facilities, prepares students for today's and tomorrow's careers.
We are committed to your long-term success. A Humber education will help you map a sure path to your career and keep you up to date on shifting trends in the professional world as technology advances. Our programs combine theory and practice, allowing you to get practical experience both in the classroom and on the work. Professors with industry experience will teach you what skills are in demand.
