Human Services Professional Diploma

Employment Opportunities

Graduates from the Human Services Professional Diploma Program may be successfully employed in a variety of settings such as public and private educational settings, social and community service agencies such as group homes and halfway houses, correctional facilities, community health centres, and in programs addressing alcoholism, drug abuse, family violence, and aging. Human Service workers offer assistance to individuals requiring physical and cognitive rehabilitation and lifestyle maintenance – including leisure integrative programs, children and youth at risk, settlement services, and supporting individuals requiring social work assistant intervention. Education Assistants may work in any number of educational facilities such as public and private schools with students having all types of needs. Many students with disabilities require daily assistance. The starting salary for Human Services workers can be up to $63,000 per year.

Employment possibilities may include but are not limited to:

• Social Work Assistant
• Child and Youth Care Worker
• Education Assistant
• Settlement Worker
• Respite Specialist Worker
• Community Support Worker
• Child and Family Support Worker
• Disability Services Worker
• Immigrant Aid Support Worker
• Outreach Worker
• College and University Admissions Advisor

Graduation/Employment Success

Columbia College has been successfully preparing Human Services workers since 2006.
2018 – 2019: 96% Graduation Rate

Introduction

Why choose Columbia College’s Human Services Diploma Program?

• Columbia College has been educating human services workers since 1996. We have the experience to know what you need to become a professional in this area and secure employment.
• Our one year accelerated Human Services diploma program gives you the opportunity to build a solid foundation in the helping profession by completing two years of study in one year. Complete fifty-weeks and you are finished, ready for work.
• Not only to you build this foundation, but you can concentrate on a specialization area of your choice – General or Education Assistant.
• We prepare you to be employment ready. You engage in practicums, start networking in the profession, resume writing, interviewing strategies, attend practicum workshops, and get a certificate in Non-Violent Crisis Intervention Training.
• This program is licensed by the Private Vocational Training Branch of the Alberta Government.

Employers of Graduates

The following is a list of organizations that have hired graduates of this program:

• Woods Homes
• Society for Treatment of Autism
• Independent Counselling Enterprise
• Boys and Girls Club of Calgary
• Little Treasures Inc.
• Foothills School Division
• Kids U West 85th
• Calgary Drop In Centre
• Bright Beginners Children Centre Ltd.
• Evergreen College
• Calgary Progressive Lifestyle Foundation
• Community Living Alternative Services
• Mosaic Montessori Academy
• Alberta Human Services
• Heartland Agency
• Bow Valley Child Care Centre