Mental Health and Addiction Worker
The Mental Health and Addiction Worker program prepares graduates for meaningful careers across a range of community-based settings supporting individuals, families, and communities. Grounded in a holistic, biopsychosocial approach, the program reflects contemporary practice, where wellness and recovery are understood as dynamic, non-linear processes shaped by individual, relational, and structural factors.
Courses
- AMHW 102 — Fundamentals of Mental Health, Substance Use, and Addiction
- AMHW 103 — Theories and Integrated Approaches to Mental Health and Addiction
- AMHW 200 — Legislation, Policies and System Navigation
- AMHW 201 — Holistic Case Management and Collaborative Care Planning
- AMHW 202 — Group Facilitation in Mental Health and Addiction Practice
- AMHW 204 — Trauma-Informed Crisis Response in Frontline Practice
- AMHW 205 — Introduction to Pharmacology in Mental Health and Addiction Work
- AMHW 300 — Community Organizing as an Addiction and Mental Health Worker
- AMHW 301 — Motivational Interviewing and Advanced Counselling Skills
- AMHW 303 — Prevention, Harm Reduction and Health Promotion Interventions
- AMHW 310 — Field Placement 1
- AMHW 400 — Research Literacy and Evidence-Informed Practice
- AMHW 405 — AMHW 405
- AMHW 410 — AMHW 410
- CCCS 101 — Self-Care and the Care Economy
- CCCS 102 — Power, Privilege, and Oppression
- CCCS 103 — Interpersonal Communication
- COMM 160 — COMM 160
- COMM 170 — College Communications 2
- GNED 500 — Global Citizenship: From Social Analysis to Social Action 3B