ACS Community Worker

ACS - Community Worker

The RAC program Community Worker (for Indigenous Candidates)* is intended for First Nations, Inuits and Métis who have real-life experience in community-based or traditional organizations such as: community centres, literacy associations, prevention programs, physical or mental wellness centres, family assistance programs, support organizations, youth support programs, community circles, etc.

The sixteen competencies of the program refer to knowledge and skills recognized in community intervention activities (group facilitation, assistance to people, program development).

*Program available online and offered in French.

Competencies evaluated

  • The sixteen competencies of the program refer to knowledge and skills necessary for community intervention (assistance to people, group facilitation, project and team management).

    • Examine the work functions and professional practices
    • Facilitate group sessions
    • Draft and revise texts in English
    • Communicate in the workplace
    • Use basic functions of everyday management and communications software
    • Manage a work team
    • Welcome a person in a helping relationship context
    • Assess human behavior and development
    • Conduct psychosocial interventions in a community organization
    • Manage a project
    • Develop activities related to the environment’s needs
    • Conduct interventions in a helping relationship context
    • Conduct interventions in a crisis situation
    • Process financial information to manage a budget
    • Intervene with people suffering from mental health and addiction disorders
    • Integrate a workplace

ACS - Community Worker

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