Social Service Work in Practice
Timeline
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May 8, 2024Experience start
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June 24, 2024Communication log Midterm
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June 24, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Midterm
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August 16, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Final
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August 19, 2024Communication log Final
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August 20, 2024Experience end
Timeline
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May 8, 2024Experience start
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June 24, 2024Communication log Midterm
Students must fill out the communication log for every day that they are set to be on placement/ working on the project. At midterms, students must submit this document for evaluation.
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June 24, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Midterm
Midway through the project, employers are asked to complete an evaluation of the student's performance.
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August 16, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Final
Nearing the end of the project, the employer is asked to complete an evaluation of the student's performance.
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August 19, 2024Communication log Final
Students must fill out the communication log for every day that they are on placement. Upon completing the project students must submit this document for evaluation.
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August 20, 2024Experience end
Experience scope
Categories
Community engagement Social workSkills
advocacy economic systems resilience social policy trauma informed approaches social issue researchDoes your business focus on delivering services to individuals, families and communities? Bring on learners from Fanshawe College's Program of Social Service Work as they elevate their skills related to human behaviour, social problems and helping techniques. Learners will devote up to 300 hours over one term, practicing the skills they have learned in the classroom. Learners are expected to:
- Examine current social policy, relevant legislation, and political, social, historical, and/or economic systems and their impacts for individuals and communities when delivering services to the user/client
- Develop strategies and approaches that support individual clients, groups, families and communities in building the capacity for self-advocacy, while affirming their dignity and self-worth
- Work from an anti-oppressive, strengths-based practice, recognizing the capacity for resilience and growth of individuals and communities when responding to the diverse needs of marginalized or vulnerable populations to act as allies and advocates
- Work with individuals, groups, families and their communities to ensure that service provider strategies promote social and economic justice, and challenge patterns of oppression, discrimination and harassment, and sexual violence with clients, coworkers and communities.
- Develop the capacity to work with the Indigenous individual, families, groups and communities while respecting their inherent rights to self-determine, and to identify and address systemic barriers that produce ill-effects, developing appropriate responses using approaches such as trauma informed care practice.
Learners
Deliverables will ultimately be negotiated between the learner and the employer. Some examples of potential deliverables could be:
- Any assets related to the project (website design, research, outreach documents)
- Reflection/review of the process
- Portfolio/reference of activities completed
- Fresh perspective on issues
Project timeline
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May 8, 2024Experience start
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June 24, 2024Communication log Midterm
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June 24, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Midterm
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August 16, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Final
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August 19, 2024Communication log Final
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August 20, 2024Experience end
Timeline
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May 8, 2024Experience start
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June 24, 2024Communication log Midterm
Students must fill out the communication log for every day that they are set to be on placement/ working on the project. At midterms, students must submit this document for evaluation.
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June 24, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Midterm
Midway through the project, employers are asked to complete an evaluation of the student's performance.
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August 16, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Final
Nearing the end of the project, the employer is asked to complete an evaluation of the student's performance.
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August 19, 2024Communication log Final
Students must fill out the communication log for every day that they are on placement. Upon completing the project students must submit this document for evaluation.
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August 20, 2024Experience end
Project Examples
Requirements
Learners can work in a variety of capacities and can complete projects related to:
- Social program creation and delivery
- Community development
- Outreach programs
- Advocacy campaigns
- Helping coordinate community service projects or initiatives
- Providing support to individuals or families experiencing crisis
- Community resource mapping
- Empowerment programs
- Community needs assessments
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
Are you able to provide an evaluation of the student's work?
Timeline
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May 8, 2024Experience start
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June 24, 2024Communication log Midterm
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June 24, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Midterm
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August 16, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Final
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August 19, 2024Communication log Final
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August 20, 2024Experience end
Timeline
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May 8, 2024Experience start
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June 24, 2024Communication log Midterm
Students must fill out the communication log for every day that they are set to be on placement/ working on the project. At midterms, students must submit this document for evaluation.
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June 24, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Midterm
Midway through the project, employers are asked to complete an evaluation of the student's performance.
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August 16, 2024Employer/Agency Evaluation Final
Nearing the end of the project, the employer is asked to complete an evaluation of the student's performance.
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August 19, 2024Communication log Final
Students must fill out the communication log for every day that they are on placement. Upon completing the project students must submit this document for evaluation.
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August 20, 2024Experience end