Professional Learning for Career Enhancement and Advancement
We focus on delivering short-format, career-relevant, human-centred, education for professionals in Justice, Social and Community Services.
Accelerated, Fully Online, Justice Programs
Micro-credentials
Our Micro-credentials provide you with an opportunity to enhance your expertise in a specialized area. These targeted learning experiences are mapped to skills that are new and in high demand. Upon completion, you will be granted a shareable digital badge that validates your competencies to the world. Time to get started.
Faculty of Social & Community Services, Continuous Professional Learning
ABA Strategies for Front-line Educators
This micro-credential equips front-line educators with practical Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) strategies to effectively support students with diverse learning needs. This micro-credential introduces basic principles and concepts of ABA, including the use of evidence-based interventions to promote positive behavioural outcomes. Modules emphasize practical application and problem-solving, such as the use of Functional Behaviour Assessments and the exploration of behavior intervention strategies, including positive reinforcement, token economies, and behavior contracts. Through hands-on activities, case studies, and role-playing exercises, learners practice implementing ABA strategies in simulated classroom scenarios. Overall, earners of this micro-credential can demonstrate proper use of ABA-based strategies to help enhance a supportive and inclusive learning environment.
In Person
7 Hours
Not Stackable
Faculty of Social & Community Services, Continuous Professional Learning
Advanced Skills in Policing
This intensive micro-credential sharpens the core competencies that police officers require to excel at the sergeant level: clear and purposeful communication, strategies in de-escalation, ethical decision-making in high-risk contexts and team leadership. Through a combination of lectures, case study discussions, guest speakers and experiential learning with supportive coaching, learners will practice key skills. Anti-racism and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) principles are integrated throughout the micro-credential. A simulation-based assessment requires learners to demonstrate their competency by effectively engaging with actors to de-escalate a tense situation routinely faced by front-line officers.
In Person
28 Hours
Not Stackable
Faculty of Social & Community Services, Continuous Professional Learning
Sustainable Urban Farming
In this micro-credential, learners gain foundational knowledge related to sustainable urban farming practices, including both a theoretical understanding of the socio-economic elements related to food sovereignty and the applied learning of building and maintaining a small-scale sustainable urban farm (i.e., an indoor vertical garden). This micro-credential is comprised of seven online modules, delivered in a fully asynchronous format. A vertical garden kit is included in the fees and will be shipped, free of charge, to any Canadian address.
Online
21 Hours
Not Stackable
Faculty of Social & Community Services, Continuous Professional Learning
Understanding Investigative Genetic Genealogy
This micro-credential is for anyone who is curious about genetic genealogy and how DNA is used to help solve crimes. Using real case studies, learners gain a basic understanding of DNA and how genetic genealogy can, and cannot, be used in a criminal investigation. Issues such as privacy rights, national standards, and the positive social impact of solving homicide cases with this technology are discussed. The final assessment, “Cracking the Case”, is a story-based journey in which learners go through a fictional homicide case and must correctly answer a series of questions related to module content.
Online, Self-Paced
12 Hours
Not Stackable
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To learn more about our Continuous Professional Learning options please contact us.
Kimberly Carter
Associate Dean, Continuous Professional Learning
Faculty of Social and Community Services