Chemical Addictions Worker (Certificate and Diploma) |
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Program Delivery Location
Community Based The Chemical Addictions Worker program provides core skills required for First Nations Wellness Addictions Workers, and includes Aboriginal specific content. This program will assist individuals who currently are Alcohol and Drug Counsellors and/or Addictions Workers, who may need to obtain professional development to meet job requirements. In addition this program is open to individuals who wish to seek employment in the addictions field. Program Objectives Graduates of the Chemical Addiction Worker Program will be able to: • Practice in a broad variety of settings including Aboriginal Treatment Centres, Friendship Centres, Aboriginal Health Centres, Aboriginal Communities and Organizations; • Understand the processes and interconnection, human, family, organizational and community development in relation to Addictions; • Understand how systemic forces influence Aboriginal individuals, families and community dynamics to both promote and impair self-determination, Aboriginal community relations, and relations with other Canadians through provincial and federal authorities relating to Addictions; • Describe, analyze and critique knowledge, as well as skills and approaches for Chemical Addiction Workers and their practice; • Articulate personal and professional ethical conduct consistent with Aboriginal values, beliefs and professional Chemical Addiction Worker code of ethics. Professional Conduct NVIT requires that applicants accepted into the Chemical Addiction Worker Certificate Program follow the FNWACCB Code of Ethics and may be required to withdraw from school for violating these provisions. For more information visit http://www.fnwaccb.ca/code.html. Program Structure To receive a Chemical Addiction Worker Certificate the student must maintain a minimum GPA of 2.00 (C) and complete 30 credits. The Chemical Addiction Worker Certificate will ladder into the Chemical Addiction Worker Diploma upon successful completion of the prescribed 30 credits. A Chemical Addiction Worker Diploma will be granted to students who successfully maintain a minimum GPA of 2.00 and complete the prescribed 63 credits in the NVIT Chemical Addiction Worker Program. The Diploma consists of 20 courses and one supervised field practicum (200 hours). Each course will consist of a minimum of 45 student/instructor contact hours and includes assignments and examinations. Learners may be assessed for how prior learning meets the program and course learning outcomes. The program may be delivered flexibly in Aboriginal communities as determined by NVIT in conjunction with those community partners. Guiding Principles for Personal Suitability Applicants to this program will be required to demonstrate their suitability for human service practice, and their concurrence with the generalist, interdisciplinary approach to working with Aboriginal and rural communities. Suitability will be assessed through a 5 page personal statement which the Department Coordinator will review. Experience in working in the areas of addictions in health and/or social service organizations (paid or voluntary) may improve an applicant’s ability to demonstrate suitability for the program. Career Opportunities Graduates of this program may find employment in the growing field of addictions counselling. Their work will be mainly with adults but may also include working with children, youth and families. Employment may be in agencies such as health centres and rehabilitation facilities, treatment centres, or Aboriginal agencies. For more information, please contact Kris Billy at 250.378.3390 or kbilly@nvit.bc.ca |
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Admission Requirements Applicants must : have completed Grade 12 or equivalent with: C+ minimum in Math 11 or MATH 051 (must be completed prior to commencement of year two) C+ minimum in English 12 or ENGL 060; be a minimum of 18 years of age on or before the first day of classes; |
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Year 1 The Chemical Addiction Worker Certificate is awarded to recognize the successful completion of one year of study. An overall GPA of 2.0 is required. |
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Year 2 The Chemical Addictions Worker diploma is earned with the completion of all courses listed under the Chemical Addictions Worker Certificate Completion Plan. The Chemical Addictions Worker diploma is awarded to recognize the successful completion of the equivalent of two years of full-time study. An overall GPA of 2.0 is required. |
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Course Listing for this program |
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ACHD 126 - Credits: 3.000 Self, Health and Wellness This course focuses on personal care and individual responsibility for the practice of basic stress management as it relates to service delivery. Emphasis is placed on understanding balancing of professional and personal lives. Students explore the concept of a collective learning format, which recognizes the importance of traditional Aboriginal values in the healing process. The theory and practice of the medicine wheel for health and healing and exploring mind/body/spirit connection to illness and wellness is compared with contemporary methods of self-care. Ethical issues associated with self-care and practice are explored. This course will address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse in residential schools, including the intergenerational impacts by providing students with the opportunity to explore the impacts of colonization and residential schools, including the many forms of abuse, on their own family systems. More Details on this course Prerequisites:ACHD 123 |
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ACHD 129 - Credits: 3.000 Introduction to Aboriginal Family & Counseling Systems The purpose of this course is to introduce family and counseling systems theory and practice from an Aboriginal perspective. Students will gain an understanding of the perspectives, theory methods, and practice of western counseling with an emphasis on Aboriginal worldviews, including traditional healing and ceremonies. This course will address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse in residential schools, including the intergenerational impacts by providing students with the opportunity to learn counseling techniques both contemporary and traditional that are relevant and specific to survivors and intergenerational family members of residential schools. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Program admission or permission from the Dean's office. |
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ACHD 223 - Credits: 3.000 Current Issues in Health In this course students will explore traditional and non-traditional trends of today’s health care for Aboriginal people. The course provides the view that Aboriginal people’s health is the product of a complex web of psychological, spiritual, historical, sociological, cultural, economic, and environmental factors. Students will analyze the health care system and its impact on Aboriginal family health and well-being. This course introduces students to integration of traditional and non- traditional approach to the delivery of health care in Aboriginal communities. Focus will be placed on health transfer as it relates to Aboriginal communities. This course will address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse in Residential Schools, including the intergenerational impacts by providing students with the opportunity to explore the impacts of colonization and Residential Schools, including the many forms of abuse, on their own family systems. More Details on this course Prerequisites:ACHD 123 / or ACHD 126 |
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ACHD 224 - Credits: 3.000 Addictions and Recovery This course will examine the various forms of addictions including substance, solvents, and process addictions. Students will have the opportunity to examine addictions from a structural perspective and how colonialism, and residential schools have contributed to the social challenges of Aboriginal communities. Processes of recovery will be explored, including western models and traditional models. This course will address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse in residential schools, including intergenerational impacts by providing students with the opportunity to understand how residential schools have contributed to high levels of addictions in our communities, and how recovery can be effective by utilizing a blend of contemporary and traditional models. More Details on this course Prerequisites:ACHD 126 |
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ACHD 228 - Credits: 3.000 Case Management: Roles & Responsibilities of Community Health This course will focus on casework practice and management for health care workers. This course will address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse in residential schools, including intergenerational impacts. It will also provide students with an understanding of the specific roles and responsibilities of community health workers, particularly those working in Aboriginal communities. Students will learn how to apply theory into practice; they will also look at casework examples and conduct an assignment with a community health worker. Students will learn about the administrative responsibilities of community health workers including developing competencies in office management, scheduling, recording and reporting, clinical and ethical decision-making as well as communicating with colleagues and supervisors. Students will learn the importance of self-care and implementing a personal wellness plan, to prepare them for their own professional careers. More Details on this course Prerequisites:ACHD 125 / or ADCT 104 |
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ACHD 230 - Credits: 3.000 Mental Health Wellness and Challenges Students will have the opportunity to apply concepts and principles of long-term care for individuals and families with chronic, complex mental health problems and/or developmental needs. They will also explore the difference between long-term care and short-term care treatment approaches. Areas of focus will include contemporary approaches (rehabilitative, habilitative and palliative care). Case studies will include but not be limited to organic illness, genetic mental disability, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychotic and neurotic conditions, personality disorders, impact of trauma and multi-generational trauma. This course will address the legacy of physical and sexual abuse in residential schools, including the intergenerational impacts by providing students with the opportunity to learn specifically about trauma and multi-generational impact of residential schools. More Details on this course Prerequisites:ACHD 224 |
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ADCT 101 - Credits: 3.000 Counselling Skills, Processes, Theory and Methods This course introduces students to several theoretical perspectives used in the counselling process. Students examine practice concepts such as problem solving, goal-setting, self-awareness and intervention methods. An Aboriginal perspective citing “ways of knowing” is explored as a mechanism in the process of problem identification. Students compare and contrast the ecological approach with traditional teaching of the medicine wheel as conceptual frameworks within the counseling process. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Program admission |
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ADCT 102 - Credits: 3.000 Psychology, Understanding Human Behaviour This course is an introduction to native psychology. It introduces the psychological understanding of human nature developed in tribal thought. These understandings include; 1) the development of the individual through the stages of life; 2) an introduction to ceremonial practices which promote healthy individuals, families systems, and communities; and 3) an introduction to the dynamics of native psychology as it relates to the client in recovery. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Program Admission |
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ADCT 103 - Credits: 3.000 Introduction To Mental Health This course introduces students to the principle of mental health and its association to the legacy of colonization. Students examine the colonization process as it relates to current high rates of depression, anxiety, alcoholism, suicide, and violence in Aboriginal communities. Students are required to use critical thinking and reasoning skills. An Aboriginal perspective guides the delivery of this course. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Program Admission |
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ADCT 104 - Credits: 3.000 Case Management The course will introduce students to management skills in the administration of caseloads, including the maintenance of appropriate records, developing procedures for diagnosing and planning, and for follow-up treatment after the client is released. This course will examine techniques that will ensure appropriate management of clients' treatment and of their files. This course will assist students towards balancing traditional Aboriginal and non - Aboriginal practices standards. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Program Admission |
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ADCT 105 - Credits: 3.000 Sociology Of Aboriginal Communities The course is designed to provide students with the conceptual tools and knowledge for understanding the nature of Aboriginal communities today. Aboriginal people have many different ways of approaching, understanding and talking about issues and specific world views which result from living in an enclosed society. This course will provide students with the opportunity to examine and discuss present day issues through the lens of significant contemporary, historical and legislative events. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Program Admission |
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ADCT 200 - Credits: 3.000 Pharmacology & Psychoactive Chemicals This course is designed to assist participants in developing an understanding of pharmacology and to increase their familiarity with the signs and symptoms of psychoactive chemical problems. Participants will gain knowledge of the effects and interactions of psychoactive chemicals that lead to dependence or addiction: physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally. Participants will gain information in the area of pharmacology to assist in conducting effective assessments, counselling, treatment and referral of clients. More Details on this course Prerequisites:MATH 050 / ENGL 060 / or Math 11, English 12 or equivalent or permission of instructor. |
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ADCT 203 - Credits: 3.000 SpeciaI Issues In Counselling Students explore the significance of communication and diversity as a foundation of basic counselling. Concepts such as cultural socialization, multiple worldviews, race, ethnicity, and gender are examined. The course provides students with a unique treatment of intercultural communication as a mechanism for examining special issues in the counselling process. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Program Admission |
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ADCT 204 - Credits: 3.000 Advanced Counselling Students explore, compare and contrast Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal counseling practice models. They examine theoretical frameworks such as cognitive-behavioral, tasks-centered, crisis intervention systems and ecological approaches. Students focus on anti-discriminatory and anti-oppressive perspectives as they relate to traditional teachings. Students research common threads/themes that connect Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal counseling practices. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Program Admission |
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ADCT 205 - Credits: 3.000 Practicum – Directed Practice In Addictions Counselling Students will gain practical experience and will meet future potential employers through a workplace practicum. The praticum will commence immediately and will consist of 200 contact hours of supervision and workplace assignments. Practicum placement will be under the discretion of the program. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Completion of all Chemical Addiction Worker program courses. |
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ADCT 294 - Credits: 3.000 Ethics and the Law This course is designed to provide participants with a basic understanding of ethics, laws, and confidentiality as they relate to the chemical addictions counseling profession. The course focuses on the code of ethics of addiction counsellors, legal and moral standards, confidentiality, discrimination, client welfare, public statements, competence, client-counsellor relationships, responsibility, and interpersonal relationships with regards to the role of the counsellor. Cultural diversity is always an integral component of the course work. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Program admission. |
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BUSM 200 - Credits: 3.000 Finite Mathematics This course is designed to build a mathematical base for persons planning to become involved in administration and/or business management. In recent years, there has been a dramatic increase in the need for business professionals to be able to use mathematics in research, statistics, problem solving and decision-making. This course is designed to expose students to the areas of mathematics that they are likely to require in their future jobs or areas of study. Topics include linear equations, sets and counting, probability, matrices, linear programming and solving financial problems. More Details on this course Prerequisites:ENGL 060 / MATH 051 / or English 12 and Principles of Math 11 or permission of instructor. |
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BUSM 207 - Credits: 3.000 Introduction To Statistics This course is designed for students who require a course in statistical concepts, principles and methods in preparation for working with statistical studies and analyzing data in their chosen field of study. The focus of this course will be on the logic and interpretation of statistical concepts and techniques in business settings. Much work will be required. This course introduces the student to basic statistical methods for analyzing both a quantitative and qualitative information, including graphic methods, sampling, descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The relationship of statistics to research methods is discussed, applications to business decisions is stressed. More Details on this course Prerequisites:BUSM 200 / or permission of instructor. |
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ENGL 110 - Credits: 3.000 College Composition English 110 prepares students to write successful college essays. This course focuses on the writing process. Students will learn how to develop, organize, write, revise, document, and edit essays. More Details on this course Prerequisites:ENGL 060 / or English 12 or permission of instructor. |
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PSYC 115 - Credits: 3.000 Adolescence and Addiction This course is designed to assist participants in understanding the effects of alcoholism and other chemical addiction related problems influencing the Aboriginal adolescent. The course focuses on developing an understanding of human development from conception to adolescence, including physiological/neurological development, the impact of intergenerational trauma, family dysfunction, adolescent chemical addiction, relapse and recovery. The course will also include an overview of assessment skills, and various screening and assessment instruments that can assist in conducting a comprehensive assessment of the adolescent and provide effective healing approaches to the problem of addiction. More Details on this course Prerequisites:Program Admission |
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SOCI 133 - Credits: 3.000 Group Dynamics This course is designed to assist participants through a process of experiential learning that provides skill building activities in group dynamics. Group facilitative skills will be developed or strengthened for use in chemical addictions counselling. Students will be exposed to didactic presentations aimed at applying, integrating, and reinforcing group dynamics. Cultural diversity is an integral component of this course. More Details on this course Prerequisites:ENGL 060 / ENGL 12, or equivalent, or permission of instructor. |
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