Community Development Worker
RAC is a process that enables you to obtain official recognition of the competencies you have acquired through your work and life experiences, in relation to a program of study.
By having your skills recognized with a view to obtaining a recognized college diploma, you increase your employability and your chances of advancement.
About the program
For people with experience as:
- Worker
- Animator
- Project Manager
- Coordinator
in community-based organizations
Working in sectors such as:
- Community centers
- Literacy associations
- Prevention centers
- Organizations for newcomers
Condition of admission
Relevant experience
You have experience related to the competencies of the targeted program of study. This experience may have been acquired through employment, volunteer work or personal situations. This experience is of significant duration and has enabled you to develop several competencies related to the program of study.
Prerequisites
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
RAC Process