This article focuses on Centennial College’s Community and Child Studies courses, which have a twofold advantage of preparing students for more education and ensuring they develop personal and professional skills.

1. Community and Child Studies Training With
Specific Purpose
Summary: This article focuses on Centennial College’s Community
and Child Studies courses, which have a twofold advantage of
preparing students for more education and ensuring they develop
personal and professional skills.
If you are new to Canada, have an interest in community service or
child care, wish to enter the workforce in a career that is fulfilling —
but require assistance in development on a professional and personal
level — consider attending Community and Child Studies training.
This two-semester offering, which results in an Ontario College
Certificate, serves as an academic pathway to programs such as Early
Childhood Education, Child and Youth Worker, Developmental Service
Worker, Community and Justice Services, Police Foundations,
Recreation and Leisure Services and Social Service Worker.
Aside from serving as an academic launching pad, the Community and
Child Studies courses offer a solid academic base. This is achieved,
firstly, through the addressing of learners’ needs as adults and ESL
students. As such, faculty members who are supportive, caring and
have expertise in community, child studies and ES,L utilize
collaborative teaching approaches to get important points across.
Additionally, it is common for faculty members in the Community and
Child Studies training program to meet with students to discuss
progress, as needed. This serves to benefit students as engaging
professional and experienced faculty members may help them to
become comfortable in communicating and addressing people in both
casual and professional settings.
Secondly, an academic base is achieved through the development of
understanding of the personal and professional requirements of the
varied careers available in the community services and child studies
department. Assisting in this are Community and Child Studies
courses such as: Student Success and Interpersonal Skills (students
explore the resources available in the college to support their success
as a student in a post secondary environment. Close relationships with
these internal service areas are developed); Foundations in
Community and Child Studies (students survey the range of services
offered in the Community and Child Studies field and gain insight into
the scope of these delivery models); Professional Practice and Ethics
(introduces students to the characteristics of an effective professional

2. in the broad range of services represented in Community and Child
Studies field. Students explore how personal attitudes, values and
boundaries affect professional relationships), and more.
Applicants to this Community and Child Studies training are required
to have completed at minimum an Ontario Secondary School Diploma
(OSSD) or equivalent or be 19 years of age or older. Interested
parties should be advised that the program is only open for admission,
as an “alternate offer” to applicants who have been advised and
assisted to register by the Centennial College Assessment and
Advising Centre. Those applicants with scores of 130 or 131 are
recommended to begin this offering. Applicants cannot apply directly
to ontariocolleges.ca for admission to this program. Lastly, possession
of minimum admission requirements does not guarantee admission to
the Community and Child Studies training.
Author Details: As the author of this piece, Jason writes that the
Community and Child Studies courses at Centennial College are
designed for people who are new to Canada and wish to enter
professional life in the community services and child studies arena.