The Personal Support Worker program will prepare you with the knowledge and skills to provide compassionate care when assisting individuals with broad-spectrum conditions and health care needs. Your help will enable them to lead active and fulfilling lives in the community and institutions, both here and abroad.

A career as a Personal Support Worker takes heart, compassion, and a dedication to helping those most in need. It also takes a highly specialized set of dynamic technical and interpersonal skills. If you’re interested in a career that is personally satisfying, the PSW program will get you on your way to career success.

Learn how to become a caregiver in this free online course that explains how to make a difference in people’s lives.

The one-year Personal Support Worker Ontario College Certificate program, delivered over 28 weeks, prepares you for an in-demand career in the healthcare field. As a frontline care provider, you develop the ability to engage with persons and families of various ages and health-related needs to promote healthy living. Learn how to assist clients with their daily personal care needs, such as nutrition, bathing, dressing, toileting, and household management.

This free online course provides guidelines on medication metabolism, prescriptions and administration for caregivers.

This qualification reflects the role of workers in the community and/or residential setting who follow an individualised plan to provide person-centred support to people who may require support due to ageing, disability or some other reason.

Are you currently unemployed and passionate about enhancing the quality of life and dignity of Albertans through community and home caregiving? This is the right program for you! If you are currently unemployed, the Community and Home Care Worker Integrated Training Program will prepare you with the essential knowledge, skills, and hands-on experience to work with individuals requiring assisted living.

As a Pedagogical Assistant, you work with children, young people, or adults with special needs. They all need care and support from an educational angle. A Pedagogical Assistant can get a job in crèches, kindergartens, schools, and after-school clubs or as a daycare worker in their own home. You can also work with adults with disabilities in, for example, housing.

This program is ideal for developing a career in the aged and community care industry. It reflects the role of workers in the community and/or residential setting who follow an individualised plan to provide person-centred support to people who may require support due to an ageing, disability or some other reason.

The Applied Behaviour Analysis Training for Families and Caregivers is suitable for persons who face the day-to-day demands of managing behavioural challenges of individuals of varying ages, with intellectual disabilities, experiencing autism spectrum disorders (ASD), or general behavioural challenges.