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Elevate your impact in the community without pausing your career. Designed for professionals in helping professions and public safety, this two-semester Addictions and Mental Health Graduate Certificate delivers advanced, practical skills to support diverse populations and lead collaborative care.

Key Highlights

• Built for Working Professionals: Flexible hybrid delivery (online and in-person) with classes scheduled two evenings a week and one-to-two weekends per semester.
• Interprofessional Collaboration: Learn how health, social services, and public safety teams work together to deliver integrated, high-quality public care.
• Culturally Responsive and Inclusive Practice: Master client-centered strategies that prioritize cultural safety, equity, and trauma-informed support across diverse communities.
• Specialized Care Expertise: Develop targeted tools and interventions for exceptional populations, including individuals with neurocognitive and developmental disorders.
• Real World Applied Learning: Put theory into practice during your final semester through advanced simulations, case studies, and a seven-week field placement or workplace-aligned applied project using harm reduction and recovery-oriented approaches.

Gain Real-World Experience

In the final semester, you will integrate theory with practice. Through collaborative learning in Fleming’s simulation spaces and through case studies, students will practice addressing professional issues and ethical dilemmas all through the lens of client-centred care.

A concurrent seven-week, part-time field placement with a community agency or an applied project will allow you to integrate and practice mental health and addictions theory and treatment strategies. Emphasis will be placed on using harm reduction strategies, recovery-oriented practice, trauma-informed interventions, and effective case management. Working professionals already employed in sector-related work may wish to consider an applied project that supports their existing employment.
 

Learning Outcomes

• Examine the determinants of mental health and addiction issues to support clients in their care and well-being.
• Provide non-biased, culturally relevant mental health and addiction interventions to make services more accessible for under-represented populations.
• Assess care needs using a variety of approaches including indigenous perspectives, to develop evidence-based recovery plans.
• Present various mental health and addictions topics and approaches, based on research, to inform and build resilience with individuals, families, groups, and community members.
• Engage with and advocate for at-risk clients using an inclusive and anti-oppressive approach to support their goals.
• Work collaboratively within an interprofessional framework to provide evidence-based ethical and coordinated holistic services.
• Make ethical and responsible decisions that adhere to policies and legislation within one's scope of work.
• Implement and monitor ongoing recovery plans with the client, the client's support network, and/or community care providers to ensure continuity of care.
• Develop and apply self-reflective practices and self-evaluation techniques to assess areas for personal well-being and professional development.
• Support workplace and client safety using harm reduction practices and critical incident management techniques.