Your Curriculum
Mental Health/Human Service Youth Worker (2008-2009)*
(Restricted Entry, Certificate Program)
*Information regarding the requirements for this Restricted Entry program is available by accessing the Admission Requirements page.
MHCC Faculty Advisors:
Dr. Ann Bonner: 503-491-7425 - Room AC 2771 Ann.Bonner@mhcc.edu
Leslie Allen: 503-491-7178 - Room AC 2765 Leslie.Allen@mhcc.edu
Kathleen Hannigan-McNamara: 503-491-7403 - Room AC 2774 Kathleen.Hannigan-McNamara@mhcc.edu
The Youth Worker Certificate program is designed for people who have a high school diploma, associate degree, or bachelor degree and want to work with youth. A one-year sequence of courses, it is designed to prepare the entry-level youth worker for employment in youth serving agencies. Course work is theory and experiential-based.
The certificate can be completed in one year by attending classes during the day or a combination of day and evening/weekend courses. Students may elect to attend part time. Students may also elect to take selected courses from the certificate program listing.
Students who complete this certificate may work in community justice programs, addictions, residential care, and in some recreational and community facilities.
Students interested in this program must apply for and be accepted into the Mental Health/Human Service program. Within the application materials, applicants need to designate the Youth Worker Certificate as their major. Students can obtain the application materials on our web site at www.mhcc.edu/LRadmissions.
All coursework (47 credits) can be applied toward the Associate of Applied Science Degree in Mental Health/Human Services. Students who complete this certificate program have the option of continuing their course work toward the Associate Degree of Applied Science in Mental Health/Human Service. In such a case, the student would need to change their major to Mental Health/Human Service in order to register for core classes.
Please check the MHCC website for any curricular changes that have
occurred since the catalog was published.
| First Quarter |
Cr |
| HS101 |
Introduction to Human Services |
3 |
| HS111 |
Interviewing Skills I |
2 |
| HE207 |
Stress Control - Activity Intervention |
1 |
| PSY235 |
Human Development I: Infancy-Adolescence |
3 |
| WR121 |
English Composition |
3 |
| 12 |
| Second Quarter |
|
| HS112 |
Interviewing Skills II |
2 |
| HS141 |
Pharmacology of Psychoactive Substances1 |
3 |
| HS150 |
The Effective Helper, A Personal Skills Approach |
3 |
| |
Related Elective |
2-3 |
|
10-11 |
| Third Quarter |
|
| HS113 |
Interviewing Skills III: Cross Cultural |
3 |
| HS291 |
Practicum Seminar |
2 |
| HE208 |
AIDS and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections |
1 |
| WE280HS_ |
Cooperative Education Internship |
4 |
| MTH65 |
Beginning Algebra II2‡ |
4 |
| 14 |
| Fourth Quarter |
|
| HS291 |
Practicum Seminar 2 |
2 |
| PSY225 |
Group Counseling: Theory and Practice I |
3 |
| WE280HS_ |
Cooperative Education Internship |
4 |
| |
Related Elective |
1-3 |
| 10-12 |
| Related Electives |
|
| CJA230 |
Juvenile Crime and the Juvenile Justice Process (F) |
3 |
| HDFS224 |
Abuse in the Family (W) |
3 |
| E261 |
CPR - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (Su/F/W/Sp) |
1 |
| HS154 |
Juvenile Risk Assessment1 (F) |
1 |
| HS157 |
Gangs1 (F) |
1 |
| PSY222 |
Diagnosis and Treatment: Clinical Disorders 1(W)
|
2 |
1Courses open to professionals in the human services field. Students must apply for college admission as a general studies major at www.mhcc.edu/admissions.
2 Students may not use demonstrated proficiency on the College Placement Test (CPT) to satisfy this requirement.
‡See pages 7-10 of the printed catalog.
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