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Fall 2024 Continuing Education Programs

July 24, 2024

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Looking for new skills, new careers, and new credentials and professional development opportunities this Fall?

Laurier Continuing Education is here to help you shape your future with expert-led educational programming offered across the universities’ multiple campuses. Explore all our Fall courses and programs. Easily register online and get started today!

Office of Continuing Education (OCE) programs

Mental Health Skills for Educators Micro-Credential (starts Sep. 9)

While 1.2 million students in Ontario will face mental health challenges, less than one-third will seek professional help. Schools play a critical role in Ontario’s mental health care system for children and youth. Research shows that supporting mental health through increased literacy, wellness promotion, and early intervention promotes student success while reducing the need for more intensive supports.

Developed in partnership with the Laurier Continuing Education and the Faculty of Education, this series of six micro-credentials provides educators and related professionals with the skills and understanding to respond, support and appropriately refer students who may be struggling with mental health issues.

Start today with a free intro module! Earn your Youth Mental Health Certificate by early 2025.

Learn more about these micro-credentials

Canadian Risk Management (CRM) Certificate and Designation (starts Sep. 10)

The world is getting riskier. Learn to manage it! Identify, analyze, assess, and control exposure to risk to help your organization tailor their strategies and operations. This three-course program starts in the fall with CRM54: Risk Management Principles and Practices.

Earn a CRM Certificate from Laurier, which will allow you to earn a Canadian Risk Management (CRM) designation from the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS) - a widely recognized professional risk management qualification.

Learn more about CRM Certificate

Laurier Lifelong Learning Fall Lecture Series (starts September)

The Laurier Lifelong Learning lecture series (formerly Laurier Association for Lifelong Learning) has a new round of 12 lectures available. This series is open to all!

Join Laurier researchers, faculty and community members in a dozen 90-minute low-cost lectures hosted at Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex. Join the lifelong learning list to be the first to know when lectures are announced!

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Faculty of Human and Social Sciences Laurier Brantford Centre for Professional Development programs

The FHSS Centre for Professional Development offers courses and workshops for working professionals in government municipalities and other organizations.

Gladue Principles: Indigenous Peoples and the Canadian Criminal Justice System (Part 1 starts Sep. 1 and Oct. 1)

The Canadian Criminal Code requires additional factors to be considered when sentencing Indigenous offenders.

This online certificate takes a comprehensive look at Canadian Criminal Code Gladue Section 718.2(e) and Gladue Principles of justice from a historical, contemporary, practical and critical lens.

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Foundational Skills for Government Report Writing workshop (starts Oct. - Date TBD)

Are you looking to ensure your staff’s report writing skills meet the needs of your Council, committee, board or taskforce, and the public?

Whether you need an introduction to report writing, or, are already a seasoned writer looking to approach report writing through a writing lens, this workshop will level up your skills.

Explore this course

Centre for Public Safety and Well-Being (CPSW) programs

The Centre for Public Safety and Well-Being is offering exciting learning opportunities for people working or aspiring to work in a wide range of industries, including public safety, health, wellness and well-being.

Police and Public Safety Supervisor Certificate (starts Sep. 12)

Built in collaboration with Brantford Police Services and developed by police experts, this course examines the many aspects of the role of supervision and leadership, and how they impact the delivery of effective public safety services.

Learners will assess their current leadership attributes and learn how to enhance competency in key police supervision areas.

Note: This program has been designed for current, acting and aspiring police and public safety supervisors. CPSW recommend participants have 2+ years of police and/or public safety experience before registering for the certificate.

Explore Police and Supervisor Certificate

Positive Psychology Certificate (starts Sep. 23)

The Positive Psychology Certificate explores evidence-based best practices, supports positive mental health and well-being in workplaces, educational settings and enhances personal growth and resilience.

Learners working in HR roles, Education, Social Work, Management and virtually any employment field can benefit from the insights in this program.

Explore the Positive Psychology Program

Situation Table Training (Free) (open all year-round)

This free course is designed for police services and community partners. Move through the Situation Table four-filter process and learn the considerations for implementing Situation Tables in your area.

The training modules utilize case studies, activities and quizzes to help you engage with the content and to apply and assess what you have learned.

Centre for Indigegogy programs

Standing for “Indigenous Pedagogy,” Indigegogy is a specialized term that refers to a journey of relational learning centered on land-based education and Indigenous knowledge, literature and scholarship. It represents a decolonizing practice that builds on the resurgence of Indigenous ways of knowing, teaching and learning.

The Centre for Indigegogy offers thirty-five (35) modules per year, spanning four certificates, including four standalone wholistic professional development courses to decolonize social work, education and organizations.

In addition, the Centre offers customized trainings with organizations across Turtle Island.

Decolonizing Education Certificate (starts Sep. 19)

This certificate builds capacity among educators and anyone interested in responding to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's (TRC) calls for action in a meaningful way.

This certificate covers an array of topics from pre-contact to colonial contact. The topics will help people understand and appreciate Indigenous perspectives in decolonizing education and understand one's position in solidarity with Indigenous peoples.

Explore courses in Decolonizing Education Certificate

Wholistic Healing Practices and Colonial Trauma Certificate (starts Sep. 27)

Are you an Indigenous or non-Indigenous practitioner working with Indigenous Peoples? Are you interested in practicing from a wholistic lens? Are you interested in what it means to decolonize and Indigenize trauma work in the context of the politics of colonialism?

This certificate will give practitioners and helpers the knowledge and skills to decolonize their practice while also offering wholistic healing practices.

Learn more about Wholistic Healing

Indigenous Re-Search Series – Indigenous Research Paradigms (Workshop on Oct. 25 & 26)

This two-day workshop will widen your lens to inspire and ground you in understanding Indigenous research.

This session will transform your perspective in how they understand the role and place of Indigenous knowledge in a research journey. Participants will leave with an appreciation and increased understanding of what “re-search” is and how one might engage in re-search.

This is the first of three modules in the Centre for Indigegogy Re-Seach Series.

Learn more about Indigenous research

Faculty of Social Work Professional Development Program

The Faculty of Social Work Professional Development program includes more than 250 continuing education courses per year, providing professionals in the social services sector opportunities to update their knowledge and learn new skills.

All courses are led by highly qualified and knowledgeable instructors with considerable experience in their areas of expertise. Explore upcoming non-credit certificates:

New this Fall

The Advanced DBT certificate is designed for seasoned practitioners already engaging in DBT practice and looking to deepen their clinical expertise. The program serves to strengthen the foundational aspects of DBT and explore the latest research and best practices in applying DBT across a spectrum of populations and disorders.

The Applied Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practice certificate is being offered in partnership with Red Maple Coaching and Consulting. Based on the idea that we are composed of multiple subpersonalities, or “parts”, IFS is considered to be a non-pathologizing, holistic and empowering approach that emphasizes the client’s innate capacity for self-leadership and healing. The Applied IFS Practice courses offer an exciting journey of learning how to understand each client as a unique and complex system, with whom you act as a witness to healing.

More information and all links to register for these programs can be found on the Laurier Continuing Education website. We wish you all the luck in your Fall learning and hope to see you in an upcoming program soon.