Social Service Worker Field Placement

Does your business focus on delivering services to individuals, families and communities? Bring on learners from Fanshawe College's Program of Social Service Work as they elevate their skills related to human behaviour, social problems and helping techniques. Learners will devote up to 300 hours over one term, practicing the skills they have learned in the classroom. Learners are expected to:Examine current social policy, relevant legislation, and political, social, historical, and/or economic systems and their impacts for individuals and communities when delivering services to the user/clientDevelop strategies and approaches that support individual clients, groups, families and communities in building the capacity for self-advocacy, while affirming their dignity and self-worthWork from an anti-oppressive, strengths-based practice, recognizing the capacity for resilience and growth of individuals and communities when responding to the diverse needs of marginalized or vulnerable populations to act as allies and advocatesWork with individuals, groups, families and their communities to ensure that service provider strategies promote social and economic justice, and challenge patterns of oppression, discrimination and harassment, and sexual violence with clients, coworkers and communities.Develop the capacity to work with the Indigenous individual, families, groups and communities while respecting their inherent rights to self-determine, and to identify and address systemic barriers that produce ill-effects, developing appropriate responses using approaches such as trauma informed care practice.

Data Analysis Research

Our research lab publishes dozens of papers every year to promote projects in our field of research. Among these papers are studies detailing our lab’s findings from data analysis.We would like to collaborate with students to analyze our raw datasets.This will involve several different steps for the students, including:Familiarizing themselves with our project’s objectives and analysis procedures.Checking for and correcting inconsistencies in the dataset.Calculating important results and plotting data in graphs and charts.Performing relevant statistical tests to determine the significance of results.Bonus steps in the process would also include:Recommending future areas of study.

Awareness Video Creation

Our organization is passionate about promoting social causes. We ​​want to increase awareness about a particular topic.We would like to collaborate with students to create an awareness video.This will involve several different steps for the students, including:Familiarizing themselves with the social cause, our mission and goals.Recording a presentation or screencast to raise awareness on the issue.Finding and applying suitable background music.Adding text, transitions, and overlays to the video.Bonus steps in the process would also include:Presenting the video and making edits based on feedback.Recommending ideas and editing tools for future awareness videos.