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Child and Youth Care St. Clair College

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Advanced Diploma On-Campus Full-time 3 years September find out find out

Course overview

Graduates of the Child and Youth Care program engage with children, youth, and their families in their everyday lives, use a relational approach to developing therapeutic relationships and build on their strengths and capacities to promote optimal development and facilitate positive changes. Many of the children and youth receiving care, and their families, experience complex needs and challenges associated with multiple factors such as socioeconomic factors, systemic factors, mental health, trauma, cognition, learning, and/or developmental exceptionalities and/or involvement in the justice system.


Entry requirements

For Diploma, Degree and Graduate Certificate Programs

At St. Clair College all courses are taught in English and to be successful in a program, your English communication, listening, comprehension, reading and writing skills must be at a level to meet the demands of your program.

General diploma programs admission requirement for international students are as follows:

Canada & USA: High school diploma and transcript, or equivalent.

British education system: General Certificate of Education showing passes in six (6) academic subjects (including English) at the Ordinary level.

Caribbean countries (English): High school diploma and transcript, or equivalent.

Philippines: High school diploma (Grade 12) and transcript, or equivalent, or High School diploma (Grade 10) and a minimum of one year Post-Secondary education and Transcript.

West Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, etc.): WAEC (or NECO) transcript with online verifying scratch card number and PIN required.


Why study at St. Clair College

  • Affordable Tuition
  • Free On-Campus Housing for first semester
  • Practical learning experiences
  • #1 educator of nurses in Ontario
  • Industry Connections
  • Affordable Cost of Living

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