Bachelor of Community Mental Health and Wellness (Honours)
Kitchener, Canada
Bachelor's degree
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: The Bachelor of Community Mental Health and Wellness (Honours) at Conestoga prepares you with knowledge, skills, and resources for careers beyond clinical settings. You’ll focus on prevention, promotion, and intervention using an equity-informed framework and varied perspectives. The programme blends theory with hands-on learning: simulations with standardized patients, case studies, community field placements and co-op.
Career Outcomes: Graduates are career-ready for workplace wellness, mental health support, community outreach, systems navigation, program development across social services, education, government, and corporate sectors. Typical roles include social and community service workers, mental health coordinators, case managers, wellness program developers and social-science professionals.
This program will prepare you with the knowledge, skills, and resources you need to be successful in a career in the evolving and progressive field of Community Mental Health and Wellness, as the need for mental health and wellness workers extends beyond clinical settings. This program is ideal for individuals who wish to focus on prevention, promotion, and intervention to support the mental health and wellness of individuals and communities using an equity-informed framework and multiple perspectives.
You'll learn how to develop evidence-informed services and programs that shape individual and community wellness. In addition to learning theory, you'll gain practical hands-on experience through real-world learning opportunities such as simulations with real-life practice scenarios and standardized patients, case studies, community field placements, and a paid Co-op work term.
This program will help you develop strong critical thinking, research, and professional communication skills that will enable you to make a difference in the wellness and mental health of communities.
Graduate career-ready for an opportunity in the areas of workplace wellness, mental health support, community outreach, systems navigation, and program development in a variety of sectors such as social services, education, government, and corporate.
Note:
Upon successful completion of the Human Services Foundation program (degree stream), students may apply to Conestoga's Bachelor of Community and Criminal Justice or Bachelor of Early Learning Program Development or Bachelor of Community Mental Health and Wellness degree programs.
Starting November 1, 2024, IRCC requires new study permit applicants to enroll in PGWP-aligned programs. Visit Conestoga's website for the list of programs.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) updated the list of eligible fields of study for the Post-Graduation Work Permit (PGWP).
For Conestoga's latest list of PGWP-aligned programs, please visit the college website.
Level 1
- Healthy People, Healthy Communities
- Conestoga 101
- Academic Communications
- Understanding Mental Health and Wellness
- Safety in the Workplace
- Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
- Social Determinants of Health and Wellness
Level 2
- Field Placement - Bachelor of Community Mental Health and Wellness Honours
- Fundamentals of Trauma
- Historical and Contemporary Mental Health Models and Services
- Supportive Counselling in Mental Health and Wellness
Level 3
- Interprofessional Practice in Mental Health and Wellness
- Trauma-Competent Care
- Mental Health, Wellness, and the Brain
- Treatments, Approaches and Therapies
- Understanding Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Social Justice
Level 4
- Community Development for Social Change
- Field Placement - Bachelor of Community Mental Health and Wellness Honours 2
- Enhanced Supportive Counselling in Mental Health and Wellness
- Decolonizing Approaches to Mental Health and Wellness
Level 5
- Co-op and Career Preparation
- A Population Focused Approach to Mental Health and Wellness
- Organizational Wellness for the Workplace
- Foundations of Addictions and the Continuum of Care
- Understanding Research
Level 6
- Field Placement - Bachelor of Community Mental Health and Wellness Honours 3
- Systems Navigation
- Program Development and Evaluation
- Expressive Arts: A Modality for Mental Health and Wellness
- Qualitative Research Methods
- Applied Statistics
Level 7
- Co-op Work Term I (Bachelor of Community Mental Health and Wellness)
Level 8
- Public Policy and Advocacy
- Principled Leadership in Mental Health and Wellness
- Mental Health: Promotion and Prevention
- Professional Research Internship
Level 9
- Self and Community Care Practices
- Mental Health and Wellness in the Sociopolitical Context
- Special Topics in Community Mental Health and Wellness
- Holistic Healing, the Environment, and Spirituality
- Professional Engagement: Research Knowledge and Mobilization
- Assess and create conditions for holistic, responsive, and evidence-informed practices for intervention, prevention, and promotion of community mental health and wellness.
- Analyze community mental health and wellness practices, services, and policies from multiple perspectives.
- Debate the influences of historically and socially constructed views of mental health on individuals, services, social policies, and legislation within socio-political contexts.
- Justify and implement principled decision-making, leadership, and commitments in ethical practice, through the lenses of anti-oppressive, decolonizing, and social justice perspectives.
- Evaluate effective engagement and information sharing techniques through collaborative, interprofessional, population-focused practice.
- Formulate effective critical thinking, problem-solving, and professional communication strategies for individual, community, organizational, and corporate practices.
- Conduct research to support the formation, implementation, and enhancement of programs and services across the lifespan.
- Appraise self-awareness and interpersonal communication by reflecting on personal attitudes, knowledge, and performance.
Financial assistance
The Ontario Student Assistance Program (OSAP) is a needs-based program designed to help eligible Ontario students cover the cost of post-secondary education. Funded by the federal and provincial governments, OSAP is intended to promote equality of opportunity for post-secondary studies through direct financial assistance (grants and loans) for educational costs and living expenses. The amount of funding you are eligible for depends on your program, course load, educational and living expenses, and financial situation. Apply for assistance on the OSAP website and visit OSAP & aid for more information.
Graduates will be career-ready in the areas of workplace wellness, mental health support, community outreach, systems navigation, and program development in a variety of sectors such as social services, education, government, and corporate. Graduates will be able to address the emerging mental health challenges across communities.
Our students can go into these careers:
- Social and Community Service Workers
- Other Professional Occupations in Social Science