Core Courses
The following courses can be taken individually or as a pathway to the credential.
SFW0064 - Client-Centered Counseling for Behavior Change
In this course, participants will explore how client-centered, strengths-based approaches are key to delivering effective, evidence-based interventions across various service fields. By integrating motivational interviewing techniques, they will learn to enhance clients’ intrinsic motivation for change, address ambivalence and foster collaborative strategies that lead to meaningful, lasting behavior change.
SFW0066 - Creating a Safe Environment: Trauma-Informed Care and Self-Care Practices
This course empowers you with the skills to engage clients through a trauma-informed lens, ensuring that your interactions foster safety, trust and healing. You’ll also learn essential strategies for managing stress—both your own and your clients’—while prioritizing self-care and personal safety, especially during home visits, to ensure a secure and supportive environment for all.
SFW0067 - Pursuing Cultural Understanding
This course explores the impact of culture on both individual workers and organizations. Participants will examine diversity, disparities and implicit bias, learning how to build stronger relationships and provide culturally responsive services.
SFW0065 - Professionalism & Strengths-based Practice
This course explores the professional and ethical issues facing human services professionals. Participants are introduced to the ethical standards for human services professionals that guide the professional practice of human services. Common ethical challenges, such as confidentiality, informed consent and self-disclosure are emphasized.
SFW0068 - Systems Approaches & Advocacy
This course equips human service professionals with the skills to apply systems thinking for greater effectiveness within organizations and communities. By adopting a holistic perspective, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the interconnectedness of complex systems, enhancing their ability to drive meaningful change. This approach strengthens community practice competencies and maximizes the impact of interventions.
SFW0069 - Strengths-based Assessments & Measuring Progress
In this course, participants will look at the strengths-based approach to assessments, goal planning and measuring progress. At this stage, participants will apply strengths-based skills—active listening, powerful questioning and effective interviewing—to assess client resources, set goals and track progress.
