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Advanced College Diploma Child and Youth Care

3 Years On Campus Diploma Program

Algonquin College Ottawa

Program Overview

This three-year Ontario College Advanced Diploma program prepares students to develop and implement a wide range of prevention, intervention and treatment strategies to facilitate positive change in children, youth and their families. Using a concurrent delivery model, this unique program allows students to apply theoretical concepts of healthy development, therapeutic programming, child and youth care interventions and counselling in their field placement experiences. During the program, students complete four terms of field placement which is supported through coursework, tailor-made seminar classes and comprehensive onsite supervision.

Program Key Stats

$14900 (Annual cost)



88 %

Eligibility Criteria


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Additional Information & Requirements

Official transcripts, Ontario Secondary School Diploma (OSSD) or equivalent or Academic and Career Entrance (ACE) certificate or General Educational Development (GED) certificate, English: Grade 12 or equivalent with a grade of 70% or higher, IELTS-6.5, TOEFL-IBT: 88 (with the minimum of 22 in each component: Reading 22; Listening: 22; Speaking: 22; Writing: 22), The physical and emotional health of each applicant to the program must be such that he or she can successfully cope with the program of instruction including the demands of field placement (e.g. stress and time management).

Career Options

  • Graduates may secure employment in an ever-increasing range of settings that promote optimal development of children
  • youth and their families
  • As part of an inter-professional team
  • child and youth care practitioners are front-line professionals in residential care facilities
  • mental health treatment centres
  • shelters
  • school programs
  • therapeutic foster care environments
  • community-based services/resource centres and youth justice services

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