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Support for Assistive Services in Health and Social Services Institutions

Upcoming Trainings

Chisasibi

Projected start: Fall 2025

Waswanipi (SRVTC)

Projected start: February, 2026
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Are you patient, caring, and helpful? Become a personal support worker or nurse’s aide!

Learn how to:

  • Provide care and assistance to people of all ages and conditions
  • Help people recover or maintain their autonomy

705 hours (full-time, 6 months)
47 credits
Diploma of Vocational Studies (DVS)

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Toll-Free 1-844-923-3347

Program Content

  • Analyze the occupation
  • Adopt relational approaches that encourage communication and collaboration
  • Prevent and control infections and contamination
  • Establish links between the client’s condition and needs, and the changes and interventions required
  • Adapt their approach to the client’s condition, behaviours or clinical reality
  • Provide personal assistive services related to activities of daily living in the context of long-term care
  • Adapt their approach and personal assistive services in the context of palliative and end-of-life care
  • Administer first aid and apply emergency measures
  • Intervene with clients experiencing a loss of autonomy in long-term care centres
  • Ascertain their limits with respect to administering medications and providing invasive assistive care related to activities of daily living
  • Perform tasks related to assistive services in the context of short-term and critical care
  • Provide assistive care to clients in short-term or critical care settings
  • Perform HSSA-related tasks in the context of home care
  • Enter the workforce in a long-term care centre, short-term care centre, critical care centre or in the context of home care

Do you have the prerequisites?

  • 18 years old
    and
  • Secondary III English + successful completion of the General Development Test

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How do I Apply?

1

Identify the courses or program you wish to take

Review your options and build a learning plan with the adult education guidance counsellor.

2

Bring documents to your local Adult Education Office

Bring your birth certificate, social insurance number, and school reports/transcripts to your local Adult Education office. If you are applying for a vocational program, please contact your Local Education Consultant for more details on necessary documents. Find my local adult education office.

3

Fill out an application

If you applied for General Education classes, welcome! You may be able to start immediately after submitting your application. If you applied for a Vocational Program, you will be contacted following the selection process.

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