Would you like to get creative, innovative and strategic ideas when planning for change in your organization? We invite you to partner with our College students! Student teams can provide a framework to launch, maintain and sustain the change while aligning with your company purpose and culture. For this change plan to be successful, we will require some information from you regarding the vision, values and mission of your organization. If you are looking for a foundation to plan, and to implement change within your organization, then this group of learners can create a plan to do so.

The Health and Human Services Management Post-Diploma Certificate program builds upon the student’s expertise from their health or human services diploma or degree and prepares them for leadership roles within an organization. Students from this program take business courses along with discipline-specific electives in preparation for leading and managing in the complex landscape of the helping professions. Partner with our students as they apply their disciplinary knowledge to address needs or challenges identified by your organization through a project, event, or activity. This collaboration provides your organization with innovative solutions and support while enriching the students’ education with practical experience. Service learning is augmented with 30-hours of classroom seminar time.  Highlights: We will work with you to help identify suitable projects.Students spend 45 hours meeting needs identified by your organization through a project, event, or activity.Two options: May-June (45 hours) OR May-August (45 hours)Service learning opportunities are offered to individual students or student groups.Students have supervising faculty to provide support, guidance, and opportunities for critical reflection throughout this experience.This is an unpaid experiential learning opportunity.Our students can:Provide your organization with innovative solutions and fresh perspectives on community-centered challenges.Create and/or participate in fundraising initiatives.Develop and facilitate employee training and community workshops.Develop community engagement strategies.Develop consumer or client information material.Assess workplace processes and practices and develop recommendations.

The Health and Human Services Management Post-Diploma Certificate program builds upon the student’s expertise from their health or human services diploma or degree and prepares them for leadership roles within an organization. Students from this program take business courses along with discipline-specific electives in preparation for leading and managing in the complex landscape of the helping professions. Our Applied Research Work Integrated Learning (WIL) Project bridges the gap between academic inquiry and real-world application with an applied research project. This allows you the opportunity to connect with students who can work with you in a project to suit your organization’s needs.Highlights: We will work with you to help identify suitable projects.Under supervision of a faculty member, students present a viable, evidence-based, practical response to an identified organizational need.Students work in small groups to conduct research, complete the research project work, and present their work and/or recommendations to you and/or your organization.Students divide their time between course curriculum and the applied research project for a total of 45 hours  (3 hours/week for 15 weeks) in the fall or winter terms.This is an unpaid experiential learning opportunity.Our students can:Provide your organization with innovative solutions and fresh perspectives on community-centered challenges.Create surveys for research.Participate in data analysis and collating information.Perform a literature review or needs analysis.Develop community engagement strategies.Assess workplace processes and practices and develop recommendations.

Do you have large amounts of data but no easy way to understand it? As organizations are able to collect an increasing amount of data on users and user activity, the need to visualize and present that data in a readable ways. For this project, student teams will work with a dataset provided by your organization to programmatically generating a visualization and presentation system and help you gain important insights.