The Chemical Dependency Counseling program is designed to provide students with the knowledge, professional values, and skillset required to begin the certification process for and work in California Chemical Dependency treatment settings. It also provides opportunities for general knowledge about addiction, and chemical dependency treatment. This program leads to an AA in Chemical Dependency Counseling, and a Certificate of Achievement in Chemical Dependency Counseling which is fully accredited by the California Association of Alcohol and Drug Educators (CAADE) and is available to students who meet the graduate requirements and complete required courses.
A fully accredited California Association for Drug and Alcohol Educators(CAADE) Certificate of Achievement in Chemical Dependency Counseling will be awarded upon the satisfactory completion of the 36 unit curriculum listed below with a 2.0 GPA or higher in each course.
Completion of the Gerontology Program will provide the holder with the skills, knowledge, and education necessary to work with the elderly. It also provides training and growth opportunities for existing human service employees. In addition, this Skills Recognition Award in Gerontology will serve as another step in an educational and career ladder leading to a Human Services Skills Recognition Award, certificate and or degree. All course work will be applicable as electives and/or meet the requirements for the Human Services degrees at MJC.
The Human Services AA Degree centers around a broad array of entry-level knowledge and skill building needed to effectively work in social services delivery systems. Our program also prepares individuals for transfer to four-year universities, in an effort to pursue degrees in human services, psychology, social work, counseling, sociology, and addiction counseling or other related majors.
The Human Services certificate centers around a broad array of entry-level knowledge and skill building needed to effectively work in social services delivery systems.
The Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) Program comes from the emerging need in the human services field to recruit and hire qualified persons to provide services for people who have mental health problems, including consumers and family members as employees in the mental health system. Completion of the Psychosocial Rehabilitation Program will provide the Skills Recognition older with a core curriculum of essential skills necessary for jobs in the human services field and provide the nine units of college credit necessary to sit for the national test-based certification exam, enabling people to become Certified Psychosocial Rehabilitation Practitioners. This core set of courses not only provides a basic education for people entering the human services profession but also provides training and growth opportunities for existing human service employees. In addition, this Skills Recognition will serve as another step in an educational and career ladder leading to a Human Services Skills Recognition and/or Degree. All coursework will be applicable as electives and/or meet the requirements for the Human Services Degree at MJC.
