Your Curriculum

Mental Health/Human Service Youth Worker
Restricted Entry
Certificate Program

Catalog Year 2013-2014* 

*Information regarding the requirements for this Restricted Entry program is available by accessing the Admission Requirements page.

MHCC Faculty Advisers:
Leslie Allen: 503-491-7178 - Room AC 2765
Leslie.Allen@mhcc.edu 

Dr. Ann Bonner: 503-491-7425 - Room AC 2771
Ann.Bonner@mhcc.edu 

Kathleen Hannigan-McNamara: 503-491-7403 - Room AC 2774
Kathleen.Hannigan-McNamara@mhcc.edu 

The Youth Worker certificate program is designed for people who have a high school diploma, associate degree or bachelor degree and want to work with youth. A one-year sequence of courses, it is designed to prepare the entry-level youth worker for employment in youth serving agencies. Course work is theory and experiential-based.

The certificate can be completed in one year by attending classes during the day or a combination of day and evening/weekend courses. Students may elect to attend part time. Students may also elect to take selected courses from the certificate program listing.

Students who complete this certificate may work in community justice programs, addictions, residential care and in some recreational and community facilities.

Program Outcomes
At the completion of this program, students should be able to:

• Demonstrate the values and ethics that are intrinsic to the human services profession
• Demonstrate professional interviewing skills
• Demonstrate writing skills appropriate to clinical documentation

Students interested in this program must apply for and be accepted into the Mental Health/Human Service program. Within the application materials, applicants need to designate the Youth Worker Certificate as their major. Students can obtain the application materials on our website at www.mhcc.edu/LRadmissions. Once you have read the application packet, if you have questions, please call 503-491-7256.

All coursework (47 credits) can be applied toward the Associate of Applied Science degree in Mental Health/Human Services. Students who complete this certificate program have the option of continuing their course work toward the Associate of Applied Science degree in Mental Health/Human Service. In such a case, the student would need to change his or her major to Mental Health/Human Service in order to register for core classes.

For program costs, completions and job placement information, please click here.

Please check the MHCC website for any curricular changes that have occurred since the catalog was published.

¹Courses open to professionals in the human services field. Students must apply for college admission as a general studies major at www.mhcc.edu/admissions.
² Students may not use demonstrated proficiency on the College Placement Test (CPT) to satisfy this requirement.

‡See pages 20 of the printed catalog.

Program Web Link: www.mhcc.edu/MentalHealth