Equity Diversity Inclusion for Social Workers Course Online: 3.5 Social Work CPD Hours

Anti-Oppression, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion is a practical, self-paced CPD course for social workers and social service workers across Canada. Required-topic course: anti-oppressive practice, human rights law, ableism, ageism, classism, gender and sexual diversity, race and advocacy. It has nine narrated lessons and a 36-question final exam. Built to align with Canadian social work regulators’ CPD requirements for self-directed learning. Every course gives you what you submit for your CPD record: a certificate with your name, the provider, course title, completion date and CPD hours, plus the course outline, learning outcomes and your exam result.

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Anti-Oppression, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at a glance

What you will learn in this equity diversity inclusion for social workers course

• Explain social justice as a core value in the Code of Ethics.
• Define oppression and describe its forms.
• Describe the Charter, the federal Act and provincial codes.
• Explain the difference between equality and equity.
• Describe ableism, ageism and classism and how they appear in services.
• Describe how sexism and gender based violence affect people and services.
• Describe how anti Black racism, anti Asian racism, Islamophobia and antisemitism show up in Canada.
• Describe levels of advocacy: case, program, policy and community.
• Apply anti oppressive and equity thinking to mixed cases.

Equity Diversity Inclusion for Social Workers course curriculum: nine lessons built around real situations

Short narrated lessons with worked examples and practice pauses, each closing with a knowledge check. Slides and a transcript are included for every lesson.

Equity Diversity Inclusion for Social Workers course: 3.5 online CPD hours for Canadian social workers

The course counts as 3.5 instructional hours. Complete every lesson, pass the final exam, download your certificate, and enter the activity in your regulator’s CPD record yourself. Keep the certificate and your notes as evidence. This is a required-topic course: several regulators ask for ethics, Indigenous learning, cultural safety or equity, diversity and inclusion hours. See the requirements by province page to check where it fits.

Built to align with Canadian social work regulators’ CPD requirements for self-directed learning. Every course gives you what you submit for your CPD record: a certificate with your name, the provider, course title, completion date and CPD hours, plus the course outline, learning outcomes and your exam result.

The complete pack gives you all 18 courses and 54 CPD hours with a certificate for each, for $299 CAD. Bought one at a time they would cost $702.

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