Start Date: September 8, 2026 (full-time status)
Virtual Asynchronous

Application Deadline: August 18, 2026

Program Length: One year (two semesters)

Credential: Ontario College Certificate

Program Partner: Canadore College

About the Program:
Kenjgewin Teg’s Personal Support Worker (PSW) program prepares you to provide compassionate, client-centred care in community and institutional settings. Guided by experienced professionals, you’ll gain the skills to support individuals with physical, cognitive, emotional, and behavioural needs. Graduates earn an Ontario College Certificate and are ready for rewarding careers in long-term care, community care, hospice care, and more.

Your Future Career:

  • Long-term care facilities
  • Community/Home Care
  • Hospitals
  • Hospice

You Will Learn:

  • Nutritional menu planning
  • Clinical and community care
    (hospital and long-term)
  • Simulation and lab work
  • Diseases and pharmacology
  • Patient/client home care

Semester 1

CMM 125 – Communication Fundamentals
PSW 185 – Professional Issues
PSW 152 – Client, Family, and Community
PSW 180 – Biology for PSWs
PSY 200 – Lifespan Development

Semester 2

PSW 205 – Mental Health
CLT 100 – Canada’s First Peoples
PSW 137 – Numeracy, Aging, and Palliative Care
PSW 162 – Lab I
PSW 210 – Lab II (Simulation Lab)
PSW 230 – Clinical
PSW 300 – Consolidation

Additional Training Provided: 

  • First Aid and CPR
  • Mask fit testing
  • Gentle Persuasive Approaches (GPA)

Other Certificate Requirements:

  • TB Testing
  • Hepatitis B Immunization
  • CPIC/VSS- required before admissions and before clinical
  • COVID Immunization

Admission Requirements:
OSSD or equivalent, ENG 4C or ENG 4U

If English is not your first language, an English competency test may be required.

https://www.canadorecollege.ca/support/admissions/english-language-proficiency-requirements

 

Connect with Your Program Coordinator:
Your program coordinator is here to support you every step of the way—both in the classroom and beyond.

Rebecca Wright
Health and Wellness Program Coordinator
705-370-4342 ext 258
RebeccaWright@kenjgewinteg.ca

Every attempt is made to ensure the accuracy of information provided in this fact sheet with our valued post-secondary partners. Kenjgewin Teg and its partners reserve the right to modify any course, program, curriculum, fee, timetable or location at any time. As a community-based delivery program with its partner, this program offering is subject to approved funding and sufficient enrolment.