Fundamentals for the Homelessness Serving Sector | Micro-Credentials

This micro-credential provides an introduction to approaches and ideas that support individuals experiencing homelessness to train for a career in the trades and human services.

Students will learn about current models, including volunteer models, vocational employment programs, and day-ready approaches to engage people with complex needs. Students will explore innovative concepts and promising practices that can be implemented as strategies to support people experiencing homelessness in their community. Students will learn and apply concepts of intersectionality, anti-oppressive practice, and housing first principles throughout the micro-credential. These analyses will assist the student to be able to identify, advocate for and implement appropriate supports and services for unhoused individuals, as well as to determine, develop, and implement services to meet needs and to address gaps in their community.

Badge Earning Criteria:

Successfully completed 10 hours of self-paced learning activities, assignments, and assessments.

Admission Prerequisites:

None.

Skills Acquired Through Completing this Micro-Credential:

• By the end of this micro-credential, students will be able to:
• Discuss micro-credential content through key terms and core concepts in ending homelessness.
• Identify and discuss key principles and structures of vocational programs within the trades targeted toward People with Lived and Living Experience (PLLE).
• Relate case studies to the development of innovative ideas in Northern communities (Examples: Hummingbird, Help Seeker, Brave and Talking Stick).
• Identify key principles of impactful vocational programs within the trades that connect individuals
  with living/lived experience of homelessness with employment.

Cost: $175.00 /  10 Hours / 5 Weeks

Registration

To apply, please complete the online registration form.

This micro-credential explores how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), mobile applications, and digital platforms, can improve systems of care, while promoting autonomy, dignity, and choice for individuals experiencing or transitioning out of homelessness.

With a focus on inclusive, community-led, and ethical innovation, students will evaluate digital tools that support recovery, housing access, daily living, and accessibility. Drawing on frameworks such as Housing First, trauma-informed care, harm reduction, intersectionality, and anti-oppressive practice, students will learn to assess opportunities and risks within digital interventions. The micro-credential includes Canadian case studies, emphasizing Northern, Indigenous, and underserved communities.

Badge Earning Criteria:

Successfully completed 10 hours of self-paced learning activities, assignments, and assessments.

Admission Prerequisites:

None

Skills Acquired Through Completing this Micro-Credential:

By the end of this micro-credential, students will be able to:

• Identify key terms and core concepts in homelessness.
• Apply current data, rates of homelessness, and emerging trends when considering homelessness.
• Identify the primary purpose of point-in-time (P.I.T) counts.
• Explain key differences between equity and equality as it relates to housing.
• Identify different tech-based tools that would benefit community as it relates to homelessness.
• Differentiate the “Tiny Home Ownership” movement from Tiny Homes as solutions to the housing and homelessness crisis.
• Relate current data and rates of homelessness to the importance of community supports.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to apply community-based planning strategies to develop a project framework.

Cost: $175.00 /  10 Hours / 5 Weeks

Registration

To apply, please complete the online registration form.

This micro-credential explores new technologies that enable innovative approaches and strategies to help communities support people experiencing homelessness.

This micro-credential provides an introduction to innovative approaches and ideas that leverage technology to help communities support people experiencing homelessness. Students will learn about and discuss current models; including mobile applications used in overdose prevention, crisis response, and housing placement. Students will explore innovative concepts and promising practices that can be implemented as part of strategies to support people experiencing homelessness in their own community. Students will learn and apply concepts of intersectionality, anti-oppressive practice, and housing first principles to the application of technology. These analyses will assist the student to be able to identify, advocate for, and implement appropriate supports and services for unhoused people, as well as to determine, develop, and implement services to meet needs and address gaps in their community.

Badge Earning Criteria:

Successfully completed 10 hours of self-paced learning activities, assignments, and assessments.

Admission Prerequisites:

None.

Skills Acquired Through Completing this Micro-credential:

By the end of this micro-credential, students will be able to:

• Discuss key terms and core concepts in ending homelessness.
• Relate current data, rates of homelessness, reports, strategies to the homelessness situation in their own communities.
• Identify and discuss existing and innovative tech models to support ending homelessness.
• Explain how mobile applications fit within the continuum of existing programs to ending homelessness.
• Explain the integration of the key principles for working with people experiencing homelessness (trauma informed, housing first, harm reduction, etc.) into public facing applications (hummingbird, etc.) and apply concepts of intersectionality, anti-oppressive practice, and housing first principles into the application of technology.
• Relate case studies to the development of innovative ideas in Northern communities (Examples: Hummingbird, Help Seeker, Brave and Talking Stick).
• Identify the steps required to implement a technology-based project in their community.

Cost: $175.00 /  10 Hours / 5 Weeks

Registration

To apply, please complete the online registration form.

This micro-credential explores how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), mobile applications, and digital platforms, can improve systems of care while promoting autonomy, dignity, and choice for individuals experiencing or transitioning out of homelessness.

This micro-credential focuses on inclusive, community-led, and ethical innovation. Students will evaluate digital tools that support recovery, housing access, daily living, and accessibility. Drawing on frameworks such as Housing First, trauma-informed care, harm reduction, intersectionality, and anti-oppressive practice, students will learn to assess opportunities and risks within digital interventions. The micro-credential includes Canadian case studies, emphasizing Northern, Indigenous, and underserved communities.

Badge Earning Criteria:

Successfully completed 10 hours of self-paced learning activities, assignments, and assessments.

Admission Prerequisites:

None.

Skills Acquired Through Completing this Micro-Credential:

By the end of this micro-credential, students will be able to:

• Identify key terms and core concepts in ending homelessness
• Relate current data, rates of homelessness, reports, and strategies to the homelessness situation in their own communities.
• Identify and discuss the existing and innovative tiny home models.
• Explain how tiny home models and programs connect to ending homelessness.
• Identify common municipal processes and by-laws important for success.
• Identify the steps required to implement a tiny home mod

Cost: $175.00 /  10 Hours / 5 Weeks

Registration

To apply, please complete the online registration form.