Human Services
Animal Assisted Wellness Jobs and Careers
Location
Online
Credential
Certificate
Program Length
Varies/30 credits
Additional qualifications from the animal assisted wellness certificate provides human services professionals another tool for working with people in all walks of life and all types of care settings.
Typically animal wellness skills are helpful for:
- educational and teaching assistants
- early childhood educators
- child and youth care counsellors
- psychologists
- occupational therapists
- speech and language therapists
- nurses
- teachers
- psychiatrists
- addiction counsellors
- first responder
Those skills can be put to work in:
- day and child care centres, day homes
- pre-schools
- kindergarten through secondary school
- higher education
- hospitals and other care centres
- counselling services in the public and private sector
- emergency and victim services