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  1. congrats!! Still feeling ever hopeful ❤️ although i think i'm quite settled with trying again next year. I'm going to take the fast-track social worker/community worker diplomas at george brown and then also apply to advanced standing BSW +MSW next year. Finger crossed. Congrats on everyone getting in this year tho!
  2. Hi there! I'm wondering if any folks who applied to social work diploma programs in Toronto or to the one-year HBSW at Lakehead would be open to discussing with me their rationale and experiences? I'm thinking that it might be better for me to reapply to these programs next year and hopefully the MSW after that! Thank you!
  3. so i'm looking into psychotherapy training programs - not through yorkville but through other experiential programs in Toronto - in particular the Centre for Training in Psychotherapy (CTP). The CTP is a 6 year PART-TIME program, with the first 2 years being theoretical and the last 4 years being practical (i.e. in the 3rd year you enter a pre-clinical phase and in the last 4, 5 and 6th years you have actual clients to counsel and it's all supervised). The program has requires you go through your own therapy throughout the program and participate in intensive group therapy sessions with your peers. I've heard great things about the program and i also appreciate their approach to admissions - it's incredibly holistic and also resource intensive on their end (before even applying you have to have an interview with the faculty, and after submitting in your application you're interviewed 2 more times). The program will NOT allow you to be a social worker or register with social worker bodies because it is not a social work program, as it is a psychotherapy training program. After completion you have the required hours and qualification to register with the CRPO (College of registered psychotherapists Of Ontario) and practice as a psychotherapist. This program is ideal if your main priority and goal is to be a counselor/psychotherapist rather than a social worker with broader competencies. While social workers who are registered (RSW) can call themselves psychotherapist and can practice as psychotherapists, social workers need to obtain the minimum hours of supervised clients to qualify. Many MSW programs including the very clinical ones (I.e UOFT) will not give you enough hours to register after you are done, so you'll need to get a job/position counselling clients while being supervised. Of course this is possible is done by MANY social workers! The reality is if you primarily want to be a psychotherapist - 2 years of MSW won't be enough to qualify you for that. PROS/CONS: if you want to practice in other areas that are privy to social workers, this degree won't enable you to do that (at least for now. Qualifications are changing all the time and the practice of psychotherapy is becoming more accredited - giving it more legitimacy); its a 6 year program (pros and cons) as it's part time and meant for you to be able to work and attend to your other relational needs outside of the program. Also caveat* in order to apply to this program you'll need to have undergone 80 hours of individual psychodynamic therapy. --------
  4. Thank you! I'm still hopeful but I'm also realistic it might have to be something for next year. fingers crossed!
  5. Thanks for your response! This was helpful. Unfortunately i couldn't get a reference from the distress centre because i had to move to Ottawa 3 months short of fulfilling their 1-year commitment. I am moving back in June though and will be started up my volunteerism with them again. I'm also going to look into other community volunteer opportunities. Fingers crossed for next year if i don't end up getting in this year.
  6. First off @asingh25 congrats!!! York is my top choice so i'm hoping to hear back definitely have very little hope but your post gives me *some* hope! Do you mind if i ask what your experience and background is? It'll help me greatly when i reapply next year. Also, i would love to talk to any folks who applied to yorks 1 year BSW program (didn't realize they had one!) as i might consider applying for that next year as well. Thank you!!
  7. PS. Mailed York's admission. This was their response. I'm personally not expecting to get in because even though I have a strong academic background in social justice studies and sociology and a Masters in public health, much of my experience is in research. i do have experience at the Crisis centre but not much front-line work apart from that
  8. Honestly, I haven't been to either programs either and I am an applicant for UofT but if i lived in BC i would 100% go to UBOC rather than UofT. I actually have an MPH from uoft and did my undergrad there and can attest that it is a very institutionalized/corporate environment. My undergrad was critical because it was in inequities study and sociology but my MPH really felt like a haphazardly throne together program - and its supposedly one of the best MPH programs in the country. I think UofT definitely coasts on its' namesake and connections to larger institutions (i.e. hospitals) that enable it to offer a wider array of practicum options.... Is it obvious i have a bit of a vendetta against the school? ?
  9. Opps meant to quote you! Congrats and your message gvies me a lot of hope!
  10. your post makes me super hopeful!
  11. ah! congrats to all re: UofT, my acorn hasn't beeen updated yet and feeling sort of blue :(, but still holding out!
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