Graduate Stories

"This week I want to talk to you about scary grown up things most of us have to deal with while in college. Finding a balance between work, school and life, if there really is such a thing as balancing..."

"I have never been much of a writer, let alone a blogger but you will never succeed unless you try. So here we go this will be my first ever blog post. I want to share with you in this post why I chose..."

"It came to a point in my life where I needed to make a change in my career. Work was getting slow for me and I lost the overall enjoyment it gave me. I started thinking about what it is I truly wanted..."

"It has been forever since I have checked in. A lot has happened since my last blog. I finally completed my courses! At the moment I am on my fourth day of practicum. I am at a PHS site for 8 hours a d..."

"Hi all, Since last January, my cohort has been placed in Vancouver, so that we get a "feel” for the downtown atmosphere. We have had some unexpected surprises (I will get to that later), and also some..."

"Since we began this course, my cohort has had many different types of guest speakers. We have had elders come and talk about their experiences, we’ve had drug advocates, we have even had underground f..."

"Okay, this is a first. I am going to write about something not too related to the Program. I am going to talk about my path, my journey."

"From January of this year, every Wednesday my class has been placed in different locations in the Downtown East Side to do our field study practice. We switch every 6-8 weeks depending on whether it i..."

"Of the many diverse things that we learn in the CMHAW program, I see the guest speakers being the most important. We get to hear their stories and have them share their experiences. We have heard from..."