PART-TIME
LEARNING

I graduated last year in AMHW PROGRAM as one of the pioneer students. Currently, I am working as a full time at Salvation Army Toronto Harbour Light Addiction Rehab. Recovery Treatment as an Addiction floor Counsellor and a registered member of the college of social workers and social service workers. With the need to explore more knowledge in the addiction field, I enrolled in this program. Before enrolment; my mindset was divided if I could take this course as a full-time worker and being a father of two kids. I gave it a try since it was based online teaching with flexibility as the course is asynchronous which means I could do it at my own timeline. My trial proved me right as I was able to do the online course at my own space, while still working as a full-time counsellor in the addiction field. My Professor, Denise Halsey is remarkably awesome and amazing, who delivered online teaching through a process you could navigate easily; with a web-based and clear understanding of the course materials. In addition, I gained some thoughtful knowledge in many forms of harm reduction-related to medication-assisted treatments: methadone maintenance and heroin-assisted treatment; needle exchange and supervised injection; harm reduction approaches for alcohol. This is very useful in my career as I am correctly working with Adults on methadone maintenance treatment as a way of managing their withdrawal symptoms. Most of them were opioids dependency who was open for change and are in my treatment facility. — Philip Ikhuoria, Withdrawal Management Graduate, 2019