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Elder Advocate Certificate (EAC)

Type: Career, Certificate (C1)

Open Admissions

Division: Human Services


This program provides a basic credential to those working in the field of aging without previous academic training or credentials. The one-year certificate program leads directly into the two-year Human Services Practitioner Associate Degree program.

Students interested in participating in an academic program that involves working with children, the disabled, or the elderly, or which includes a clinical affiliation, internship, or field placement with a private or public healthcare provider, may be required to undergo criminal background checks, including a national as well as local check (i.e. Massachusetts Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) and Sex Offender Record Information (SORI)). Depending on the contents of these criminal background check(s), a student's participation in an academic program that involves working with children, the disabled, or the elderly or which includes a clinical affiliation, internship or field placement with a private or public healthcare provider may not be allowed, and therefore may impact a student's ability to complete program requirements. Furthermore, please note that eligibility to participate in the program and/or clinical affiliation, internship or field placement as a result of screening requirements, such as criminal background checks, is not a guarantee of eligibility to sit for professional credentialing examination(s) or employment upon graduation.

If you have questions related to program admissions or applications, please contact info@northshore.edu or call 978-762-4188.

 

 

First Year

Fall

CMP101Composition 1

3
HUS101The Human Services Worker

3
HUS130Life Changes and Crisis: Adaptation and Intervention

3
LA-ELECTIVELiberal Arts Elective

3
PSY112Introduction to Gerontology

3
Total Credit Hours:15

Spring

HUS102Helping Skills in Human Services

3
HUS137Field Placement & Seminar 1 for Human Services Practitioner

3
HUS107Nutritional and Health Aspects of Aging

3
HUS201Advocacy for Elders

3
Total Credit Hours:12
Program Notes
Communication and Mathematics proficiency required to graduate.
See guided pathway sheets for advising information specific to your area of focus.

Total Credit Hours: 27


Program Student Learner Outcomes
  • Establish positive therapeutic relationships with elders and their families that promote constructive change.
  • Demonstrate an understanding of cultural competence; provide ethical and culturally sensitive care.
  • Develop and utilize a variety of conflict resolution and problem solving techniques in a variety of environments with elders and their families.
  • Identify, evaluate and utilize effective verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills.
  • Identify factors associated with crisis prevention and intervention when working with elders.
  • Engage in ongoing self-assessment and self care to maintain attentiveness to professional competence.
  • Utilize a strength based, resilience and humanistic perspective.

Occupational Skills required
  • Active listening
  • Empathy
  • Intercultural competency
  • Actively seeking to help people
  • Social perceptiveness
  • Oral communication
  • Documentation
  • Ethical decision making
  • Critical thinking
  • Judgment and decision making

Experiential Learning Required in Program
  • HUS 137 Field Placement & Seminar 1 for Human Services Practitioner

Experiential Learning Optional in Program
  • HUS 130 Life Changes and Crisis: Adaptation and Intervention

Most Common Linked Occupation Title – All Education Levels
  • Counselor and Case Manager

Most Common Linked Occupation Title – Associate’s or Less
  • Social and Human Service Assistants