Mission Statement  

To provide career-related education and training that will enable our students to succeed in the global economy. 

The mission of the Seneca College Personal Support Worker Certificate Program is to create an environment that emulates the caring foundations for Personal Support Workers.  We aspire to promote learning, creativity, and innovation so that our students will have the knowledge, skill, and attitude necessary to provide excellent, client-centred care.  We aspire to prepare graduates that respect the lived experience of people in diverse settings and use the caring relationship to assist clients in achieving their best physical, emotional and spiritual health goals. We expect that students and faculty will be partners in the education process.  

Our Purpose 

To develop and provide programs and educational services that are: 

• Relevant and enriching to our student's work and lives

• Focused on the workplace opportunities of the future

• Practical, interactive, and flexible in time and place

• Supported by academic standards

• Integrated with information technology

• Designed to combine technical and transferable skills

• Reinforced by opportunities for ongoing education and retraining

• Enhanced by supportive student services

Our Commitment

• First and foremost, our commitment is to our students, who are the central focus of our mission.

• We value and respond to our diverse and multicultural community.

• We work and learn together with cooperation, honesty, mutual respect, and equity.

• We act both locally and globally, building strategic partnerships and international initiatives.

• We provide quality service and strive to do things right the first time.

• We foster an entrepreneurial, innovative, empowering, and creative work environment.

• We embrace change, adapt effectively and rapidly to new circumstances, and actively pursue new opportunities.

• We are competent, qualified, knowledgeable, and accountable for our assigned responsibilities.

• We take responsibility for our continuing professional development and employability.

• We assure our financial viability through the effective and efficient use of our resources.