A Specialist High Skills Major allows you to focus on a career area that interests you while you earn your high school diploma. No matter what education you plan to pursue after high school—apprenticeship, college, university or workplace training—a non-profit major can help you focus on a future career.
A Specialist High Skills Major in non-profit offers:
- High school courses in Grades 11 and 12 tailored to the career you want to pursue
- Four major credits providing skills and knowledge in the non-profit sector
- One English credit and other credits tailored to include units focused on non-profit
- Two cooperative education credits to gain workplace experience that enables students to refine, extend and practise sector-specific knowledge and skills
- Sector-recognized certifications and/or training courses/programs (four compulsory and a choice of two electives)
- Experiential learning and career exploration activities within the sector
- Reach ahead experiences connected with the student’s postsecondary plans
- Completion of a Sector-Partner Experience (SPE)
Sector-Recognized certification and training
As part of the non-profit major, you will earn six certifications, including the following three that are compulsory:
- Standard first aid
- CPR, level A
- Hazardous materials – Workplace Hazardous Materials Information Systems (WHMIS)
Future career paths for non-profit majors
- Apprenticeship – event planner, policy analyst
- College – fundraising manager, counsellor
- University – international aid worker, NGO program administrator
- Entry-level workplace – fundraiser
Get more information
Call the guidance department at the following school that offers the program: