Diploma in Recreation Therapy, Canadore College - Commerce Court Campus

Recreation Therapy at Canadore College is a two-year Ontario College Diploma program designed to prepare students for a rewarding career in health-centered fields. The program focuses on assessment, planning, and delivering programs that improve the quality of life for individuals with illness or disabilities. Available onsite or online, the course emphasizes clinical and community-based settings such as long-term care facilities, hospitals, children’s treatment centers, and mental health centers. Students will gain skills in program design, assessment, documentation, leisure education, facilitation techniques, and adaptive recreation. The program includes a mandatory 350 hours of applied work experience which allows students to apply their classroom learning to real-world scenarios.