Cert in Community and Child Studies Foundations is a certificate in Social & Cultural Studies programme offered by Centennial College in Toronto, Canada. The programme runs for 2 semesters, delivered on campus. Teaching is in English. Tuition for international students is CAD 18,005 per total (CAD 2,775 per total for local students).
The certificate provides an academic pathway into community services or child studies careers, building understanding of the personal and professional requirements across the field's varied roles. Through reflective practice, students develop professional skills and communication competence across all language strands, along with academic habits intended to support success in their chosen diploma programme. The curriculum includes eight hours of English study each week and a peer mentoring component, and graduates earn two transfer credits toward diploma programmes in community and child studies.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: This certificate requires an Ontario Secondary School Diploma or equivalent, or mature-applicant status at 19 or older, plus Grade 12 English at the C or U level, or equivalent, or Centennial's own English Admission Test. The page notes that applicants to Centennial's community-studies or child-and-family-studies programs who score 140 or 141 on Centennial's English Skills Assessment are advised to take this program first, as a pathway into their program of choice. The program page defers its general English-proficiency standard to Centennial's institution-wide requirement, which for certificate and diploma programs sets IELTS Academic 6.0 with no band below 5.5, TOEFL iBT 67, and PTE Academic 51. No minimum admission GPA is published. The availability table currently lists only a Winter 2027 (January) intake.
Application Details
Start Date:Winter 2027 only
Application Deadline:Centennial publishes no application deadline for this program; what follows is the Ontario college cycle that governs it. Domestic applicants apply through ontariocolleges.ca: for a program starting in Fall 2027 the equal-consideration date is 1 February 2027, and applications arriving after it are still assessed, but first-come first-served while places remain. Across the Ontario college system the application opened on 26 September 2026, offers may be issued from 1 November 2026, and an offer must be accepted by 1 May 2027. One $150 fee covers up to five program choices. International applicants apply directly to Centennial through its own international application process and are assessed on a rolling basis across the Fall, Winter and Summer intakes; the college publishes no fixed international closing date. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.