Certified Wellness Coach

What is a Wellness Coach?

There is an urgent need to support the mental health needs of California’s children and youth. Certified Wellness Coaches provide care to young people through prevention and early intervention services. These services support overall physical, emotional, and mental well-being.

Becoming a Certified Wellness Coach (CWC) lets you play a role in improving the mental health and well-being of children and youth in California. Discover your path to certification today.

 

Work in settings including:Work with professionals such as:
  • Community organizations
  • Health centers and clinics
  • K–12 schools
  • College settings and more
  • School psychologists
  • Counselors
  • Social workers
  • Health & wellness staff, and more

 

How to Become a Certified Wellness Coach

There are two pathways to becoming a Certified Wellness Coach I: the Education Pathway and the Workforce Pathway. Both pathways combine completion of a qualifying associate degree at SRJC with the required fieldwork experience. Upon meeting the degree and service hour requirements, students can become Certified Wellness Coach I (CWC I) through HCAI.

See requirements for each pathway outlined below. 

The Education Pathway

This is for students pursuing one of the following Associate Degrees from SRJC — or who have obtained one of the following degrees within the past 6 years — and completed the qualifying fieldwork services hours as outlined below.

Qualifying Degrees 

  • AA-T Social Work & Human Services
  • AA Social Work & Human Services
  • AA-T Psychology

 

Service Hours Required - Complete a minimum of 150 hours of qualified fieldwork experience. 

Our Social Work & Human Services pathways are recommended by HCAI because it includes Certified Wellness Coach core competencies and a fieldwork experience course (SWHS 86).

 

The Workforce Pathway

This is for people who have experience providing direct pre-clinical behavioral health services to children and youth through age 25 in school-linked/school-based organizations, non-profits, community organizations, and/or health centers/clinics within the last six years. 

Qualifying Degrees 

  • Any Associates Degree

Service Hours Required - Complete a minimum of 1350 hours of qualified Social Work & Human Services fieldwork experience.


Next Steps:

Are you a recent graduate with an associate or bachelor’s degree in human services, social work, addiction studies, or psychology within the last six years?

  1. Meet Requirements for Education Pathway
  2. Apply for Certification
  3. Receive Certification
  4. Enter Workforce as a Certified Wellness Coach

 

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