information on becoming a councillor?

Question

i live in the niagara region of ontario canada and i would like to know if anyone knows of colleges in teh area tht i could take courses to become a councillor.....for either children or married couples.....anything you could tell me about the course would be great to!! even if you can do the courses online! i thank you very much for all your help in advance and truely appriciate anything you could tell me or advise me on. thank you!!!!!!!!!

OOPS, SORRY...I DID MEAN COUNSELLOR......GEEZ, SORRY THAT I DIDN'T CATCH THAT.

Answer 1

Don't you mean a counsellor?

There are social work courses at some colleges, but there are also volunteer crisis centres that require no additional education to join

Answer 2

More specialised decision making structures mean councillors are expected to perform a range of different roles, such as; licencing and regulatory decision making, policy overview & scrutiny, executive decision making, political leadership, determining planning applications and community representation.

Councillors also play a wider role in providing community leadership. Enabling communities to help themselves and providing a vital link between the local authority and the communities which they serve. Non executive councillors now have more time to focus on improving the communities which they serve, and play more of a role in developing policy and recommending to the Executive, decisions to be made and holding them to account publicly for their decisions, through the scrutiny process, which provides a platform for real issues which effect communities. Issues which can be raised by fellow councillors and members of the public alike, and for in depth work to be carried out into those issues. A councillor’s role is now one of influence rather than that of power, influencing the decision makers and holding them to account as well as influencing the key stakeholders within their wards. Councillors have a mandate now to lead and identify opportunities for change in a wide range of subjects which effect the communities in which we live, to identify skills and resources within communities and to bring them together for the greater good, this, along with greater emphasis in local government over partnership working with health, police and fire authorities.