16 projects incubated, 5+ awards, an article in MacLeans, 10 community partners, 4 academic presentations/publications articles, and 5 institutional partners reflect our team’s passion. The stories of those we’ve supported reflect our true impact.
Monthly Dignity, the winner of a 2019 Forces Avenir Award, is combating period poverty by providing menstrual hygiene products to menstruators in precarious situations across Montreal. They work with companies to divert period products that aren’t being sold from the landfill to shelters and other community partners. They’ve diverted almost 200,000 period products to ~20 community partners across Montreal.
Art for Elderly organizes free art sessions for elderly Chinese populations. We create art educational videos with French and English language instruction components catered towards immigrant populations. Our goals are to decrease social isolation Our efforts are geared towards promoting mental health in a vulnerable population that is now even more vulnerable due to COVID.
Collaboration Interprofessionnelle Montréalaise Étudiante (CIME), the winner of a 2020 Forces Avenir Award, is eliminating healthcare gaps for asylum seekers in Montréal through health promotion workshops, health navigation consultations and student screening clinics.
SYBS aims to advance diversity in McGill’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences by offering a mentorship program to encourage Black high school students to consider careers in healthcare and workshops to provide Black youth with hands-on experience in health sciences.
Art for Elderly organizes free art sessions for elderly Chinese populations. We create art educational videos with French and English language instruction components catered towards immigrant populations. Our goals are to decrease social isolation by 1) providing a platform that like-minded individuals can socialize in, 2) help individuals develop new skills/hobbies, and 3) provide language instruction to help integration into the community. Our efforts are geared towards promoting mental health in a vulnerable population that is now even more vulnerable due to COVID.
This team of Occupational Therapy students developed an activity booklet with instructions for socially-distant and meaningful fitness, recreational, and arts and crafts activities and a monthly activity schedule for women in difficulty and their children sheltered at Logifem during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.
McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.