Category: Student Support, Well-being & Access 2022

In the past, universities embraced a model where parents were discouraged from being involved in their child’s life as a university student. Over the past fifteen years, this belief has started to evolve and the University of Toronto has acknowledged how…

In an effort to provide more culturally adaptive counselling for students, Health and Wellness has established evidence-based, skills-building group therapies for anxiety and low or depressed mood.  These groups are specifically designed with BIPOC students in mind, but are open…

The Healthy U Crew made an effort to reach out and partner with other peer groups at U of T.  Their goal was to work with teams who already have trusting relationships with students. One such partnership was with the Centre…

5 Ways to Wellbeing is a tri-campus program that teaches participants how to use simple, evidence-based actions in a variety of ways to promote positive mental health and well-being while practicing physical distancing and managing new stressors related to COVID-19. 

Navi is U of T’s student mental health wayfinding virtual assistant (chatbot).  The development of the tool coincided with findings from U of T’s Presidential & Provostial Task Force on Student Mental Health, which found that while there are supports…