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Student Wellbeing offers a wide range of health, wellness, and academic support designed to serve the TMU community. Over the past year, through meaningful consultations and collaborations with students, faculty, and staff, we have continued to build on our vision and mission, strengthening our commitment and strategic priorities that will guide our ongoing work. Discover the progress, milestones, and positive impacts the Student Wellbeing teams made throughout the 2024-25 academic year.
Message from the Executive Director
It is my pleasure to introduce the second edition of our Student Wellbeing Impact Report. A massive shout out to every member of the Student Wellbeing team who works tirelessly on behalf of our students and our community, day in and day out. You bring to life our aspiration to cultivate student wellbeing within TMU and our surrounding communities and for this I am tremendously thankful.
This year we had much to celebrate yet again:
Breaking Ground on the New Student Wellbeing Centre
We marked the official groundbreaking for a new Student Wellbeing Centre. This facility will not only centralize wellbeing, accessibility, and other supports, but will also fundamentally transform how we organize and deliver care in partnership with our students. Exciting planning is underway as we prepare for this move.
Launch of Wellbeing Central
Wellbeing Central, an integrated online hub, successfully launched for the Fall semester. Thanks to a Bell Let's Talk Grant, this solution was prioritized based on years of feedback for a single, central location for all TMU wellbeing resources. This initiative is a prime example of our team collaborating to solve a longstanding, system-level issue and meet the community’s needs.
Expanding Upstream and Transitional Support Programs
We continued to innovate our services to meet student demand for more upstream programs that promote health.
• The expansion of our Peer-to-Peer Mental Health program, supported by the McCall McBain Foundation, offers a crucial early entry point into our system of care.
• The Return to Campus Care program is a vital pathway supporting students returning after a mental-health-related hospitalization. This demonstrates our commitment to providing tangible benefits and working with community partners to assist students in need.
Bolstering Accessibility and Holistic Disability Support
We are evolving our services with an approach rooted in accessibility and the social determinants of health. This was amplified by generous funding through the RBC Foundation. This support will allow us to bolster and expand programming across the student life cycle, including:
• Easing students’ transitions into university.
• Sustaining support throughout their academic career.
• Preparing them for entering the workforce.
This initiative will be an exciting opportunity to continue contributing to our students' holistic wellbeing and academic success through collaborative, partnered programming.
Thank you all again for your work on behalf of our students, and I wish you all the best in the coming school year!
Allan MacDonald, Executive Director, Student Wellbeing
Who We Are
Our Mission
We foster TMU student and community wellbeing through high quality health and accessibility services, health and education system leadership and authentic partnerships and collaboration.
Strategic Priorities
Equitable and inclusive access to care and education
Collaborate with community partners inside and outside of TMU to ensure we live up to our commitment to an approach steeped in health equity, accessibility, and inclusion, that honours our students’ voice and lived experience.
Connect health and wellbeing to learning
Inextricably align health and wellbeing supports, services and programming to learning processes and outcomes, student development, and academic success.
Co-create an integrated student health and wellbeing experience
Balance integrated upstream and downstream support services and community engagement strategies as we enable student and community wellbeing across campus and in our local communities.
Drive health and education system innovation in partnership with our students
Lead and support system level innovation to better meet the needs of our students and local communities, as we partner with the downtown east Toronto neighbourhood, Brampton, and beyond to enable better access to effective health and wellbeing care and inclusive educational experiences for post secondary students.
Student Wellbeing Health Equity Commitment Statement
- We are committed to understanding that students are experts in their own experiences, and to working collaboratively with them, the TMU community, our neighbours in downtown Toronto and our partners in other communities to cultivate wellbeing.
- We are actively committed to acknowledging and reducing health disparities, and to co-creating structures and practices with our students and community members that recognize and address health inequities.
- We are devoted to adopting a comprehensive, trauma-informed and systemic approach to care that considers the whole person, and that is rooted in accessibility and an understanding of the social determinants of health.
- We are committed to taking responsibility for making positive change in the lives of students and the community, and will take direct and ongoing action to address ableism, attitudinal barriers, anti-Asian racism, anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-2SLGBTQIA+ discrimination, and other forms of racism and oppression.
- We are committed to learning, unlearning and supporting one another as members of Student Wellbeing as we embrace bringing about positive change in the lives of students and the community through our work.
Community Impacts
Student Wellbeing consists of three areas: Academic Accommodation Support, Student Integrated Health and Wellbeing and Community Wellbeing. These teams offer events, programming and resources to support the health, wellbeing and academic success of students, faculty and staff. See the impact they’ve made this year on the TMU community.
