Physical Health & Wellbeing Resources

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Here you will find a range of campus resources available at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU) to support your physical wellbeing, including your physical safety, nutrition, physical activity, and other ways to take care for your body.

Physical Activity & Sports

Recreation & Active Wellbeing

Recreation & Active Wellbeing at TMU offers fun and accessible ways to add movement into your routine. Whether you want to join a sports league, try a fitness class, or take a movement break, staying active can boost your wellbeing, focus, and connection with others.

Cycling to Campus: Beginners' Guide

Explore the Cycling to Campus Beginners' Guide for practical tips, safe cycling routes to campus, bike parking information, and safety guidelines. This resource makes it easy to get started with cycling as a convenient, sustainable way to travel.

Bike Share Toronto

A program helping the community reduce their carbon footprint, with several docks located near the TMU campus. TMU students, staff, and faculty can save 20% on an annual membership.

Campus Medical Supports

Medical Centre

Health appointments for all current TMU students, staff, and faculty, including services such as physicals, mental health assessments, assessments for common medical problems, immunizations, and medical certificates.

Vaccination Clinic

TMU hosts a series of pop-up Flu Vaccine Clinics for all TMU community members. Visit the webpage to view upcoming dates and locations.

Health & Dental Plan: Undergraduate Students

The mystudentplan provides health, prescriptions, dental, and mental health care, plus additional benefits for eligible undergraduate students. This plan is provided by the Toronto Metropolitan Students’ Union (TMSU).

Health & Dental Plan: Graduate Students

The mystudentplan provides health, prescriptions, dental, and mental health care, plus additional benefits for eligible graduate students. This plan is provided by the Toronto Metropolitan Graduate Students’ Union (TMGSU), which represents graduate students at TMU.

Health & Dental Plan: Part-Time Students

The Toronto Metropolitan Association of Part-Time Students (TMAPS) provides a health and dental plan for part-time students through Green Shield Canada (GSC).

Green Shield Health Assist: Continuing Education Students

As a recent or current member of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), Continuing Education students at G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education can purchase personal insurance coverage through one of the two extended health and/or benefit plans offered by GSC: Health Assist Link or Health Assist Zone.

University Health Insurance Plan (UHIP)

UHIP provides medical coverage for all International students (including undergraduate, graduate, and exchange students) studying in Ontario with a valid study permit. The plan provides medical coverage comparable to OHIP for services such as seeing a doctor, hospital stays and treatment, exams, and emergency services.

Food Access & Security

Free Food Locator

In an effort to help eliminate food waste and fight food insecurity, the Free Food Locator can help you find free food left over from events on campus.

Good Food Centre

A centre that aims to help students facing any level of food insecurity through partnerships with community resources.

Oakham Cafe & The Met Campus Pub

The Oakham Cafe and Met Campus Pub are two on-campus spaces for students, faculty, and staff to enjoy affordable food and drinks. These spaces are run by the Palin Foundation & The Toronto Metropolitan University Student Centre.

TMU Eats

TMU Eats (Food Services) is dedicated to helping fight food insecurity at TMU by instituting initiatives throughout the academic year to bring food security options to the TMU community.

Learn To Cook

Learn to Cook workshops are the perfect way to strengthen your food literacy, build your food skills and learn tasty new recipes to enhance your confidence in the kitchen! An offering through the 'Learn to' program within Recreation and Active Wellbeing.

Urban Farm

The Urban Farm operates two rooftop farms on campus to produce and distribute food, facilitate research, and engage the community through ecological rooftop farming and food justice initiatives.

Indigenous Foodways - Urban Farm

The Indigenous Foodways program aims to promote Indigenous wisdom and traditional agricultural practices through knowledge exchange and community engagement.

Black Food Sovereignty Initiatives - Urban Farm

Black Food Sovereignty Initiatives aim to engage Black students, faculty, staff, and the broader community through the sharing of food from farm to table, and challenge systemic racism through Black-centric programming, training, and food cultivation.

Sexual Health, Education & Violence Support

Centre for Safer Sex and Sexual Violence Support (C3SVS)

Free and confidential peer support for survivors of sexual violence and their supporters, as well as products to lessen the impacts of period poverty and eliminate financial barriers to having safer sex.

Consent Comes First (CCF)

Confidential, trauma-informed support for TMU students affected by sexual or gender-based violence.

Centre for Student Development and Counselling (CSDC)

Professional counsellors at the CSDC provide trauma-informed and trauma-specific care for students seeking to address the impacts of sexual and gender-based violence.

General Physical Health & Wellbeing

Office of Student Care

The Office of Student Care can help you access resources and holistic support following any challenges you may experience while you study. Student Care also works with the TMU community to identify students in distress and address disruptive student behaviour.