In alignment with Humber’s strategic priority of preparing students to be career-ready citizens and providing opportunities for work integrated learning, CIHW has engaged with several partners on joint research projects. These collaborative research initiatives will provide learning opportunities for Humber students and benefit those in and beyond the Humber community.
Healthy Campus
CIHW is committed to building and sustaining a healthy and inclusive community at Humber. In alignment with the Okanagan Charter and Humber’s own strategic priority, CIHW collaborates with campus health partners on several projects to improve the overall wellness of Humber’s community. These projects include Healthy Breaks@Humber and Mindfulness@Humber.
Healthy Breaks@Humber is a wellness program that allows Humber faculty and staff to book stretch or mindfulness breaks for their classes and meetings. These breaks promote health and wellness for students, faculty and staff at Humber.
Mindfulness@Humber includes both in-person and virtual guided meditation sessions, scheduled at various times throughout the week. Students, staff and faculty can attend sessions as they fit with their schedule and are provided with a 20 – 30 minute mindfulness meditation to help refresh and rejuvenate during the workday.
Both the above initiatives are led by students, for students and with students as part of peer learning on health and wellness.
Community Connection and Partnerships
One of the key goals of CIHW is to establish strong and sustainable industry and community partnerships. CIHW actively engages with industry partners to build new relationships and create collaboration opportunities. These opportunities include, but are not limited to student internships, health and wellness training for community healthcare workers, co-designing events and conferences and applied research projects.
Check out some of our community projects and partnerships. If you are interested in participating in or would like more information on a project or partnership, please contact cihw@humber.ca.
Opportunities
Applied Research: CIHW ‘s key areas of focus include - health equity, mental health and youth, prevention and management of chronic diseases, aging and community health and wellness. See a few of our success stories from the past year below. Connect with us if you are a business or community organization and interested in applied research in the above listed areas.
Community Partnerships and Collaboration: CIHW actively engages with industry and community partners for new, innovative and futuristic ideas on enhancing community health and wellness. Connect with us if you are looking for a Humber collaboration or partnership at cihw@humber.ca.
Mindfulness@Humber
CIHW offers virtual and in-person guided mindfulness meditation sessions to all members of the Humber community (staff, faculty, and students) throughout the semester. Participants can register for any session(s), choosing either in-person or online. For more information, please email cihw@humber.ca.
Faculty and staff can book 10-minute stretch or mindfulness breaks for their classes and meetings. These breaks are led by Humber students and are a perfect way to bring calmness and reduce anxiety during a busy workday. For more information, please email cihw@humber.ca.
In the winter term each year, CIHW offers a free Wellness Coaching Program to front line health care workers in community health organizations. Led by the students in Humber's Wellness Coaching Graduate Program and using a strengths-based and non-judgmental approach, Wellness coaches support individuals with identification and implementation of specific goals related to physical, social, mental, emotional or relational wellness.
If you are a community health organization and would like to provide this program to your staff, contact us.
The skills and mindsets that allow our graduates to succeed make up the Humber Learning Outcomes. These HLOs transform learning experiences by preparing our graduates to navigate the world with intention.
Collectively, our actions ripple outward to lead positive change.
HLOs
Learning Outcomes from Participating in CIHW Opportunities
Collaboration
Innovation
Systems Thinking
The CIHW is part of Humber's Centres of Innovation Network
The Centre for Innovation in Health & Wellness is part of Humber’s Centres of Innovation (COI) Network. This network consists of five Centres of Innovation and provides access to several other resources that can benefit businesses. Each COI is focused on a key area of Humber’s proven strength and industry growth, including Technology Innovation, Creative Business Innovation, Innovation in Health and Wellness, Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation. Read the Impact Report for an overview of the five COIs initiatives and success with students, faculty and industry and community partners.
Sign up and get on the COI Network Resource Database for the opportunity to participate in COI projects and get notified first about COI news and events. Have an idea? Pitch it to the experts! This is your opportunity to not just succeed, but to exceed!
