This is your last chance to back up your pre-Fall 2018 Blackboard courses. After April 9, 2021, courses older than September 2018 will be removed from Blackboard and no longer available. 

Humber College’s recently retired Vice President, Advancement & External Affairs, Alister Mathieson, is the author of five children’s books, including his newest book, Our Canada - A Year with Canuck Kids, written with co-authors Kelly Jackson, Associate Vice President, Government Relations, Marketing and Communications and Diane Simpson, Principal, Humber International Graduate School.

His other books include Canada: Our Road to Democracy; Canada: Our Home and Native Land; Grandma and Grandpa’s Toronto Adventure; and Are We There Yet?

Tomorrow is International Children’s Book Day, which is a great opportunity to gift your favorite little one with one of these books. Net proceeds from the sales are donated to The Blossom Fund.

Alister shared, “As an educator, I have always felt it important to maximize the opportunities for all students to have a comprehensive education irrespective of their own personal circumstances and challenges. The Blossom Fund provides specific funding assistance for students with disabilities and mental health challenges to ensure they have equal access and support to reach their educational potential." 

If you are interested in buying Our Canada - A Year with Canuck Kids, click here to purchase it on Amazon.

If you are interested in making a donation directly to The Blossom Fund, please click here.

For more information about Blossom Books Press, including the authors, illustrators and contributors, visit blossombookspress.com.

Questions? Contact Melissa in the Advancement and Alumni office at melissa.beauchamp@humber.ca.

The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) supports excellence across all four health research pillars: biomedical, clinical, health systems services, and population health.

CIHR invests approximately $1 billion each year to support health research. Learn about how CIHR’s grants and awards (G&A) expenditures were disbursed in 2019-20 here.

CIHR comprises 13 Institutes that set research priorities and support a broad spectrum of research in their respective areas. CIHR accepts applications for funding support that fall within its mandate, subject to agency policies and the specific requirements of the applicable funding opportunity.

For more information, please see the list of current funding opportunities.

To apply for funding opportunities at CIHR, you need:

• A ResearchNet Account
• A CIHR PIN
• A CCV Account

Linked here are detailed steps, from CIHR, in setting up your ResearchNet Account, CIHR PIN and CCV Account.

If you would like more guidance in setting up your account, please register here.  

Please contact Raeshelle M. Morris, Innovation Program Manager, Research & Innovation, at raeshelle.morris@humber.ca, if you have any additional questions.

The Resource Consultation Team at the Humber Child Development Centre consists of five resource consultants and one registered nurse consultant working under the Every Child Belongs (ECB) service model for the City of Toronto.

The team promotes the inclusion, growth, and development of children with extra support needs in licensed child care programs through individual, program and training consultations. The registered nurse consultant works specifically to support resource consultants that have children with medical needs on their caseloads.

During pre-COVID times, a consultant would complete observations in local child care programs, give strategies and recommendations, develop support plans, meet with families, facilitate trainings, create resources, connect with other professionals involved in the child's care (e.g. speech pathologists) and more.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all services provided by the team shifted to a virtual delivery format. During the child care closures, the team responded to the needs of the community by developing and facilitating virtual trainings, including infection prevention and control, self-care, communication skills, toilet training and more. The team also supported families through developing weekly tip sheets with at-home activity ideas based on the age of the children.

Despite the barriers experienced by the virtual delivery format, the team was able to support a total of 142 children and provided trainings to more than 2,300 participants, far exceeding the year-end target of 300.

In addition to supporting children an​d centres on caseload, the consultants supported more than 30 field placement students in Humber's Inclusive Resource Practice and Nursing programs.

The team is commended by their community for their adaptability and flexibility demonstrated throughout the pandemic.