Are you a student, staff, or faculty member at Lakeshore Campus and want free Fairtrade coffee and snacks?

Come join us on November 1, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at WEL second floor Student Life Lounge. Learn about what Fairtrade is and where your coffee and other goods come from, while connecting with our Humber community. Of course, bring your own reusable coffee mug!

Mental Health Training for Students, Student Leaders, and Student Staff 

Student Wellness and Equitable Learning is offering training for learners on how to understand mental health and recognize when a peer needs support. 

The Well-being at Humber: Be There for Yourself and Others is an interactive 90-minute training with case studies and strategies and part of the college's efforts to raise awareness of learner mental health. Learners will receive CCR recognition for completing the training. 

Fall 2023 Workshop Dates 

Online:

• Thursday, October 5 - 12 p.m to 1:30 p.m. 
• Wednesday, November 22 - 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. 

Lakeshore Campus:

• Thursday, November 2 - 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (B307) 
• Monday, November 20 - 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (C108) 

North Campus:

• Monday, October 16 - 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (D239) 
• Tuesday, October 31 - 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. (H407) 

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The workshop is also available on request. Departments, managers, and program coordinators supervising learners can submit a request for training.

Contact

Ewnet Demisse, Health Promotion Specialist, ewnet.demisse@humber.ca 
Estefania Toledo, Inclusive Curriculum and Well-being Specialist, estefania.toledo@humber.ca

The Wellness Series, hosted by the Principal's Office, returns on Tuesday, October 31 with keynote speaker Brandi Leifso. She will share her story of resilience and social impact. We welcome Humber staff and faculty to join us for a talk on the power of choice in relation to mental health, and how we can create a life of purpose, achievement, and positive impact.

All attendees will be entered into a raffle for a chance to win a special prize pack.  

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Details

The event will also be livestreamed. A link will be shared via email with those who register closer for the event.

Speaker Bio

Brandi Leifso is an award-winning social impact entrepreneur. At 21, Leifso was living in a domestic violence shelter when she founded Evio Beauty Group Ltd., an impact-led clean beauty brand on a mission to break stigmas with inclusive, good-for-you beauty products. Evio joined strategic alliances with some of the world’s most recognized industry leaders and multi-national retailers such as Shoppers Drug Mart.

A Chatelaine magazine’s Women of the Year alum, Leifso is an advocate for domestic violence reform. To date, her company has donated more than $510,000 worth of products and funding to 27+ shelters across Canada that support survivors of domestic violence. Leifso has spoken around the world to bring awareness to domestic violence, including Forbes Under 30’s first-ever global women summit in Israel and was recognized as one of Canada’s Top 25 Women of Influence and received an Independent Retail Ambassador of the Year Award from the Retail Council of Canada.

Wondering about how to be an effective ally/accomplice? In this session, participants will be prompted to intentionally reflect on their own lived experiences as they consider how to shape their allyship practice.

Facilitators, Christine Hsu (they/them) and Jessie Florio (she/her + they/them), will explore what it means to effectively practice allyship and introduce critical concepts of accompliceship. This includes the need to unpack the allyship industrial complex and share their own personal practices across the Canadian and global landscape. They will share their experiences in regards to showing up in solidarity for people and communities that they aspire to be allies for, including the times they have failed and how they moved through the experience with their own accountability practice. 

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