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Ontario farmers face high barriers when considering year-round cultivation. This project focuses on developing farmer-oriented business plans and revenue models for year-round cultivation. The work will combine market research, cost analysis, and economic impact assessment to show how adoption can improve farm revenues and reduce reliance on imports, support rural employment and supply chain diversification, and strengthen resilience against trade disruptions and global food price volatility.

The Region of Durham Child Care and Early Years division would like to continue to build capacity across the early learning and care sector so that educators feel confident, capable, and informed in supporting all children, including those with varying abilities and needs. The team is looking to develop and distribute online self-paced trainings that will enable educators working in licensed child care centres to better support all children and their families through increased awareness of...

The Region of Durham funds multiple community agencies to deliver housing stability and homelessness prevention programs. To ensure these programs are delivering high-quality, equitable, and effective services, the Region is looking to develop a standardized Quality Assurance (QA) tool and supporting success measurement tools. This project builds on work already undertaken through a recent system co-design workshop, which involved broad stakeholder engagement with service providers, lived...

The Social Services Department at Durham Region would like to simplify the complexity in searching for affordable rentals, specifically for seniors.

The intent of this project is to develop ideas to replace the fragmented list of unreliable resources Durham’s residents are currently relying on to find affordable housing.

This system promises to be very user-friendly for seniors and the technically challenged. Everyone searching for a rental unit should be able to utilize this tool to uncover...

The Regional Municipality of Durham’s Family Services Division delivers counselling and mental health services to community clients in Durham Region. These services have come under increased demand in recent years, and Family Services would like to modernize their service model to reduce wait times for community clients.

The overall goal of this project is to research options for reducing mental health/counselling services wait times, through desktop research and interviews, that have been...