Success Stories

Winter 2022

­Durham College students help parents and educators across the Region

Durham College’s Early Childhood Education (ECE) students have wrapped up their final year placement project with CityStudio Durham. The project not only helped educators and parents across the Region, it helped college students with their future careers as well.

“The (ECE) program helped us learn the fundamentals of becoming amazing registered early childhood educators. But this project made us think, learn, and dig...

Fall 2021

The Innovation and Research Team in the Strategic Initiatives Division in the Chief Administrative Officer’s (CAO) office has undergone a revise and refresh of our approach to supporting innovation and research at the Regional Municipality of Durham. We identified some strategic areas for maturing our innovation capabilities. Through this project we performed jurisdictional scans and literature research to map emerging trends and established practices and help support an...

Winter 2022

The goal of this project was to understand how we might integrate accessibility and inclusive design considerations into Durham Region’s innovation process. This included answering questions such as:

• What are the principles of accessible and inclusive design?

• What are the practical implications of these principles to the municipal innovation process?

• How might innovation tools be made inclusive?

• How might diverse perspectives be captured throughout the innovation process?

Fall 2021

Sport Durham helps grow sporting events and sport culture in Durham Region. To support this initiative we investigated questions like:

*What value do community sport councils deliver?
*What are some examples of effective community sport councils and what are the measures by which they are recognized as effective?
*Who typically leads community sport councils?
*What are the resources required for community sport councils to be effective (people and time)?
*Are there regions (consisting of...

Fall 2021

In Canada we have a small association of nuclear host communities, based mainly in Ontario. The purpose of this project was to gain a better understanding of whether similar host community organizations exist in other jurisdictions, how they operate (e.g., who’s involved, how it’s funded and staffed), what role do they play in the nuclear sector, how they support the host communities, how effective they are at meeting goals, and what the critical success factors are.