Success Stories

Winter 2021

Creating awareness and uptake of information related to Climate Change and Sustainability, such as the Climate Action Project, is key to mitigating the effects of climate change.

The purpose of this project was to have students perform research and develop ideas for creating awareness around climate change curriculum.

Winter 2021

Child care is flexible when it meets the needs of parents who work non-standard or variable hours. The purpose of this project was to investigate how we offer flexible child care in Durham  Region and balance the needs of families with cost efficiency.

Fall 2021

There is considerable difficulty in measuring the health of Durham Region’s economy. Traditional methods of measuring economic growth and activity (such as GDP) are not available for Durham Region, so we often rely on numerous individual data points to get a sense of how the economy is performing. However, these data points often run in contradiction to one another (e.g. high unemployment and strong housing sales/prices) making it difficult to draw any conclusions on the state of the...

Winter 2021

Research tells us that the health of immigrants declines after a period of time in Canada. Access to healthcare and other health services could be a key factor. The purpose of this project was to explore ways we can increase our understanding of the newcomer healthcare experience.

Winter 2021

The purpose of this project is to better understand the key components of successful interventions that have aided early learning professionals in preventing at-risk behaviours in young children. Durham Region’s rebuilding the village project looks at interventions for at-risk behaviours in children five years of age or younger. This project looked at early childhood education curriculum in the Greater Toronto Area to see where there are courses that are teaching interventions for...