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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 Region of Durham’s Income, Employment and Homelessness Supports Division offers a robust series of workshops aimed at equipping low-income and vulnerable populations with pre-employment and life skills supports. These offerings provide valuable support and complement similar programs delivered by community organizations and institutions. The Region would like to explore what workshops are currently being offered in Durham that align with the themes of employment readiness, financial...

The Region of Durham’s Strategic Initiatives Division is looking for a student artist to engage with the Christine Crescent community in Oshawa to understand local context and then develop and implement a public art project on construction hoarding at phase 1 of the Christine Crescent Housing Redevelopment Project.

 Host Department: Office of the CAO

 Type of Collaboration: A paid co-op/ internship hosted at the Region

 Anticipated Outcome: Vibrant public art installation

 Deliverables: Public Art

The goal of this project is to explore the design and prototype of a unified Artificial Intelligence-powered virtual agent (Agentic AI) capable of delivering Regional municipal services across web, phone, and mobile channels.

 Host Department: Corporate Services

 Type of Collaboration: A small group of students working on a capstone project

 Anticipated Outcome: Develop a detailed architectural blueprint and logic flow for a unified AI virtual agent that outlines how it would integrate with multiple...