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The Regional Municipality of Durham’s Children’s Services Division would like to identify evidence-based products or tools that they can develop or provide to early learning professionals and caregivers to equip and empower them to address children’s mental health.

Specifically, this project will focus on developing products or tools that connect with the physical well-being, social competence, and emotional maturity domains of the Early Development Instrument (EDI).

Host Department: Social...

The Regional Municipality of Durham would like to identify how effective our current communications tactics are and identify best practices that similar organizations are using when engaging with the public.

This project would include assessing both the effectiveness of current communications (e.g. social media posts, methods for obtaining community feedback) and understanding what similar organizations are doing that have proven to be effective ways of engaging with their community (obtained...

Durham Region is developing a Public Art and Creative Placemaking program. To support student artists, the Region is considering establishing an Artist-In-Residence summer student program. Under the program, student artist(s) would work closely with the Region, other partners and the public to showcase their creative practices while creating a work that enlivens a public space.

As a first step, the Region would like to conduct research that can inform program development. This would include...

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 counselling services wait times, through desktop research and interviews, that have been implemented in...