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- 2023
- The Boat People Art Installation
- Downtown Eastside Art Engagement Project
- Ears That Listen, Hands That Help
- Food For Marginalized Youth
- GenConnect: Connecting Punjabi Seniors & Youth
- Inside Out
- Mitti Vancouver
- NaloxHome Community Panel: It Takes a Community: Exploring the Forces Behind BC’s Overdose Crisis
- One Tap Away: A chatbot to bridge the service gap in gender-based violence services
- Orange BC Run
- Read For Our Lives
- Rooted In
- Solastalgia Zine
- 2022
- Knowledge Translation Re-imagining: Healthcare in the DTES
- Memorializing the First Filipino in Canada: A documentary
- Mixed-Race Community Group: Exploring Self, Ancestries, and Lands
- Documenstory - Ashcroft Youth Media Club
- The Process of Political Activism
- Happy, Connected, Resilient Neighbours
- Crafting Circles
- Trans Connect-ing Youth in Sport
- Ocean Care through Data Embodying and Behaviour Changes
- Let’s Do Breakfast
- Empowering Muslim Youth
- Peer Connect: Accessibility Meet up/ Games Night
- The Reclamation of Women's Bundles
- 2021
- ACSSPA Sewing Mask Project
- Art for Comfort: Art for Connection
- BC Newcomer Camp
- Burnaby Mountain Festival
- Generation BXY
- Glow Within Foundation
- Haida Nerds
- Hastings Folk Garden Sound Map
- Indigenous Tutoring and Mentoring Program (ITMP)
- Math Walks
- NaloxHome SFU
- OMG I have ADHD
- OneTime
- Public Health Speaks
- ReRooting Relationships
- Singing Our Truths: Telling Our Stories
- Voices 4 Reconciliation
- Young Minds Exploring Science
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- News & stories
- Thirteen student-led teams launch impactful community partnerships.
- Your personal connection is your greatest strength
- Downtown Eastside Art Engagement Project
- Making your project a passion
- Cooking up a breakfast program with love
- Fourteen student-led teams win funding to realize community impact!
- Leaders & Learners
- These 18 teams are springing into action with community
- Develop your capacity as a changemaker – and have fun!
- Embracing the complexity: pivoting as a practice.
- You know what’s not scary? $3,000 to fund your awesome project.
- SFU student creates youth-led overdose education and naloxone training during B.C.’s overdose crisis
- SFU student-community partnership creates local impact in Surrey
- SFU Students Exemplify the Spirit of Innovation and Community Engagement at the Annual President’s Gala
- Co-creation is difficult. And it's worth it.
- Hands-on for impact
- Congratulations to this year’s winners!
- On power and engagement – an interview with Aslam Bulbulia (excerpted)
- Herbert’s story: how one shopping cart made a difference.
- Don't wait for perfection – jump in
- Congratulations to our 2017-18 finalists and winners
- Discover what’s possible when university students and communities work together
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OMG I have ADHD
Team members: Roberta Mcdonald (SFU Community Capacity Building Program), Jordan Lane
The ongoing social impacts of the pandemic are profound, and mental health challenges are increasingly common. For many newly diagnosed ADHD adults and those just beginning their discovery journey, it’s an incredibly difficult time. In addition, the stripping away of social supports and coping mechanisms has resulted in a large increase in ADHD discovery, and the medical community has not been able to keep pace with demand: there is a huge gap in access to diagnosis and treatment of adult ADHD in BC (waiting lists are long and there are very few clinics that treat adult ADHD), the financial barriers are significant for counselling/medications, and people have vastly different experiences with ADHD depending on how well resourced they are.
OMG, I Have ADHD is intended as a spark, a conduit for community support bolstered by vetted professionals in the field of treatment. As co-hosts of a popular podcast (50,000+ streams and counting) about ADHD, we have received feedback from BC listeners about the lack of care and information available, particularly in the realm of support and peer-led initiatives. If we create a peer-led event and collective for people diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood, then they will have access to meaningful social connections along with current knowledge and research from leading experts. Our goal is to host two half day events featuring speakers from the clinical community alongside adults with lived experience to provide a platform and community hub for the neurodivergent community. These events will also act as a conduit and springboard for peer-led support communities to be established in the Lower Mainland with an eye of expanding across BC and eventually Canada. We believe in nothing about us without us, so creating peer-led support groups that are informed by accessibility, compassion, and dignity can act as a powerful agent in creating relationships, busting stigmas, and fostering learning.
Communty partners:
Santina Mozgiel (Clinical practitioner with Adult ADHD clinic), Dr. Anita Parhar and Dr. Gurdeep Parhar (Adult ADHD Centre in Burnaby)
DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA FOR CHANGE?
Up to $30,000* is available to fund SFU students who want to work with community partners to drive meaningful, lasting impact.
Maybe you’re working on an existing idea for a class you’re taking, through a student club or another organization, or maybe you just have an amazing idea that keeps you up at night.... Whatever it is, we want to hear from you!
Start the process now by registering today and then submitting your idea before November 22 – all you need is your passion and an idea.
* Award amounts subject to change.