Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences is partnered with the University of Toronto Scarborough to host the EmpowerU Recovery College for students at your campus. Recovery College is a unique and free mental health and well-being learning centre where people with lived experiences of navigating wellness through the post-secondary experience and peers come together to co-design and deliver courses on topics that support mental health and well-being.
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Co-Design: Tuesday, March 31st, 2026 from 3:00-4:30 pm VIRTUAL
What will we do?
You are an expert in the student experience, and we value your voice! If you are interested in informing mental health programming at your school, this is the course for you. You and your peers will come together to brainstorm ideas for Recovery College courses to be offered next semester. You will decide on the course topics, the content, how you would like to engage students. As students, you and your peers know your needs better than anyone else. We can’t wait to learn and create alongside you!
What will we learn?
You will learn about EmpowerU, Co-Design, and the Recovery College process.
How to work as a member of a team to design and co-create relevant and impactful mental health-related courses
How to leverage your experiences navigating wellness as a post-secondary student as a source of strength and value to programming at UTSC.