Accelerating Community Health and Well-Being

这个应用程序的首要目标是通过解决谢里登学院的合作伙伴的应用研究需求，以加速社区健康和福祉。谢里丹主要服务于哈尔顿和皮尔地区的不同社区。这些地区的行业和社区利益攸关方已将健康和福祉确定为优先事项，需要创新来应对一系列挑战，包括：与大流行病有关的身心健康问题及其对企业的影响、健康老龄化、慢性病的预防和管理，以及影响包容和福祉的社区层面挑战。这项动员赠款将使我们能够通过四个主要目标对这些需求作出战略性反应：扩大和多样化我们的网络，为更广泛的合作伙伴提供服务，包括非营利组织；扩大学院在健康和福祉研究和创新方面的能力；增加跨部门和跨学科的研究，以解决复杂的伙伴需求；增加有意义的学生培训机会。基于我们研究中心和院系的重要专业知识，我们将通过填补关键的人员缺口来实现这些目标，以支持合作伙伴关系的发展，跨学科研究的协调，以及推广和传播，并通过提供快速访问种子基金，使早期的研究活动能够服务于我们的社区，吸引教师和培养学生。支持健康社区是一个机构优先事项。我们预计这笔资金将有助于推进我们的战略研究目标，并为我们的合作伙伴带来许多好处，包括改进产品、服务和生产力；增进社区成员之间的平等和归属感；并为我们所服务的地区带来长期的健康、社会和经济效益。简而言之，拟议的资金将对谢里登和我们的社区产生持久的影响。

The overarching goal of this application is to accelerate community health and well-being by addressing the applied research needs of Sheridan College's partners. Sheridan primarily serves the diverse communities in the regions of Halton and Peel. Industry and community stakeholders in these regions have identified health and well-being as a priority, with innovation needed to address a spectrum of challenges including: pandemic-related mental and physical health issues and repercussions on businesses, healthy aging, chronic disease prevention and management, and community-level challenges impacting inclusion and well-being. This Mobilize grant will allow us to respond strategically to these needs through four main objectives: growing and diversifying our network to serve a broader range of partners, including not-for-profits; expanding our capacity in health and well-being research and innovation at the college; increasing cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary research to tackle complex partner needs; and enhancing meaningful student training opportunities. Building on the significant expertise of our Research Centres and Faculties, we will accomplish these objectives by filling critical staffing gaps to support partnership development, coordination of interdisciplinary research, and outreach and dissemination, and by providing rapid access to Seed Funds to enable early-stage research activities to serve our communities, engage faculty, and train students. Supporting healthy communities is an institutional priority. We anticipate that this funding will help advance our strategic research objectives and lead to numerous benefits for our partners, including improved products, services and productivity; greater equity and belonging among our community members; and the resulting long-term health, societal, and economic benefits for the regions we serve. In short, the proposed funding will catalyze lasting impacts for Sheridan and for our communities.