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• Surviving and Thriving in a COVID-19 Remote Learning Context: A Survey of Post-Secondary Students and Instructors in Ontario

  This research project examined many of the effects on teaching and learning at several Ontario post-secondary institutions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 793 participants (611 students and 182 instructors) from across Ontario participated in the study, providing their perspectives on the current remote post-secondary educational landscape. Findings from this research shone a spotlight on the teaching and learning opportunities created for both instructors and students, as well as the challenges and needs experienced in the transition to remote learning. The authors hope that the results of this snapshot of remote learning in Ontario post-secondary institutions will help the SXD Lab and eCampusOntario continue supporting students to not only survive remote learning, but thrive within human-centered, technology-enabled solutions in a post-pandemic educational environment.
• Celebrating our Love and Compassion Podcast!

  The Love and Compassion podcast with Gissele offers 30-1 hour podcast conversations via audio and on YouTube. The purpose of this podcast is to help individuals be more loving and compassionate towards themselves and others and to have conversations about how to bring greater compassion into systems. The overall goal of our podcast is to be able to love one another and even be compassionate and loving to those who are hurtful with the goal of bringing greater unity into our world.
• Life, Love, Lemonade

  Life Love Lemonade is a powerful book about women's stories of making the most out of life's challenges. "Let’s be real; life can be hard. It gets messy, gritty, and incredibly tart. Lemonade is a collection of stories written by warrior women who share powerful, vulnerable, and bone-chilling truths that will inspire and empower you to find the lemons in your life, sip some tangy yet sweet lemonade, and unravel your tightly wound self a bit more . . . until you feel free . . . bold . . . courageous . . . and expansive enough to be who you are . . . who you are meant to be."
• Indigenous Healing: Voices of Elders and Healers

  This book stemmed from recognition of the lack of understanding of Tra­ditional healing and Indigenous people in mainstream Canadian culture. Its intention is to share Traditional healing knowledge in a good way with an audience as a beginning effort to bridge the large cultural divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. The writer is Indigenous and conducted a culturally congruent examination toward better understanding a cultural phenomenon. This cultural phenomenon is Traditional healing. While this book has also been about personal growth and understanding the self, it began and remains about the growth and development of Indigenous knowl­edge.
• Necessary but not Sufficient: Improving Community Living for Youth After Residential Mental Health Programs

  Youth residential mental health care is often a last resort after a long time searching for help. Despite engaging with residential care, moving from residential mental health programs to life in the community, many youth still confront disturbing prospects. Incorporating vignettes, chapter summaries, as well as theory and evidence in fields such as education, juvenile justice, child welfare, independent living, supporting families, and positive youth development, this book proposes a template that is both credible and feasible for improving community living outcomes for youth leaving residential mental health programs.