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​Dalhousie's Workplace Wellness Grants Program was created to fund projects that promote workplace wellness for faculty and staff through new initiatives or through enhancements to existing initiatives.

Nine applications were funded for 2021-2022, for a total of $25,000 in funding.

The successful applications were:

Faculty of Dentistry: Tracking individual walking, biking, running, hiking, and canoeing activities with the goal of virtually reaching the Faculty of Dentistry at McGill University, which is 1250 km away. [They have blown past McGill and are on their way to UBC!]

Faculty of Engineering:

• Using indoor plants with significance to Indigenous peoples to support wellbeing. The plants will be housed in a central location with informative plaques about their uses and significance.
  
  
• Providing durable picnic benches around Sexton Campus, giving faculty and staff space where they can take advantage of the on-campus green spaces in support of social and mental well-being.
  

Information and Technology Services (ITS): An outdoor health and wellness program for all ITS employees.​

Faculty of Medicine: Developing a peer network to positively impact faculty, evoking the sense of belonging and changes in their personal and professional well-being. This impact on wellness can have far reaching implications that relate to provision of safer patient care, improved professionalism, reduced regulatory body complaints, and improved self care.

Faculty of Open Learning and Career Development: Creating a pre-recorded, asynchronous workshop that can be accessed by staff and faculty on their own time as a resource for developing a mindfulness practice.

Human Rights and Equity Services: Looking to community for inclusive and culturally-relevant models of support and exploring, individually and together, how to focus on and support the many dimensions of wellness for the team and for those they serve.

Registrar's Office: Holding a dedicated day of programming that focuses on the physical, mental, and emotional health of their employees.

Security Services and the School of Occupational Therapy: Continuing the wellness initiative started in 2019-2020 that develops an evidence informed and tailored process to support the well-being of employees who complete shift work, known to impact physical, mental/emotional health, as well as, interpersonal relationships both at work and outside of work.​

Inquiries: healthy@dal.ca