Success Stories

Winter 2021

The objective of Durham’s Vision Zero Plan is to ultimately eliminate all serious collisions on Regional / Municipal roadways. Speeding is one of the major causes of collisions. The goal for this project was to develop a solution that the Region can apply to eliminating speeding-related collisions.

Fall 2020

What services do people with disabilities have difficulty accessing in Durham? Why do they have difficulty accessing them? Why is there limited feedback from residents around the barriers they face? The purpose of this project was to gather community feedback on what services people with disabilities are unable to access, why they aren’t able to access them, and why more feedback isn’t given about accessing services. This resulted in numerous suggestions for areas of improvement that...

Project status: ongoing

In Canada, some reports estimate that 5.8 million people live in poverty. One of the ways our community in Durham Region is assisting those living in poverty is through the delivery of 20 volunteer tax clinics at local agencies. However, there is a desire to reach more people and to have a deeper understanding of what financial empowerment strategies might actually work to move individuals out of low income. The project has the following main objectives:

• To discover the...

Fall 2020

Social isolation in seniors is a growing issue in Durham Region. The goal for this project was to develop a solution that the Region could apply to eliminating social isolation in Seniors, which involved creating ways to promote awareness and education on the barriers seniors in the community face when experiencing social isolation. 

Fall 2020

What effect does decommissioning a nuclear facility have on the host community? How have these communities been engaged and responded during the process? The purpose of this project was to outline how decommissioning of nuclear facilities around the world has affected their local communities, and led to recommendations for how these findings and best practices can be applied to Durham Region.