Student Wellbeing Health Equity Commitment Statement

Updated November 12, 2024 

The Student Wellbeing team affirms our commitment to an approach steeped in health equity, accessibility, and inclusion, that honours our students’ voice and lived experience. We commit to the following: 

• We are committed to understanding that students are experts in their own experiences, and to working collaboratively with them, the TMU community, our neighbours in downtown Toronto and our partners in other communities to cultivate wellbeing.  
• We are actively committed to acknowledging and reducing health disparities, and to co-creating structures and practices with our students and community members that recognize and address health inequities.
• We are devoted to adopting a comprehensive, trauma-informed and systemic approach to care that considers the whole person, and that is rooted in accessibility and an understanding of the social determinants of health.
• We are committed to taking responsibility for making positive change in the lives of students and the community, and will take direct and ongoing action to address ableism, attitudinal barriers, anti-Asian racism, anti-Black racism, anti-Indigenous racism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-2SLGBTQIA+ discrimination, and other forms of racism and oppression. 
• We are committed to learning, unlearning and supporting one another as members of Student Wellbeing as we embrace bringing about positive change in the lives of students and the community through our work.