This is SLC: Our College News

An update on the advancement of SLC's Integrated Mental Health Strategy (IMHS), shared on behalf of the Integrated Mental Health Task Force during Mental Health Week, May 1-7, 2023, where Canadian communities, schools, and workplaces rally to celebrate, protect, and promote mental health.

Helena Neveu, Indigenous Knowledge Keeper, talks about the upcoming Downie Wenjack Legacy Spaces that will be installed on all three of our St. Lawrence College campuses. Inspired by Gord Downie’s – Wicapi Omani – Man Who Walks Among the Stars – call to build awareness and understanding of the Residential School System, legacy spaces build connections of friendship, love, and kindness in reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Canada.

St. Lawrence College is seeking nominations for the 2023 Premier’s Awards and calling on our SLC Community to help us recognize our grads making a difference in their communities and blazing a path for others. This is an opportunity to highlight our wonderful grads and demonstrate how their college education contributed to their success.

On any given workday in Canada, three people will die from a job-related fatality, life-altering injury or occupational disease. On April 28th of each year we pause, reflect and remember those workers who left home to go to their job and never returned home.

A student’s idea to talk about mental health to reduce stigma in a comic strip has been selected by SLC’s Integrated Mental Health Strategy’s (IMHS) core team for further development. Hailey Clark, a third-year Graphic Design student created the comic strip as part of the Design Your Community project in the fifth semester course Graphic Design 5.