On November 28, 2023, third-year BScN students held a fair at the Ingram School of Nursing where they proudly showcased their various community health education projects covering a wide variety of topics.
Negativity Be Gone was the title of a project undertaken by the team of students assigned to the Pierrefonds Community Centre Elementary School (Noémi Rancourt, Caroline Boucher, Camille Ede, Alexandra Riveros). Recognizing that younger children had difficulty regulating extreme emotions while older children expressed low self-esteem, they created materials to help the children at the centre cope with negative emotions.
Assigned to Galileo School for adults with special needs aged 20-70, Archana Kanagassai and Victoria Madejchuk created materials and interactive activities that addressed learning needs around interpreting bodily symptoms and adopting healthy lifestyles. The program was delivered over a four-week period, and results showed that most participants retained the information they had been given.
At the Westhaven Elmhurst Community Recreation Association, the team of Kayla Pickford, Gina Lee, Sarah Law and Geneviève Gagnon-Joseph developed and delivered a workshop that helped children identify their emotions and led them through exercises that brought them to a place of calm.
