The pandemic had created an impact on students' life and learning experience at school since March 2020. Four students living in St James Town shared their experiences on how the pandemic affected their summer break, return to school, holiday break, and relationship with family and friends. First Name: Chloe Age: 10 Grade 5 How has [...]
As the year comes to an end, The Corner team would like to thank our volunteers for supporting our food security programs such as the food bank and meal program during the pandemic. We thank all of our volunteers for their commitment and dedication for their support in serving St James Town residents. We [...]
On January 12, Canada celebrated National Youth Day (separate from International Youth Day which falls on August 12), as we go into the 11th month of the COVID-19 pandemic. Toronto will be in the midst of a lockdown that began on November 23 and has been extended as an emergency. Meanwhile, around North America, [...]
Our topic today is how to stay healthy during the winter months. It can be challenging to eat healthy and keep active when the days are short and weather outside is chilly. Joining us today are experts from Sherbourne Health to provide us with some winter tips: Daniella Moss – Registered Nurse - Do you [...]
Over the past year, our attention has been focused on the pandemic which has caused so much havoc, disruption, anxiety and grief around the world. In December we saw a glimmer of light with the interim approval by Health Canada of a COVID-19 vaccine made by the German company BioNTech and its U.S. partner [...]
2020 has been a rather odd year. While it has been a year of toilet rolls, zoom calls, and YouTube fitness videos, it has also been a time of learning, retrospection, and creativity. The Corner has stood by the St. James Town community through it all. New challenges have provided our community with new [...]
The 2020 St. James Town Leadership Forum was held on Friday, November 20, over zoom. The event was a follow-up from the first leadership forum in 2017, and is now envisaged as an ongoing annual event. The 2020 Leadership forum, Reimagining: Our Neighborhood. Our collaboration. Our impact was an opportunity to share St. James [...]
With the onset of winter, we have three illnesses very similar to each other that we need to watch out: Cold, Flu, Covid. Dr. June from Sherbourne Health talks to us about the differences and how we need to watch out for them. 1. Winter is here and so is cold and flu season. How [...]
The Seniors’ Group has existed for 8 years in St. James Town and started after the fire at 200 Wellesley in 2010. Prior to COVID-19, the group consisted of about 20 people per session and there was already a Computer Learning Program in place, but it quickly pivoted to Zoom. The Tablet Training program [...]
Alana Banton was born and raised in Toronto. She has a master's in community development and work as a follow-up support worker at Wigwamen. Her role is to provide transitional support to newly housed Indigenous peoples and developing capacity building programs. They have years of experience in outreach and program development. An overview of [...]
Nalini Pandalangat, Director of Newcomer Health & Specialty Services, Sherbourne Health, is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She completed her PhD at the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Toronto, and has extensive experience leading projects and programs in the community health, hospital and international development sectors. Her PhD was on cultural influences on help-seeking, treatment and support for mental health problems in the Sri Lankan Tamil community. Her research and program interests are focused on immigrant mental health, gender and health, cultural competence, health care access and health equity. Currently she is part of a core team working on the development and dissemination of a refugee mental health framework.
