Community Consultation

The GARDENS set out to learn how the community it works to serve experience its services, to ensure it responds to the needs of residents. During the summer, Humber College, as a GARDENS partner, hired two Work Study students, Asna Saeed and Stephanie Gonyea, to undertake this baseline study, under the supervision of Humber staff Ayesha Amin, Global Learning and Strategic Initiatives Coordinator in the Faculty of Social and Community Services, and Kavelle Maharaj, Event Coordinator and Community Liaison at the Lakeshore Campus and Principal’s Office.

Residents of South Etobicoke were given an opportunity to share their experience and views through an anonymous survey and confidential one-on-one interviews. The results of the study have been shared with the GARDENS Advisory Council to consider as the program evolves to better serve the community.