Introducing the 2021 Health Promotion Lab Trampoline Cohort

From the RADIUS Health Promotion Lab, meet the 2021 Trampoline cohort! 

We are thrilled to introduce our latest Trampoline program cohort, part of the RADIUS Health Promotion Lab!

What is Trampoline, you ask? It’s a business model validation program for early-stage ventures, including non-profits and social enterprises. Trampoline supports emerging health equity-centred entrepreneurs test their business model, giving them the confidence needed to move forward. The Health Promotion Lab is excited to work alongside this year’s cohort!

This year’s cohort includes 15 participants and ten ventures. Learn more about each of them and the communities they aim to serve!

Abeer (she/her/hers) works at DiverseCity Community Resources, a non-profit organization based in Surrey. Abeer supports Arabic-speaking newcomers experiencing complex and multiple challenges in settling into their new life in BC. In 2020, she received the Heart of DiverseCity Award for going above and beyond in her work with the community. Abeer has a doctorate specializing in chronic pain development from McGill University in Québec and enjoys being out in nature in her downtime.

Ancestral Hands Midwives is a Black-led maternity program that addresses the urgent problem facing Black women and people: poor perinatal outcomes and experiences. Ancestral Hands Midwives is a collaborative midwife-led perinatal program with a focus on empowerment, education, access and holistic care. Our mission is to reduce racial disparities in maternal outcomes and improve the experience of care for Black people during the perinatal period. We will achieve this through programming that includes midwife-led prenatal and postpartum education, advocacy, and connection to community services.

Touches of Humanity is a social enterprise that aims to promote well-being through psychoeducational and community-based initiatives. Humans are in a constant process of touching one another and, as Michelangelo said, to touch is to give life. Whether at the macro or micro level, our lives are shaped by these moments of energetic exchanges and thus we can consider ways in which we can become more mindful and reflective in the process. Noticing the patterns within the self and extending to our ecosystem and understanding the bi-directional nature of the process may facilitate understanding, healing, and growth.

My interest has always been in harmonious community—in supporting, creating, maintaining it—and this is a cyclical and ever-shifting effort given our modern way of life in the greater part of the western world.  My interests are focused on aligning inner well-being—our true nature—with the nature of the world/universe we live in.  The world can live without us, but we cannot live without this world.  Helping to facilitate knowledge, understanding, practices, and dialogue around the issues that concern us most— from overarching systems that impact our opportunities and obstacles to the effects of our daily living and approach to physiological enhancement—so that we may reconnect with our inner guidance system and make a meaningful change in our own health and that of our community, whether close or distant.  The health of the individual is integral to the health of our communities and our earth.  My education is a double-major in philosophy and psychology, and as a mature student, I also bring a lifetime of personal, volunteer, and varied work experience to my project.  And, I am very happy and grateful to have this opportunity.

Miqyas (مقياس a word meaning measurement) is an early-stage venture that aims to lower the rates of chronic diseases both on a national and global scale across all populations by providing information. We believe that knowledge/information will empower individuals to make the right choice. By creating a device that will measure the level of sugar and salt intake in liquid meals/drinks compared to or in regard to daily recommended intake, end users will be given the autonomy to make both an informed and right decision. Miqyas’s vision is to improve wellness and holistic health of the population on a global scale. 

irini technologies is an SFU student and alum-led venture consisting of Michael Le (BBA Hons., Accounting), Devan Parmar (BBA, MIS), James Liu (BASc., Mechatronics), Carlo Clores (BSc., Applied Physics), and Lucy Lei (BSc., Environmental Sciences). irini’s vision is to leverage technology, big data, automation, and artificial intelligence to tackle problems related to sedentary lifestyles and barriers to health and wellbeing.

irini technologies is an SFU student and alum-led venture consisting of Michael Le (BBA Hons., Accounting), Devan Parmar (BBA, MIS), James Liu (BASc., Mechatronics), Carlo Clores (BSc., Applied Physics), and Lucy Lei (BSc., Environmental Sciences). irini’s vision is to leverage technology, big data, automation, and artificial intelligence to tackle problems related to sedentary lifestyles and barriers to health and wellbeing.

irini technologies is an SFU student and alum-led venture consisting of Michael Le (BBA Hons., Accounting), Devan Parmar (BBA, MIS), James Liu (BASc., Mechatronics), Carlo Clores (BSc., Applied Physics), and Lucy Lei (BSc., Environmental Sciences). irini’s vision is to leverage technology, big data, automation, and artificial intelligence to tackle problems related to sedentary lifestyles and barriers to health and wellbeing.

irini technologies is an SFU student and alum-led venture consisting of Michael Le (BBA Hons., Accounting), Devan Parmar (BBA, MIS), James Liu (BASc., Mechatronics), Carlo Clores (BSc., Applied Physics), and Lucy Lei (BSc., Environmental Sciences). irini’s vision is to leverage technology, big data, automation, and artificial intelligence to tackle problems related to sedentary lifestyles and barriers to health and wellbeing.

irini technologies is an SFU student and alum-led venture consisting of Michael Le (BBA Hons., Accounting), Devan Parmar (BBA, MIS), James Liu (BASc., Mechatronics), Carlo Clores (BSc., Applied Physics), and Lucy Lei (BSc., Environmental Sciences). irini’s vision is to leverage technology, big data, automation, and artificial intelligence to tackle problems related to sedentary lifestyles and barriers to health and wellbeing.

Lucksini is a first-generation Tamil-Canadian whose interests are focused on improving equitable and sustainable access to health services and other resources for racialized populations. Her passion to support her own community in a meaningful and inclusive manner led her to join the Research and Evaluation team at SATWC.

 

SATWC is an initiative consisting of South Asian & Tamil women, girls, and non-binary people who come together to curate spaces for intergenerational connection, growth, and learning. This includes designing, implementing, and evaluating programming that are focused on the diverse and emerging needs of South Asians in the Greater Toronto Area, especially those facing greater forms of marginalization.

Shanny is a gold-medallist Tai Chi Instructor, choreographer and Buddhist for over 20 years. Through relaxing movement and meditation, Tai Chi Shan invites you on a journey towards the realignment of body, mind and spirit.

The RADIUS Health Promotion Lab aims to centre health equity while fostering the creation and incubation of equity-based models, ventures, partnerships, and interventions by those from communities disproportionately impacted by health inequities. Learn more about the Lab and opportunities here!

Trampoline is made possible through funding from our partner #RBCFuture Launch.