Family Centre

If you have a preferred name change, legal name, gender designation change, or address change you will need to notify the university.

Students: full details are available on the Registrars’ Office website.

Faculty and staff: send an email to HRIS@umanitoba.ca with the name related or gender designation change you wish to make and HR staff will guide you through the process.

Employees can self-update an address change through the employee self-service portal via JUMP.

Faculty and staff can update their benefits to add or remove a spouse through SharePoint. You may also use SharePoint to add a new dependent.

For more information, contact your staff benefits generalist to discuss any questions regarding your benefit and insurance coverage.

Counselling is available for students, faculty and staff confronted with challenges of all kinds.

Students
Visit the Student Counselling Centre’s webpage to learn more about available services:

• Student Counselling Centre (SCC) Fort Garry
• Student Counselling Centre (SCC) Bannatyne

Faculty and staff
The University of Manitoba Employee Assistance Programs (EAP) is a voluntary and confidential counselling service for all University of Manitoba staff and their families. Visit the EAP employee and family assistance program page.

• Manitoba Government - Getting married resources

• Manitoba Harvest
• UM Food Bank

• Government of Manitoba name change

• 10 best Ted Talks for your mental health
• Klinic Community Health
• Winnipeg Health Clinic
• Canadian Mental Health Association
• Mood Disorders Association of Manitoba
• Wellbeingguide    
• Kidthink

• Manitoba Justice - Family Law
• Parenting after separation
• Caring for Kids
• Family Conciliation Services
• Legal Aid Manitoba

• Six tips for better sleep
• How sleep can improve your immunity
• How sleep affects your emotions
• Sleep is your superpower
• How much sleep do you really need

• Province of Manitoba - Adoption
• Adoption Options (not-for-profit agency)

• Province of Manitoba foster care

• Heartland Fertility and Gynecology Clinic
• Manitoba Fertility and Men's Health
• Assiniboine Pharmacy - fertility pharmacy

• Klinic - pregnancy options
• Crisis Pregnancy Centre

• Hayley Yarish specializes in grief therapy
• Carli Rossall specializes in perinatal mental health services

Dragonfly Support Program at the Winnipeg Women’s Health Clinic offers counselling, peer support, group support, and resources (in English and French) for individuals and families impacted by pregnancy loss, infant loss, and babies born to spirit.

The Loss to Love app offers grief services to support people affected by pregnancy loss, TFMR, and infant loss.

Angel Baby offers an online memory wall and peer support group, available virtually or in-person in Steinbach, MB.

The Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre is based in Calgary, AB and offers virtual services at no cost to individuals across Canada and beyond. Services include professional support, peer group support, 1:1 peer support and a helpline available via text or online chat.

Free downloadable resources

Instagram: @sad.dads.club is a supportive community for loss dads.

The Loss to Love app offers a pregnancy after loss (PAL) healing circle, group support in six-week sessions.

The Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support Centre offers monthly drop-in peer support groups for individuals and partners who are currently pregnant again after miscarriage, stillbirth, neonatal loss, or SIDS/SUDC who want to connect with others who are in a similar phase of the journey.

For information about the process for applying for leave, please visit SharePoint.

• Maintaining a healthy pregnancy
• Government Maternity and parental leave

• Winnipeg Regional Health Authority midwifery care
• Birth Roots

• Registering your baby's birth
• Social Insurance Number (SIN)
• Registered education savings plan (RESP)
• Manitoba Health (health care coverage)

• Baby Friendly Manitoba - help with breastfeeding
• Breastfeeding drop-in clinics
• Donating breast milk
• Le Leche League Canada - Manitoba

Winnipeg La Leche League phone support and groups: 204-257-3509

Breastfeeding hotline: 204-788-8667 (24/7 service)

• Healthy baby community support programs
• Healthy Parenting Winnipeg
• ManitobaParentZone
• Women's Health Clinic

YouTube videos:

• When you can't go outside
• How to get your kids to play outside
• How to children outside. Should you force them?
• How to engage your kids in the kitchen
• Super Simple Songs
• Nature walks with preschoolers
• 30 toddler/preschool activities
• 10 DIY indoor activities for kids during quarantine
• 100 things to do with kids indoors

• Positive Discipline in Everyday Parenting
• Healthy start for mom and me
• Healthy families
• Winnipeg Public Library pre-school programs
• Assiniboine South early years healthy child coalition
• Fort Garry/ St. Norbert healthy child coalition
• Fort Rouge/ River Heights parent-child coalition
• Harrow United Church rhyme and storytime
• KidThink
• Louis Riel School Division Family Centres
• River East Transcona School Division Kinder Links
• St. James-Assiniboia Parent Child Coalition
• St. Vital Parent Child Coalition
• Seven Oaks School Division
• Nest Family Centre

• Assiniboine North Parent Child Coalition
• Bright Beginnings Manitoba - North Eastman
• Hanover School Division Parent and Child Community Program
• Interlake School Division
• Swan Valley School Division - Better Beginnings
• Steinbach Family Resource Centre

• Crafts and activities for kids

• Families Like Mine
• LGBT Youth Line
• LGBT+ Family Coalition
• LGBTQ Parenting Network
• Pflagcanada
• Rainbow Resource Centre

• Adapt Manitoba
• Asperger Manitoba
• Autism Society Manitoba
• Inclusion Winnipeg
• Manitoba Adolescent Treatment Centre
• Manitoba Education
• Manitoba Parent Zone
• Manitoba Possible
• Specialized Services for Children & Youth
• St. Amant

• CBC Parents
• Winnipeg Parent Magazine

Campus Children’s Centre Inc.

• UM babysitter directory
• Manitoba Child Care Search
• Licensed child care searchable database
• Unlicensed child care centres and child care homes
• Child care subsidies
• A guide to child care in Manitoba

• UM babysitter directory
• Military Family Resource Centre Occasional Childcare Program 
• Kids and Company Winnipeg Back-up Childcare

Spouses or eligible dependents
If a spouse or eligible dependent passes away, you will need to contact the Staff Benefits Office. Staff Benefits will update the records and arrange for spousal/dependent life claims, if applicable.

Employees
If an employee passes away, the department will need to contact the Staff Benefits Office, who will check if any benefits are payable.

The department of the employee will need to complete a cessation form.

Retirees
If a retiree passes away, the family will need to contact the Staff Benefits Office, who will check if any benefits are payable.

The staff benefits office can be reached at benefits@umanitoba.ca

University Governance capture compassionate care or bereavement leaves within the leave of absence governing document. There you will find information on qualifying criteria and the benefits UM staff are entitled to.

• Government of Manitoba - Dealing with death
• Tiny pet memories
• University of Manitoba Chaplains Association
• UM student counselling services
• Winnipeg Humane Society – Pet loss and grief support

Government of Canada Caregiving benefits

Bannatyne campus offers neutral bathroom facilities in the following locations:

• Apotex Centre, room 132 (first floor)
• Basic Medical Sciences, 6th floor near elevator
• Chown Building, room A284 (second floor) room 396 (third floor) and room 496 (fourth floor)
• Clinical Learning and Simulation Facility (CLSF) rooms 34C, 35C and 36J
• College of Rehabilitation Sciences, second floor room R225
• Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry, room D235K
• Joe Doupe Recreation Centre
• Medical Services Building, basement tunnel
• Neil John MacLean Library, rooms 353 and 355
• Pathology Building, P307 3rd floor

Bannatyne campus offers change tables in the following locations:

• Apotex Building, rooms 102 and 109 (first floor)
• Brodie Centre, rooms 171, 172 (first floor) and 275 and 276 (second floor)
• Clinical Learning and Simulation Facility (CLSF) rooms 34C, 35C and 36J
• Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry, room D127
• Medical Services Building, rooms 208A and 209A (second floor)
• Neil John MacLean Library, room 353

The University of Manitoba campuses are a safe space to feed your child anywhere on campus.

The Rady Faculty of Health Sciences Family Centre offers a private and quiet area if for nursing, chest feeding and pumping. Located at 290A Brodie Centre, the child feeding room is available to all staff, faculty and learners.

The room is equipped with a sink, fridge, microwave, change station, two couches and a table for your comfort. The space also has toiletries, including diapers, baby wipes, disposable nursing pads, pads and tampons.

How to access this space

Email the Family Centre to gain access to the child feeding room. Please include your name, department and your employee or student number in your email. If you require a nursing space in your College or clinical placement, let us know and we can look into finding an ad hoc space that can you can use.