Strategic goal: Expand sustainable and cohesive interprofessional education and clinical opportunities.

Strategic actions:

• Support, develop and maintain clinical/fieldwork education in all three disciplines that provide opportunities for full scope of practice experiences.
• Expand sustainable and cohesive interprofessional education and clinical opportunities.
• Develop and expand student-led clinics.
• Innovate interprofessional collaborations in education.

Strategic goal: Advance distributive models of education to reach rural, northern, and remote communities.

Strategic actions:

• Explore the development of northern and rural cohorts for CoRS programs.
• Increase capacity for rural, remote clinical/fieldwork education opportunities for occupational therapy, physiotherapy and respiratory therapy.
• Explore and create opportunities for remote learning through online course offerings.

Strategic goal: Provide high quality educational programs, meeting the needs of Manitobans and beyond.

Strategic actions:

• Sustain and support professional education programs in occupational therapy, physiotherapy and respiratory therapy to enable them to maintain full accreditation status.
• Develop and implement a Master of Speech-Language Pathology program.
• Grow and sustain the MSc Rehabilitation Sciences program.
• Develop and implement a PhD in Rehabilitation Sciences program.
• Build accessible, timely, reliable and sustainable infrastructure and processes that support innovative program delivery.

Strategic goal: Increase interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship that is highly competitive and impactful.

Strategic actions:

• Develop a College of Rehabilitation Sciences research and scholarly activity strategy that prioritizes interdisciplinary collaboration, community relevance, and competitive research funding.
• Attract, support, and retain researchers from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to enrich scholarship and foster innovation.
• Develop mechanisms to support collaborative and interdisciplinary scholarship.
• Reimagine the space at the Rehabilitation Hospital to promote research aligned with rehabilitation science priorities.
• Reimagine the research space at Riverview Hospital to facilitate collaboration and community engagement in research.

Strategic goal: Advance health and person-centered research, informed by authentic reciprocal engagement.

Strategic actions:

• Advocate for rehabilitation science research/scholarship initiatives across the spectrum of health and social care.
• Work with community partners to identify priority areas for rehabilitation research.

Strategic goal: Enhance core platforms that advance all research pillars (i.e., SSHRC, NSERC/CIHR I, II, III, IV).

Strategic actions:

• Explore the development of a UM endowed research chair in Rehabilitation Sciences
• Develop and support a Canada Research Chair application

Strategic goal: Advance and contribute to health partnerships, informing policy and practice.

Strategic actions:

• Collaborate with health authorities and other community partners to address job vacancies in underserved areas (e.g., through admissions policies, practice opportunities, scholarships).

Strategic goal: Improve reciprocal community engagement through new and existing outreach programs.

Strategic actions:

• Reimagine the “Kiga mamo anokimin onji minoayawin/ Ka mamawi atoskatenow minoyawin/ We will work together for health and wellness” project.
• Create learning opportunities for students in Indigenous communities.
• Actively engage with alumni and the clinical community.

Strategic goal: Increase efforts to support, coordinate and expand pathway programs.

Strategic actions:

• In partnership with First Nation communities, develop, implement and evaluate the G.O.O.S.E. (Grow Our Own Specialists Through Education).
• Develop and strengthen Indigenous pathways to rehabilitation sciences programs.
• Support the development of University College of the North “BA to BRT” program.
• Advocate for laddering from the Bachelor of Health Studies and Health Sciences programs in the Rdy Faculty to College of Rehabilitation Sciences programs.

Strategic goal: Implement the revised UM/Rady Faculty of Health Sciences reconciliation action plan.

Strategic actions:

• Co-create and support an Indigenous learner cohort that fosters belonging, academic success and cultural safety.
• Implement strategies to recruit, mentor and retain Indigenous scholars.
• Implement policies and practices that support universal design for learning.
• Develop networks and programs that support the inclusion, advancement and leadership of systemically underrepresented faculty and staff.
• Develop and implement flexible work options that reflect the diverse responsibilities and needs of faculty and staff.

Strategic goal: Embed Indigenous initiatives and Indigenization of curricula in all programs.

Strategic actions:

• Redistribute intellectual power and privilege through the inclusion of Indigenous knowledges, worldviews and research methodologies across all programs.
• Indigenize/decolonize CoRS physical and digital spaces.
• Engage Indigenous scholars across the college to advise on approaches and opportunities to advance Indigenization and decolonization.

Strategic goal: Increase recruitment of, and support for, Indigenous learners removing barriers.

Strategic actions:

• Strive to decolonize processes impacting recruitment, enrolment, access and retention of Indigenous learners.
• Develop and implement flexible learning options to meet the needs of diverse learners.

Strategic goal: Adopt the principles of the Okanagan Charter.

Strategic actions:

• Determine how to implement the Okanagan Charter.
• Develop a process that acknowledges and supports the principles of the Okanagan Charter for faculty, staff and students.
• Embed the principles of the Okanagan Charter through the work of the “Strengthening our Community” initiative.

Strategic goal: Establish work and learning environments that promote balance and wellness.

Strategic actions:

• Launch and manage the “Strengthening our Community” fund to support initiatives that enhance workplace and learning well-being.
• Develop a process for reviewing/assessing the College of Rehabilitation Sciences' new projects/initiatives and capacity to take them on.
• Implement comprehensive onboarding processes that include information on wellness services and community resources at UM.
• Establish a College Staff Council to support communication and decision-making.
• Develop social spaces for all College of Rehabilitation Sciences members, including dedicated faculty space for informal interactions.
• Form a College of Rehabilitation Sciences Accessibility Committee and implement recommendations from a formal accessibility audit or physical, social and psychological spaces.
• Organize regular College of Rehabilitation Sciences community-building events and activities to build a sense of belonging.
• Review and streamline the College of Rehabilitation Sciences organizational processes.

Strategic goal: Increase and formalize mentorship and professional development opportunities for faculty and staff.

Strategic actions:

• Develop, implement and evaluate a teaching and learning mentorship program for faculty.
• Develop, implement and evaluate a research mentorship program for tenure stream faculty.
• Develop, implement and evaluate a staff development program for administrative staff.
• Support participation in UM and Rady Faculty of Health Sciences cultural safety, leadership and other programs that support lifelong learning.

Strategic goal: Ensure common core competencies in social justice, anti-racism, anti-ableism and anti-oppressive practices.

Strategic actions:

• In collaboration with the Rdy Faculty of Health Sciences, identify and define foundational competencies in social justice, anti-racism, anti-ableism, and anti-oppressive practices for faculty, staff and students.
• Design and deliver accessible, inclusive, and reflective educational opportunities that foster the development and application of these core competencies across all roles in the College.

Strategic goal: Achieve equity, access and participation at all levels within the Rady Faculty.

Strategic actions:

• Identify, and address systemic barriers to equity, access and participation within teaching, research and service-learning environments. Advocate for change and removal of barriers within our environments.
• Participate in Rady Faculty-led activities in this domain.

Strategic goal: Ensure culturally safe and inclusive work and learning environments that invite participation by everyone.

Strategic actions:

• Encourage active participation of College faculty, staff and students in the development of work and learning environment initiatives that promote cultural safety and inclusivity.
• Ensure that physical and digital environments are welcoming, accessible, and clearly communicate information through inclusive signage and wayfinding systems.

Strategic goal: Ensure societal, cultural, economic and environmental sustainability.

Strategic actions:

• Ensure that the community initiatives we engage in are sustainable and scalable.
• Advocate for positive, meaningful change for vulnerable, at-risk, displaced and marginalized people in Manitoba and beyond.
• Ensure that projects that we engage in support principles of good environmental stewardship.

Strategic goal: Ensure that we are guided by ethical decision-making, continuous improvement, and the integration of sustainable practices in everything we do.

Strategic actions:

• Ensure our curricula reflect our commitment to building a sustainable future.
• Promote ethical decision-making and continuous improvement in all our business and research processes.
• Integrate sustainable considerations and practices in all teaching and learning, business, research and service work.