Events
The Safer STEM Lab Session 6: Growing Change Together
In our final session, we’ll come together in an open, ask-me-anything (AMA)-style space to reflect, share, and deepen our learning. Bring your questions, curiosities, and challenges—this is your opportunity to connect directly with facilitators and peers across sectors.
The Safer STEM Lab Session 5: Fostering Meaningful Engagement with STEM Employers
Explore how to build more meaningful, reciprocal relationships with employers that prioritize student well-being. Through discussion and resource-sharing, we’ll identify promising practices for setting shared expectations, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and encouraging proactive, trauma-informed approaches to preventing and responding to incidents of sexual harassment.
The Safer STEM Lab Session 4: Aligning Institutional Policies & Protocols (Part 2)
In this second part of our policy-focused series, we’ll turn our attention to implementation. How do you build buy-in across departments, programs, and partners? How do you communicate your policy and protocol in ways that are clear, accessible, and empowering for students, staff, and employers?
The Safer STEM Lab Session 3: Building Institutional Policies & Protocols (Part 1)
In this first of a two-part session, we’ll explore the foundations of policy and protocol development specific to experiential learning contexts. You’ll identify key building blocks, common gaps, and opportunities to strengthen your institutional or organizational response.
The Safer STEM Lab Session 2: Preparing Students for Experiential Learning Opportunities
Are your students prepared to enter their co-op or internship? Beyond technical skills, students need to feel confident in their rights and responsibilities, and so do the employers, industry professionals, and post-secondary staff who support them.
The Safer STEM Lab Session 1: Understanding Sexual Harassment in Experiential Learning
Join us for this practical and interactive session where we will unpack how and why sexual harassment shows up in experiential learning spaces, and what we can do about it.
Catalyzing Safer STEM Learning Spaces
View the event recording on our YouTube channel.
We’re thrilled to officially launch our At the Root initiative with an inspiring conversation featuring Canada’s own “Science Sam,” Dr. Samantha Yammine. As Science Sam shares her personal journey, we will explore how experiential learning in post-secondary education plays a pivotal role in starting and stopping women and gender-diverse students from pursuing rewarding careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Together, we will reflect on how we can foster safer and more inclusive environments, and the practical steps we can take to advance gender equity in STEM learning spaces. We will also discuss how our flagship initiative - At the Root - is delivering evidence-based resources, training and advocacy in partnership with employers, administrators, and students to drive positive change.
Join us on Wednesday, April 9, at 1 pm (EDT) for this important conversation and discover how we can collectively advance gender equity in STEM education and beyond.
Register now at https://lu.ma/unb2u449.
Accessibility: French interpretation and closed captioning will be available. If you have any other accessibility requests to support your participation, please contact us at communications@couragetoact.ca.
This event is made possible through the generous support of Women and Gender Equality Canada.

