Wellness Services
Who We Are
Vision
The vision of Wellness Services is to be a premier health promotion program, providing comprehensive wellness opportunities that foster and support healthy behavior, lifestyles and learning for the campus community.
Mission
Wellness Services promotes the health and well-being of students, faculty and staff through the delivery of programs, services and multidisciplinary interventions that enable each to accomplish their academic and career goals, as well as enhance personal development. Using evidence-based best practices, a holistic approach to health promotion and prevention is used for a diverse campus population, in order to facilitate a socially just, healthy learning community and work environment. These practices involve opportunities to foster awareness and skills, as well as address the environmental context in which health behavior decisions are made.
Core Values
The following are values and beliefs that guide Wellness Services’ employees and the community they serve:
- Balance of body, mind and spirit
- Collaboration
- Community
- Empowerment
- Humor
- Integrity, honesty and mutual respect
- Interconnectedness of individuals and environments
- Personal and professional development, continuous improvement
- Professional excellence, quality, responsiveness, accountability and ethical practice
- Provision of culturally-sensitive health services
- Student involvement
Health Promotion/Wellness Defined
Health promotion and wellness, although technically having different definitions, are used interchangeably. Simply put, these terms are defined as taking an individual or an organization to an optimal level of health.
Wellness Services defines wellness and health promotion as an active process, a choice and a way of living that is sensitive and responsive to all of the dimensions of the body, mind and spirit. It is achieved through a lifetime of renewing and enhancing our greatest self by exercising all of the dimensions of our nature regularly, and consistently, in wise and balanced ways. Programming and services provide the opportunity to explore, adopt and sustain healthful patterns, as well as promote the wise use of health services available. A sense of responsibility for personal and community health is fostered, as the gap between health information and health behaviors is lessened.
Wellness Services operates in accordance with the standards of practice developed by the American College Health Association (ACHA).
