HealthEU is a broad-based effort to attach college students, school and workers with obligatory assets to assist their wellness and well-being.
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With a brand new educational yr, Elon College has launched HealthEU, a complete effort to assist the well being and well-being of scholars, school and workers.
HealthEU offers entry to assets, instructional instruments and assist for all members of the college neighborhood whereas cultivating private wellness values they will depend on even after leaving the college. The hassle features a sturdy web site at www.elon.edu/healtheu that can proceed to be up to date with new assets and assist join college students, school and workers with well being and wellness alternatives.
“Private and neighborhood well being and well-being are more and more vital to all members of the college neighborhood, and Elon could be a chief in guaranteeing individuals have what they must be secure, wholesome and fulfilled,” mentioned Vice President for Scholar Life Jon Dooley. “HealthEU is designed to attach college students, school and workers with the broad vary of assets that Elon has now and can proceed to construct out within the coming years. It’s a complete effort that can foster training, relationships and engagement.”
HealthEU is rooted in Elon’s Boldy Elon 10-year strategic plan, which was launched in spring 2020. Included throughout the plan’s Thrive theme, the HealthEU initiative was developed with the purpose of Elon serving as a nationwide mannequin for applications, analysis and dialogues selling resilience, belonging and all facets of lifelong private wellness.
The preliminary work that may result in the launch of HealthEU predates the launch of Boldly Elon. Elon initiated a renewed concentrate on well being and well-being beginning with the Presidential Activity Power on Social Local weather and Out-of-Class Engagement and persevering with with the Scholar Wellness and Effectively-Being Work Group and the JED Campus venture.
These efforts are mirrored within the six dimensions of HealthEU that handle the well-being of your entire particular person. The six dimensions are:
- Group Effectively-Being
- Emotional Effectively-Being
- Monetary Effectively-Being
- Bodily Effectively-Being
- Objective Effectively-Being
- Social Effectively-Being
HealthEU advances the “Act-Belong-Commit” framework that promotes constructive bodily and psychological well being and which the college adopted in 2019. The ABC mannequin urges individuals to be energetic, seek for a way of belonging and decide to a trigger to be able to promote happiness and good psychological well being.
A mannequin that’s “For You, For Us, For Our Group,” HealthEU features a visible id to assist college students, school and workers acknowledge methods to faucet into its assets. Central to that id is a lotus flower, which in lots of cultures is a logo of resilience. The roots of the lotus are beneath water, with its stem rising via the mud to bloom simply above the water’s floor.
The brand new HealthEU web site is a handy instrument to attach with the number of choices that fall beneath the HealthEU umbrella. Every dimension has its personal searchable database of assorted initiatives, occasions and academic assets that may help college students, school and workers in advancing their well being and well-being in that space.
The web site additionally consists of the newest information and updates round well being and well-being on the college in addition to a listing of upcoming HealthEU occasions.
Additionally new this yr is the extension and enlargement of the college’s partnership with TimelyCare, a service for college students that gives assist from anyplace in america, 7 days per week, twelve months a yr. College students supplied overwhelmingly constructive suggestions to a pilot providing of TimelyCare through the 2021-22 educational yr, with greater than 1,000 Elon college students accessing companies.
New companies supplied this yr are scheduled counseling, well being teaching, group classes and entry to psychiatry companies. These companies are supplied along with current in-person companies supplied with no person charges via the college’s Counseling Companies and Scholar Well being Companies. College students can study extra about TimelyCare and create a free account right here.
The HealthEU initiative will proceed to develop within the coming years as Elon achieves extra of the targets outlined within the Thrive theme of Boldly Elon. The college is shifting ahead with planning for expanded neighborhood wellness, recreation and well being heart within the coronary heart of campus that can possible embrace the development of a brand new facility.
Supporting the HeathEU effort are members of the Council on Wellness and Effectively-Being:
- Ginette Archinal, medical director of scholar well being companies and college doctor
- Ann Bullock, dean of the Dr. Jo Watts Williams Schhool of Schooling, professor of training and director of trainer training
- Stacie Dooley, assistant dean of profession and scholar improvement, Elon Legislation
- Marcus Elliott, director of the Odyssey Program
- Jenny Gonzalez, inside designer
- Anita Hodnett, director of counseling companies
- Kathy Harrison, school/workers well being and wellness clinic supervisor
- René Jackson, affiliate director of profession companies for graduate college applications and director of PACE program
- Caroline Ketcham, professor of train science
- Susan Kirkland, affiliate vice chairman for finance and administration
- Danielle Lake, director of design pondering and affiliate professor
- Larry Mellinger, director of campus recreation and wellness
- Paul Miller, affiliate provost for tutorial excellence and operations and professor of train science
- Sylvia Muñoz, assistant dean of scholars and director of the Middle for Race, Ethnicity, and Variety Schooling
- Melissa Murfin, affiliate professor, analysis coordinator and director of curriculum and instruction for the doctor assistant research program, director of training methods for the College of Well being Sciences
- Roselee Papandrea Taylor, affiliate director of college communications for admissions communications
- Jana Lynn Patterson, affiliate vice chairman for scholar life, dean of scholars and assistant professor
- Brandy Propst, director of Elon 1010 and assistant director of educational advising
- Kelli Shuman, affiliate vice chairman for human assets and chief human assets officer
- Jeff Stein, vice chairman for strategic initiatives and assistant professor of English
- Amanda Tapler, senior lecturer in public well being research
- Joshua Tillotson, captain, Campus Security and Police
- Paul Tongsri, director of scholar care and outreach
- Charlotte Williams, affiliate director of campus recreation and wellness for scholar wellness
- Kathy Ziga, interim director of educational advising
