Once Upon a Time: Effectively Crafting and Communicating Our Story and Services

Name: 2018 NASPA Well-being and Health Promotion Leadership Conference: A NASPA Strategies Conference
Start: 2018-01-18T13:48:48+00:00
End: 2018-01-20T13:48:48+00:00
Location: Portland, OR

Jessica Greher Traue, director, wellness and health promotion - Bentley University

If you were in line with a trustee, would you be able to effectively communicate the value and impact of wellbeing programs? Often times professionals report on programs and services without highlighting strengths, or the contributions to student development, academic missions and retention. Participants in this session will use Appreciative Inquiry to identify their story, learn practical skills for storytelling, review basic elements for data visualization, and accessible tools to help you bring your story to life.

Using foundational theories to effectively address health promotion topics

Amanda Ayers, senior health educator - Harvard University

Utilizing foundational public health theories and frameworks to guide program development and implementation is a critical piece of effectively addressing topics of health promotion in higher education. During this presentation, participants will learn key tenets of these theories and how to translate them into meaningful practice in their own health promotion work. Participants will also explore how to integrate a holistic wellbeing framework across offices and how to use this framework to effectively promote, prioritize, and practice individual wellbeing.

Using Improvement Science to Accelerate Improvement of Student Well-being and Equity on Our Campuses

Allison Smith, assistant director, population health - New York University

With multisector roots, improvement science is a disciplined approach to address complex problems that integrates problem analysis, methods for developing and testing new ideas, and measurement. Improvement science emphasizes innovation, rapid-cycle testing, and scale in order to generate learning about what changes, in which contexts, produce improvements. Using an interactive workshop format, this session will detail methods and tools to help health promotion professionals accelerate improvement of student health, wellbeing, and equity -- while minimizing risk associated with failed efforts.

Wellness by Design: Planning your Campus

Dennis Swinford, higher education planning practice leader - Goody Clancy

Our campus' are special places providing spaces for our campus community to live, learn, play and love. They can also be spaces that produce poor health, stress, depression, sleep deprivation and anxiety. Recent research reveals that good planning can yield positive results for health and wellness. We will describe how campus planning and our knowledge of physiological and psychological relationship with our environment can be incorporated into building your campus for positive health effects on your campus' community.

Closing the Circle: Identifying a missing piece of bystander intervention

Kevin Saberre Jr., director, fraternity and sorority life - The University of Texas at Dallas

Typical bystander intervention programs on college campuses ask that students report potentially harmful situations to various university entities. UT Dallas recognized the need to provide advocacy and supportive services to students who report harmful situations on behalf of others and may be experiencing vicarious trauma. This session will provide participants with the tools necessary to develop similar programs at their respective campuses by utilizing existing campus resources. This presentation focuses on the philosophy, development, and administration of a large-scale initiative.

Reflections, Trends, and Visions for the Future of College Health and Wellness

Ryan Travia, associate dean of students for wellness - Babson College

A multidisciplinary panel of seasoned college health practitioners and senior administrators share diverse perspectives about the evolution of Health Services, Counseling & Mental Health Services, and Health Promotion, as they relate to the phenomenon of “Wellness”, which has become the operant focus in College Health and Student Affairs. This interactive workshop will empower participants to facilitate greater collaboration across services and envision new ways of uniting, leading, and transforming health and wellness on their campuses.

Orienting New Health Promotion Professionals

Kelly Hogan , director - The University of Notre Dame

This session is designed for new health promotion professionals and those who supervise them. The presentation will provide a primer for new professionals as well as tools and strategies for supervisors to employ in their on-boarding processes.

Social Justice Practices and Health Promotion: A Facilitated Reflection and Conversation

Sonya Satinsky, director, health promotion and prevention services - Princeton University

Social justice perspectives are built into the standards of practice for our profession. However, it can be difficult to match our work to our values. This Mini-Institute will be a facilitated conversation where WHPDs can take the time to engage with evocative ideas about social justice, health behavior, and health promotion. Participants will leave with a self-designed action plan for making small (or large) steps toward aligning their professional practice with promoting equity and inclusion in their communities.

Healthy Detours: A location-based services app to promote healthy choices among college students

Valerie Myers, senior scientist - Klein Buendel Inc.

The Healthy Detours study was a randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of an app for college students that provided real-time, personalized feedback for promoting healthy decision-making for diet, exercise, and sleep. The Healthy Detours app provided person-specific algorithms based on users' lifestyle habits when they “checked-in” using location-based services (LBS) at various locations on or near campus. The app analyzed the data in real-time and provided customized recommendations for healthier options near the user's location.

USC 'Pause for Paws': Impact and Implications of Therapy Dogs on a College Campus

Breezell Miller, intern, USC office for wellness and health promotion - The University of Southern California

Stress and anxiety impact college students' academic performance. University of Southern California (USC) students report stress (27.5%) and anxiety (19.4%) negatively impacting their performance (NCHA, 2016). USC created the 'Pause for Paws' therapy dog program two years ago to help address this problem. Therapy dogs were provided and data collected each week, at various sites on campus, to assess the impact on attendees. This report features the background, contributions, outcomes, and recommendations from 'Pause for Paws'.

Well-being Through Wellness Coaching: Developing Wellness Coaching Programs for Academic Success

Natalie Rella, health promotion specialist - University of Florida

This session will explore campus-based Wellness Coaching programs and identify benefits to using these programs to increase academic success and promote positive behavior change. Using data from internal and external sources, the session will compare and contrast existing university Wellness Programs, including a case study from a large public institution. Participants will analyze Wellness Coaching program structures and effective components in order to generate a plan for developing a Wellness Coaching program at their home institution.

Building and evolving a comprehensive, data-driven Peer Health Educator program

Carla Jackson, health educator - California State Polytechnic University Pomona

This session will outline the development and evolution of a comprehensive Peer Health Educator program. Discussion will cover how the program utilized the CAS (Center for the Advancement of Standards for Higher Education) standards as a springboard to evaluate and improve the program. The development of various evaluation tools will be presented, including a rubric based on the CAS standards. Ideas for how to create a feedback loop based on evaluation, improvement, and innovation will be introduced, and participant discussion encouraged.

Graduate Student Life and Well-Being by Design: Evidenced-based and Data Driven Approaches to Student Success

Matt Helm, director, graduate student life and wellness - Michigan State University

Great educational design combines data, the science of student and academic affairs, health promotion, beauty, and art to produce something higher education didn't know it was missing. In order to effectively design healthy graduate student learning environments, it is incumbent upon graduate school administrators and key student affairs and wellness professionals to work collaboratively to understand and intervene with factors related to a poor quality of student life. This program highlights two innovative well-being models at two different research institutions.

Moving from Wellness to Well-Being and the Center of Higher Education

Glen Sherman, associate vice president and dean of students - William Paterson University

The transition from wellness to well-being implies philosophical significance that has yet to be adequately articulated. Ideas about well-being are rooted in ancient Greek philosophical notions like virtue, happiness and practical wisdom, as well as more current concepts, such as meaning, understanding, social justice, and emancipation. This presentation will explore how these ideas bear upon a broad conception of well-being in higher education, which implies a more centralized role for the concept in higher education's missions and purposes.

Designing Learning Environments that Enhance Student Wellbeing

Patty Hambler, director, health promotion and education - University of British Columbia

Research is demonstrating that subtle shifts within higher education classroom contexts can create a profound impact on student well-being. This interactive workshop will share research, action, and innovations of two Canadian institutions who are creatively engaging faculty members to enhance student well-being. Presenters will highlight outcomes from their respective projects on well-being in learning environments, and strategies for establishing effective partnerships. Participants will create an asset-map of their institutions to consider their opportunities to collaborate and build on this topic.

Exploring Health and Well-being Educational Initiatives for Men of Color

Rory James, director, office of student diversity and inclusion - Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington

Ample studies on the educational and sociocultural experiences of men of color exist (Amutah et al, 2016; Noguera, 2008), however few studies empirically document the deconstruction of masculinity and health practices of Men of Color ages 18-35 from a clinical and higher education administration perspective. Cultural norms, gender roles, and religion shape men's health behaviors, diet, and access to healthcare. This panel highlights the cultural nuances that impact Men of Color health outcomes and perspectives—specifically focusing on our outreach to collegiate men.

Shifting into Resilience - Creating the Kent State of Wellness

Melissa Celko, director - Kent State University

How do you build wellbeing into a community? Kent State University has been asking that question; the result is a university level initiative, the Kent State of Wellness. This session will focus on the roadmap, data collection, best practice tools and collaboration breakthroughs that resulted in a three-year strategic plan that encompasses every area of the university and every single human on its campuses. The results and the learnings are an insight into what makes a community thrive.

BUILDing Well-being at Simon Fraser University: Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Physical Space

Rosie Dhaliwal, associate director health promotion - Simon Fraser University

Literature clearly demonstrates the impact of the built environment on health. Physical environments within education also have a significant impact on student success and well-being.With literature and qualitative research findings at Simon Fraser University (SFU), key features of physical spaces that impact student learning and well-being have been identified and web resources developed. Participants will hear about unique inter-disciplinary collaborations at SFU and be invited to consider strategies for similar collaborations to enhance student well-being through the built environment.

Impact of Use of Meditation App on Student Success

Carole Schaffer, director of organizational learning student affairs and senior associate director, housing - Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

The concepts of mindfulness and meditation practices are receiving increased attention as daily solution to the stressors that life continues to share. For college students, learning and utilizing meditation techniques could have layers of positive impact for not only academic and personal development success, but for the skill building of a tool that will provide life long benefit. Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo entered a partnership with a national mediation app to study the impacts on student and staff sense of purpose

Using CAS Guidelines to Integrate Varying Guidance into Health Promotion Strategic Planning

Paula Adams, associate director, health promotion - Washington State University

CAS Standards can serve as a foundational tool to integrate varying sources of guidance (e.g. Healthy Campus 2020, Standards of Practice for Health Promotion in Higher Education, and the Okanagan Charter) into effective strategic planning. This session will include an introduction to CAS Standards, a discussion of the relationship between CAS Standards and other forms of guidance, and a review of applied examples from different campus contexts.

Exploring the Role of Wellness Liaisons to Special Student Populations

Alex F. Howard, director, wellness and prevention services - Appalachian State University

The purpose of this session is to describe the process undertaken to develop intentional services to better identify and support the needs of special student populations attending a rural, primarily-white institution in the mountains of northwest North Carolina. This session will explore the use of both quantitative and qualitative data to identify special populations and their needs, and the subsequent strategies employed to better serve these diverse student populations.

“Navigating health promotion: your role in creating a health promoting campus”

Paula Swinford, director, student health promotion - University of Southern California

Are you interested in exploring other paths to student health and well-being that are not just about prevention and more health care? Want to play a role on your campus in health promotion efforts? Have you ever questioned what the students, as a community, would do if they wanted to enhance student well-being? Have you wondered about when to use wellness, health or well-being? Whether you consider yourself a new and seasoned professionals, come explore how chart a course towards a health promoting campus and describe how health promotion is much more than prevention. This session reviews key concepts of health promotion for the student affairs professionals and provides framework to move forward on your campus.Part I: Beginning - making connections and sorting ideas Who are you? A discussion about communication, confusion, responsibilities, priorities, and their role in health promotion Part II: Where we've been - prevention is more than 'just educate them.' Part III: Where we are going - engaging the people, applying data, actualizing models and changing infrastructures conversation about the infrastructure and skills needed to advance the work of health promotion in the higher education setting. ucture

Changing Tides: Shifting from a Health Education Approach to Health Promotion Framework

Kelly White, health promotion strategist - University of British Columbia

With a move toward a settings-based and systems approach to health promotion in higher education, student affairs professionals who have historically worked within a health education framework, may find the focus of their job changing. How can postsecondary institutions start to make the necessary shifts to position descriptions, portfolio priorities, and work processes to better align with a robust health promotion approach? This session will share what this shift might look like and unpack some of the questions that need to be explored.

Healthy Campus Initiative: One Campus’ Journey Toward Health and Wellness Culture Change

Julie Weissbuch Allina, director of health promotion - Portland State University

This session will describe the process in which Portland State University started and continues its Healthy Campus Initiative. During this session participants will:• be exposed to a Steering Committee/Task Force structure• understand the value of the Socioecological Framework and Social Movement Theory• learn how to move health and wellness priorities by encouraging culture change• how to effectively use data to move health priorities forward

Food insecurity on college campuses: Comprehensive, innovative approaches to meet students’ needs

Andrea Dunbar, director of student support - School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Food insecurity among college students is an ongoing concern despite the increasing commonality of food pantries on college campuses, and is associated with negative outcomes related to academic achievement and personal well-being (Dubick, Mathews, & Cady, 2016). This presentation will offer unique developments to comprehensively address food insecurity at a small, private urban institution, with a focus on decreasing stigma and enhancing the utility of available supports, and which may be particularly attractive for schools with limited resources.

The Journey of Women of Color: Navigating Health and Education

Carmen Jones, graduate research assistant - Iowa State University

This study explores health as it intersects race and gender for higher education students. Voices of Women of Color (WoC) are highlighted through self-definition and lived experiences. Health identity allows interpretation of individual and community engagement with well-being. This study will define health identity as self-conception of health and its impact on actions and behaviors, benefiting those on their educational journey who are redefining what it means to live well and those seeking to engage in discussions about health status.

Using Data Visualization to Tell Your College Health Story

Alicia Baker, health promotion specialist - University of Florida

This session aims to identify common data visualization tools and describe how these tools may be used to best communicate your college health story with campus and community stakeholders. Data visualization simplifies data values, promotes understanding of data, and communicates important concepts and ideas. Specific visualization tools will be discussed. Participants will also brainstorm the positive and negative considerations associated with data visualization tool selection. This session will also identify common errors when visualizing data and discuss best practices.

Preparing for a Healthy Campus and Healthy Student: Pre-Service and In-Service Strategies

David Anderson, professor emeritus - George Mason University

Campus leaders typically aspire to having a healthy campus and, ultimately, healthy students. How well prepared are new and seasoned professionals? How up-to-date are they with the knowledge and best practices on issues such as stress, sleep, sex, spirituality and substance abuse (among others)? This session reviews national studies of student affairs professionals and examines academic preparation programs on wellness issues. Participants will discuss proposed strategies for elevating wellness competencies throughout campus leadership initiatives to attain a "Well U."

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2018 NASPA Well-being and Health Promotion Leadership Conference: A NASPA Strategies Conference

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