HealthEU is a broad-based effort to attach college students, school and workers with obligatory sources to help their wellness and well-being.
With a brand new educational yr, Elon College has launched HealthEU, a complete effort to help the well being and well-being of scholars, school and workers.
HealthEU offers entry to sources, academic instruments and help for all members of the college neighborhood whereas cultivating private wellness values they’ll depend on even after leaving the college. The trouble features a sturdy web site at www.elon.edu/healtheu that can proceed to be up to date with new sources 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 is usually a chief in making certain folks have what they should be protected, wholesome and fulfilled,” stated Vice President for Scholar Life Jon Dooley. “HealthEU is designed to attach college students, school and workers with the broad vary of sources that Elon has now and can proceed to construct out within the coming years. It’s a complete effort that can foster schooling, relationships and engagement.”
HealthEU is rooted in Elon’s Boldy Elon 10-year strategic plan, which was launched in spring 2020. Included inside the plan’s Thrive theme, the HealthEU initiative was developed with the aim of Elon serving as a nationwide mannequin for applications, analysis and dialogues selling resilience, belonging and all points of lifelong private wellness.
The preliminary work that will result in the launch of HealthEU predates the launch of Boldly Elon. Elon initiated a renewed give attention to well being and well-being beginning with the Presidential Job Drive 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 challenge.
These efforts are mirrored within the six dimensions of HealthEU that handle the well-being of the complete particular person. The six dimensions are:
- Group Effectively-Being
- Emotional Effectively-Being
- Monetary Effectively-Being
- Bodily Effectively-Being
- Goal Effectively-Being
- Social Effectively-Being
HealthEU advances the “Act-Belong-Commit” framework that promotes constructive bodily and psychological well being and which the university adopted in 2019. The ABC mannequin urges folks to be lively, seek for a way of belonging and decide to a trigger as a way to promote happiness and good psychological well being.
A mannequin that’s “For You, For Us, For Our Group,” HealthEU features a visible identification to assist college students, school and workers acknowledge methods to faucet into its sources. Central to that identification is a lotus flower, which in lots of cultures is an emblem of resilience. The roots of the lotus are under water, with its stem rising by way of the mud to bloom simply above the water’s floor.
The brand new HealthEU web site is a handy software to attach with the number of choices that fall beneath the HealthEU umbrella. Every dimension has its personal searchable database of varied initiatives, occasions and academic sources that may help college students, school and workers in advancing their well being and well-being in that space.
The web site additionally contains the latest news and updates round well being and well-being on the college in addition to a listing of upcoming HealthEU events.
Additionally new this yr is the extension and growth of the college’s partnership with TimelyCare, a service for college students that gives help from wherever in the US, 7 days per week, 12 months a yr. College students provided 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 provided this yr are scheduled counseling, well being teaching, group classes and entry to psychiatry companies. These companies are provided along with present in-person companies provided with no consumer charges by way of the college’s Counseling Providers and Scholar Well being Providers. College students can be taught extra about TimelyCare and create a free account here.
The HealthEU initiative will proceed to develop within the coming years as Elon achieves extra of the objectives 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 pupil well being companies and college doctor
- Ann Bullock, dean of the Dr. Jo Watts Williams Schhool of Schooling, professor of schooling and director of trainer schooling
- Stacie Dooley, assistant dean of profession and pupil 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 faculty applications and director of PACE program
- Caroline Ketcham, professor of train science
- Susan Kirkland, affiliate vp for finance and administration
- Danielle Lake, director of design considering and affiliate professor
- Larry Mellinger, director of campus recreation and wellness
- Paul Miller, affiliate provost for educational excellence and operations and professor of train science
- Sylvia Muñoz, assistant dean of scholars and director of the Heart for Race, Ethnicity, and Range Schooling
- Melissa Murfin, affiliate professor, analysis coordinator and director of curriculum and instruction for the doctor assistant research program, director of schooling methods for the Faculty of Well being Sciences
- Roselee Papandrea Taylor, affiliate director of college communications for admissions communications
- Jana Lynn Patterson, affiliate vp for pupil life, dean of scholars and assistant professor
- Brandy Propst, director of Elon 1010 and assistant director of educational advising
- Kelli Shuman, affiliate vp for human sources and chief human sources officer
- Jeff Stein, vp 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 pupil care and outreach
- Charlotte Williams, affiliate director of campus recreation and wellness for pupil wellness
- Kathy Ziga, interim director of educational advising
