The Pat Walker Well being Heart’s division of Wellness and Well being Promotion has transitioned into three completely different departments within the Division of Pupil Affairs. UARK Wellness is now part of College Recreation; the Sexual and Relationship Violence Heart is now a unit inside Pupil Life within the Dean of College students Workplace; and the Substance Training, Evaluation and Restoration program, beforehand often called Substance Training and Alcohol Assets, stays throughout the Pat Walker Well being Heart.
“These modifications converse to the overarching objective of making and sustaining synergy between departments which have frequent targets within the providers and applications which can be offered to our college students and addresses their various wants,” stated Monica D. Holland, interim affiliate vice chancellor for scholar affairs, govt director of the well being middle and assistant vice-chancellor/affiliate cean of scholars. “College students who make the most of these sources/departments will proceed to obtain holistic care, outreach, assist and programming.”
College Wellness
UARK Wellness, although now formally a unit in College Recreation, stays situated on the second flooring of the Pat Walker Well being Heart. UARK Wellness is a complete program selling wellness and holistic well being by partaking and empowering college students, school and workers via experiential tutorial and non-academic courses, teaching, and supportive providers and actions.
“UREC enthusiastically welcomed UARK Wellness into our division, formalizing our longstanding collaboration. Wellness programming will give attention to campus outreach, training and classroom shows, wellness teaching, and college and workers training and certification,” stated Becky Todd, assistant vice chancellor for scholar affairs and govt director of UREC. “This organizational change will assist strengthen connections inside scholar affairs and tutorial models to serve scholar’s bodily well being and wellness from a holistic method.”
Sexual and Relationship Violence Heart
Now part of Pupil Life within the Dean of College students Workplace, the Sexual and Relationship Violence Heart stays situated within the Garland Heart. The middle supplies sufferer advocacy and training providers associated to sexual and relationship violence, all without charge, they usually be sure to maintain college students a precedence by offering a confidential useful resource.
“The SRVC grew from the efforts and imaginative and prescient of the PWHC, for which we are going to without end be grateful and can proceed ahead with a powerful collaborative spirit between us,” stated Mary Wyandt-Hiebert, director of the Sexual and Relationship Violence Heart. “Constructing on its established robust basis, the SRVC’s transition to Pupil Life underneath the Dean of College students Workplace affords extra alternatives to additional handle sexual and relationship violence throughout campus and, most significantly, to proceed to satisfy our college students’ wants via confidential advocacy providers and teaching programs.”
Substance Training, Evaluation and Restoration Program
The Substance Training, Evaluation and Restoration Program, a unit throughout the Pat Walker Well being Heart, stays situated in the identical suite as UARK Wellness on the second flooring of the Pat Walker Well being Heart. SEAR has modified a couple of of the phrases related to its acronym with a purpose to spotlight a number of the necessary sources which were added for college kids who hunt down assist or training from SEAR. This system now has a licensed skilled psychological well being practitioner as this system coordinator who’s licensed by the state of Arkansas to manage alcohol/drug assessments, in addition to a restoration specialist, who will develop and develop the restoration neighborhood on campus.
“SEAR is worked up about increasing its providers to incorporate doing alcohol and drug assessments, together with offering some restricted remedy providers with a licensed supplier,” stated Jennifer Grim, program coordinator for SEAR. “Our future targets embody providing extra peer-to-peer outreach and training, expanded remedy providers and an expanded restoration neighborhood. Staying part of the PWHC was necessary in order that we might preserve a central location for college kids to get all their well being care wants met.”
All college students, school and workers are inspired to go to UARK Wellness, the Sexual and Relationship Violence Center and the Substance Education, Assessment and Recovery applications’ web sites to study extra.
