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Attitudes, Values, Behaviors, and Lifestyles | Brief discussion of the current state of student mental health and wellness factors.
- Most students seem healthy and resilient and many get support and support others; nevertheless, many students experience challenges to their wellbeing: the demand for mental health services escalates, and the prevalence of chronic health conditions rises.
- Description of the common measurement tools to assess student health and wellbeing on college campuses. | Mary Knudston, University of California, Santa Cruz; John Kolligian, Princeton University; Lilian Asperin (Moderator), WRNS Studio | 10 minutes | Describe the attitudes, values, behaviors, and lifestyles that student health and wellness providers and universities can encourage. |
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Programs, Services, Facilities | Present issues, trends, and considerations in the delivery of university student health and wellness.
- Behavioral strategies: stress reduction, mindful practices, encouraging positive self-care behaviors, promoting resilience in overcoming failure
- Review of programming across the US Campuses have launched to address issues and trends
- Developing space and programming to promote a sense of community and belonging
- Facilities and campus planning implications | Mary Knudston, University of California, Santa Cruz | 10 minutes | Make the case for investing in programs, services, and facilities that help address stress-related illnesses, mental health conditions. |
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Culture of Wellness | Explore ways to help students develop holistic and long-term healthy lifestyles through a culture of wellness.
- The Intervention Continuum at Princeton includes a range of efforts to improve support for student health and wellbeing across different domains, including contextual influences, such as physical spaces. Our built environment can influence mood, social connection, and learning. | Janet Finnie, Princeton University; Mary Knudston, University of California, Santa Cruz | 10 minutes | Identify ways in which wellness can be integrated into the campus fabric—such as connections to nature, programmed outdoor spaces, and active design strategies—to encourage a culture of wellness. |
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Getting There | Creating a culture of wellness requires an integrated approach to planning, design, and service-provision on campus.
- Include and define a Value Proposition in the Request for Proposal for team selection.
- Enlist stakeholders from across campus.
- Explore cross-programming and dispersion of wellness throughout the campus. | Janet Finnie, Princeton University | 10 minutes | Detail a process to encourage university stakeholders to promote health as a core value in their projects. |