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ON E PU R P OSE. C A M P U S R E C R E AT I O N
H E A LT H I N IT I AT I V E S
S TA M P S H E A LT H S E RV I C E S
A STRATEGIC APPROACH TO GEORGIA TECH HEALTH AND WELL-BEING The Office of Health & Well-Being (HWB) was established in 2015 after two campuswide task forces, Mental Health and Sexual Violence, determined an Institute-wide approach was necessary to create a safer and healthier campus. HWB is charged with maximizing Georgia Tech’s already strong and effective programs to align opportunities for well-being, mental health, alcohol and drug education, and sexual violence prevention through a coordinated and integrated upstream approach. This approach allows us to promote, nurture, and enrich a community of health, well-being, and caring so students, faculty, and staff can flourish and be fulfilled emotionally, physically, professionally, socially, and spiritually.
Georgia Tech’s health and well-being strategy model.
STR ATEGIC GOA LS
Goal 1: Georgia Tech will use a consistent and integrated voice to promote, nurture, and enrich a community of health, well-being, and caring. Goal 2: Promote, nurture, and enrich a culture of health, well-being, and caring using an integrated and collaborative upstream approach. Goal 3: Health & Well-Being will provide the highest quality of programs and services based on evidence informed and theory driven practices. Goal 4: Health & Well-Being will create and sustain an efficient administrative and opertational structure that also fosters the growth, development, and effectiveness of Health & Well-Being employees.
WH AT WE DO NOW IN T E R PE RSO N A L
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• Piloting Well-Being Activators program for students serving as well-being role models, relay information, motivate individuals, and enhance a culture of health, well-being, and caring • Partner with Cowan-Turner Servant Leadership Program and The Institute for Leadership & Entrepreneurship (ILE) to establish the kindness coin and caring coin initiatives challenging student, faculty, and staff to do random acts of kindness during the month of February and recognize acts of caring in the month of November • Manage peer education program for sexual violence prevention
ORG A NIZ ATIO N A L
• Implement depression screenings during each visit at primary care and women’s clinics • Oversee alcohol and other drug and sexual violence intervention and prevention initiatives including AlcoholEdu, CHOICES, Haven, and a parent handbook • Offer health and well-being presentations and tabling sessions for students, faculty, and staff • Provide advocacy services for those who have been a victim or a survivor of sexual violence • Implement the Campaign for EveryBody promoting positive body image • Support online mental health screenings that helps users quickly and easily determine whether professional consultation might be helpful • Implement Health Trails, well-being education and opportunities for faculty and staff, with the University System of Georgia • Support the Employee Assistance Program (EAP) providing faculty and staff with counseling and work life resources • Partnering with Human Resources to establish Baby Jackets program for faculty and staff going on maternity or paternity leave • Provide students with financial advising
Top to Bottom: Well-Being Activators logo; kindness coin; VOICE advocates logo; demonstration of LiveHealth®; and Certified Healthy logo
E N V IRON M E N TA L
• Created the Healthy Space in the Student Center as a regular home for health-related educational sessions • Piloting Certified Healthy Department program which recognizes departments that are committed to fostering healthy lifestyle choices at work • Provide LiveHealth® Online kiosk, a telemedicine option available for students, faculty, and staff in the Student Center • Piloting a sunscreen access program with dispensers available at select locations on campus • Updated Tobacco Free Campus signs around campus
2017 FISCAL YEAR AT A GLANCE NATIONAL IMPACT 23 memberships on boards and committees 25 presentations at conferences STAMPS PRIMARY CARE 11 clinicians 12 nurses and medical assistants 26,167 patient visits STAMPS PSYCHIATRY 5 psychiatrists 3 care coordinators 6,200 patient visits STAMPS WOMEN’S CLINIC 2 nurse practitioners 1 medical doctor 3,864 patient visits HEALTH INITIATIVES 150+ programs and outreach events 13,000+ students, faculty, and staff members engaged DIETICIAN SERVICES 2 dieticians 762 nutrition patient visits CAMPUS RECREATION 115 hours and 7 days of programs each week 104 events, 29,000+ participants 47 aquatics events, 31,000+ participants
Clockwise from top left: Students participate at the challenge course; Flu shot clinic in Stamps Health Services; intramural sports are played on Stamps fields; and the home of Stamps Health Services and Health Initiatives
FA L L 2017
WH AT WE A RE DOING NE X T PE RSON A L
• Integrating well-being and the five dimensions of wellness into campus partner programming • Expanding upon the 100+ programs currently offered by HWB departments as well as developing and coordinating workshops and programs on resiliency, life skills, sleep, financial literacy, happiness, kindness, mindfulness, and connectivity
I N T E R PE RSON A L
• Developing educational toolkits and workshops to create a caring and health-supporting culture
ORG A N IZ ATION A L
• Creating an integrative care referral system for student access, coordinating resources and services across areas such as HWB, counseling, psychiatry, and academic advising • Considering a common peer education foundation with campus partners, such as BACCHUS • Enhancing the Well-Being Council and campus-wide task forces • Expanding pilot programs to be inclusive of both students, faculty, and staff, including Certified Healthy departments and student organizations, Well-Being Activators, financial advising, and more • Collaborating with the Counseling Center on HealthyMinds • Administering the National College Health Assessment, the College Prescription Drug Survey, and Fruved survey • Implementing monthly messaging initiative that highlights • information and resources on a targeted health topic each month including educational and healthy behavior modules • Integrating predictive analytics into health and well-being program design • Expanding financial literacy programs for students, faculty, and staff • Expanding community and employee nutrition programs • Developing an online web search tool for health and well-being resources • Partnering with the University System of Georgia to create a well-being resources portal for faculty and staff
Top to Bottom: Grand opening of HWB’s Healthy Space in the Student Center; President Peterson with participants at the 2016 President’s Walk; 2016 Employee Health Fair; Yoga for EveryBody event in Fall 2016; and Health Initiatives and Women’s Resource Center staff members on Teal Ribbon Day raising awareness about sexual assault
Health & Well-Being
Executive Director, Suzy Harrington suzy.harrington@gatech.edu
WH AT WE WA NT TO IN V EST IN PE RSON A L
• Provide Gallup StrengthFinders for all incoming freshmen • Provide JOOL™, a biometric, personalized, purpose-driven app that promotes sleep, nutrition, activity, and connectedness through individual feedback and health coaching • Implement a 21st birthday program to promote safer drinking behaviors
I N T E R PE RSON A L
• Create a robust health and well-being peer education program • Expand Well-Being Activators network • Expand Gtlyfe, an app that integrates personal accounts to help students stay organized, improve their studies, and discover campus events, to engage the unengaged • Expand Health Initiatives staff to include a well-being coach to provide group coaching sessions and train and lead a peer education program
O RG A N IZ ATION A L
• Administer Gallup Sharecare Well-Being Index™ survey for students, faculty, and staff • Add resources for Stamps psychiatry clinic to improve student access • Expand Campus Recreation staff with an additional healthy lifestyles engagement specialist to enhance mind and body activity programs • Strategically align with additional campus partners, including C2D2, the Student Center, student organizations, and academic colleges • Contract weekly pet therapy program
E N V IRON M E N TA L
• Provide grants for Certified Healthy departments, organizations, buildings, etc. • Provide outdoor activity stations that encourage play, activity, rest, and socialization • Create a multipurpose well-being space that promotes healthy behaviors, relaxation, and social well-being
Left: HWB Executive Director distributes a Certified Healthy grant; Right: A dietician at Stamps consults with a patient
Campus Recreation
Senior Director, Michael Edwards michael.edwards@crc.gatech.edu
Health Initiatives
Senior Director, Stacy Connell stacy.connell@health.gatech.edu
FA L L 2017 Stamps Health Services
Senior Director, Benjamin Holton, MD benjamin.holton@health.gatech.edu
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