Priority 2: Health & Well-being

We offer comprehensive programs aimed at nurturing the physical, mental, and emotional health of our Golden Flash community.

Divisional Goal 2.1 – Create a supportive environment that facilitates college completion by proactively addressing students’ academic, personal, and emotional challenges.

Parents and Families Engagement will conduct a year-end assessment resulting in 75% of parents, families, and supporters correctly identifying at least three key academic dates, resources, or services and understand their significance.
Counseling and Psychological Services will increase by 20% the number of students receiving more than six sessions reducing barriers to care through improved service marketing, as measured by caseload and length-of-stay data.
Counseling and Psychological Services will seamlessly connect students who need longer term, more specialized, or higher levels of acute care to external providers, resulting in approximately a 10% increase in student satisfaction with referrals, as measured by the annual Client Satisfaction Survey.

The Center for Sexual and Relationship Violence Support Services will develop a comprehensive advocacy model that supports survivors throughout their healing process that will increase the persistence rate from 70% to 75%.

Counseling and Psychological Services will seek the International Association of Counseling Centers (IACS) accreditation after having completed all requisite infrastructure development (i.e., updated policies and procedures, refined clinical service delivery model, completed insurance credentialing, expanded training program) and the application process. This will be measured by a completed application that is in the process of being evaluated.

To increase resilience among first-year students, the Office of the Dean of Students will implement a campus-wide mental wellness curriculum and related programming. Increased resilience will be measured through the Student Life Study.
Counseling and Psychological Services will increase student participation in workshops and psychoeducational programs by 25%, as measured by online and in-person attendance and postworkshop self-assessments, through revised program delivery and collaboration with campus partners.
The Recreation and Wellness Center will renew the Exercise is Medicine® On Campus designation and expand related programming to promote physical activity and improve well-being among students, faculty, and staff.

Increase the percentage of students who can correctly identify resources and reporting options under Title IX by 25%, as measured through annual campus climate survey results and pre-/post-program assessments.
The Center for Student Involvement will have created a series of co-curricular pathway programs that guide students towards a better understanding of themselves and others, and how to make a community impact.
Recreation and Wellness Services will implement at least three Exercise is Medicine® On Campus components, including clinical referral integration, student-led wellness events, and physical activity prescription education for student health professionals, to promote campus-wide engagement with movement as a vital sign of well-being.

The Center for Student Involvement will establish an acknowledgement of completion attached to the cocurricular pathways programs to celebrate the achievements of students who complete the program.
Recreation and Wellness Services will evaluate the Exercise is Medicine® On Campus program’s effectiveness by collecting participation, referral, and satisfaction data from students and partners, and use the findings to refine strategies and apply for an EIM Gold or Silver level recognition.