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Student Staff WellnessEnsuring Wellness is Priority #1

• Brandon Smith, Residence Life & Education Coordinator

• Ian Crookshank, Director, Housing and Residence Life

Agenda

• Outcomes/Takeaways• Why Wellness?• 4 Priorities• The Pilot• Results• What's Next

Session Outcomes• Importance of wellness culture

to staff and department• Need for support of student

staff and leader well-being.• Take it back

Why Wellness?

• 1 on 1 chats with Director• Incident Management• Staff Incidents & Impacts• Expansion in response

Change before you have to - Jack Welch

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Student

Staff Everything Else

You Academics

Staff

How did we do it?• Pilot• Assessment• Recruitment 2015• August Training• Expanded Program• Assessment

Assessment Methods• Responses to the assessment

tool• One on One Meetings• Feedback from Focus Groups

and Team Leads

Over the past 4 weeks how often did you feel…Happy

Happ

y

3.8 4 4.2 4.4 4.6 4.8 5 5.2 5.4

Total Mean

15-16 q3 Mean

15-16 Q2 Mean

15-16 Q1 Mean

14-15 Q4 Mean

14-15 Q3 Mean

Self Reported Stressors

1415 Q333%5%

39%11%11%

1516 Q30%8%

42%42%8%

*** Live in Staff Only

Low Trends

• Means in the Following:• External/Societal Impacts• Existential Challenges• Balancing Responsibilities

• 1516 – Q2 : lowest mean scores ATB

High Trends

• Means in the Following:• Community and Relationships• Interest in Life• Enjoyment of the role

• Decline in financial stress

Themes• Student Staff are generally happy in their role• Challenging and Rewarding• Team is more open with their needs• Most recent survey had greatest variation in

responses• Qualitative responses

Implications

What's next?• Targeted programming by staff

group• Incorporation into our summer

programming• Peer led wellness

Take Away• In small groups:• Is this an evident or emerging issue on

your campus?• What do you feel would need to be

prioritized?• What would you need to do to create

change in the priority areas?• Champions, Buy-in Needed, Audience

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a

new order of things – Niccolo Machiavelli

Thank you and Merci

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