Developing a Comprehensive Wellness, Engagement and Prevention Program Tailored for UW Oshkosh

1. Developing a Comprehensive Wellness, Engagement and Prevention Program Tailored for UW Oshkosh .

2. Wellness Affects Every Student • Administrators are called upon daily to deal with a growing number of issues on campus that affect not only individual students’ health but the broader campus community. • These issues include: • Alcohol • Tobacco and other drug use • Violence • Unsafe sexual behavior • Suicidal ideation • Depression • Stress • Eating disorders • While not every student who attends a college campus will be affected directly by these issues, most will be indirectly impacted by the consequences of such problems. • NASPA, Leadership for a Healthy Campus: An Ecological Approach, date

3. Wellness Promotes Retention • Multiple variants influence college students’ academic achievement. One variable that affects all students is health. • Students regularly report health factors as high on the list of issues affecting their academic performance. • It is common knowledge among student affairs and health professionals that there is a correlation between students’ health, academic achievement, and completion of a degree. • Given these facts, institutional efforts to ensure a healthy campus environment can have an impact on student success and potentially affect retention. • NASPA, Leadership for a Healthy Campus: An Ecological Approach, date

4. Culture and Leadership are Key • To successfully address the health of today’s college students, the focus must move beyond individuals and their behaviors to establishing a healthy campus community. • Strong leadership and deliberate action by student affairs professionals, especially the senior student affairs administrator, is required to achieve this goal. (NASPA, Leadership for a Healthy Campus: An Ecological Approach, date)

5. Safe Campus Committee • Charged by VC Student Affairs • Review what we have been doing • Tweak what we do in the short term • Propose a vision for moving forward • Involved: Counseling Center, DOS, Residence Life, UP, OSA, Health Center, OPD, Oshkosh FD, Christine Ann, Reach • SAMHSA Logic Model • VC presentation to BOR

6. Results Strategies Intermediate- Term Outcomes Long-Term Outcomes Providers Activities Timeline/ Target Groups Short-Term Outcomes AODA Ability to identify risky situation UWO identity as a safer and more secure environment Knowledge of risky situations Sexual/Dating Violence Awareness of consequences of risky behavior /situations. Decisions to intervene in situations that pose a threat to and individual or community Sense of Community On Campus Residential Safety Understanding of community expectations for responding to risky situations or behavior Sense of Responsibility Use of campus safety resources Off Campus Residential Safety Sense of Safety Electronic Safety Knowledge of safety resources & Steps to take Retention Mental Health Bias Incidents UW Oshkosh Campus Safety Model

7. Results Strategies Intermediate- Term Outcomes Long-Term Outcomes Providers Activities Timeline/ Target Group Short-Term Outcomes CVPP coord. CARE/MenCARE Step Up Res. Life Odyssey DOS Greeks Reeve Programming Athletics First Year Experience Reach edu CADASI edu -Odyssey small group -CAs training and CD sem -Bulletin Brds -Women’s Center -One Red Cup -TBTN -Fall DVAM speaker -Tunnel of Opp’n -CARE posters & brochures -CARE rotating tables -CARE pres, -Clothesline Proj -SAAM speaker -Classroom infusion Freshman Residence life Hall residents All campus Community/campus Reeve/Blackhawk Classrooms Community/Campus Knowledge of sexual and dating violence definitions Ability to identify perpetrator behavior UWO identity as a safer and more secure environment Empathy towards victim • Increase support for victim • Increase support for victim Sense of Community Knowledge of perpetrator behavior Sense of Responsibility Knowledge of expectations to stop student from becoming a victim Sense of Safety Decisions to intervene in situation. Retention Awareness of referrals Increase referrals Sexual/Dating Violence Prevention

8. UW OSHKOSH NOW

9. Lack of Connection • Efforts are duplicated • Resources insufficient/staff overwhelmed • Not maximizing data to target interventions (NSSE, OSES, Climate, EBI, CORE, MapWorks) • Students don’t “hear” our message • We have exemplary safety, wellness, support and engagement resources, but… • we are not realizing that potential AND we are not “telling our story” adequately

10. Lost opportunity for a horizontal distinctiveness • Brand Promise to Our Students: • Campus culture drives safety/wellness • Safety/wellness matter to parents • Parents matter to recruitment • Engagement/Institutional support drive institutional commitment • All these factors drive retention

11. Programming “Silos” Program Program Program

12. No Silos/No System

13. An Integrated System

14. Words Matter: STOP THE HATE, Bias Incident Reporting Listening Matters: Gatekeeper Training, UMATTER Mentors • Success Matters: • UARC, CAR, PALS

15. Vision • U MATTER will promote an involved community at UW Oshkosh, where you, your actions, your thoughts and your perspectives MATTER

16. Short Term Improve the System we have Make programs more cohesive Tell a clear story (U MATTER) STEP Interns, SAMHSA resources to hire marketing coordinator Charge responsibility for programs Not sustainable for any of us End of grant, STEP program will end We are all pretty maxed out

17. Long Term Build a Better System Divisional/Institutional strategic planning Durable/accountable consortium Position descriptions include consortium Sustainable infrastructure (personnel) Build in Program Evaluation U Matter Mentors First Year Experience More grant funding Prevention/Wellness Office