Resources
Wellness Tips
2021 BHAC Summit Wellness Tips
Toolkits
The below toolkits are a compilation of resources to assist your efforts:
Health and Wellness Guide for Students
There's a Better Way Podcast: Organizational Wellness
Special Report: The United States of Stress
Center for Disease Control's Worksite Health Scorecard
Obesity in the U.S., Fighting the Epidemic Resource Guide
Introduction to Medicare & Medicaid video
Tobacco Cessation from the CDC
Tobacco free workplace toolkit from the American Cancer Society
Stress at the Workplace from NIOSH
Physical Activity at the Workplace
Fit Friendly Worksite from AHA
Diabetes at Work from National Diabetes Education Program
Stop Diabetes at Work from ADA
Prevent Heart Disease and Stroke Toolkit from CDC
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
National Wellness Challenge: Building a Healthy Campus
The votes are in and congratulations are in order for the following universities in our 2020 National Wellness Challenge. Please join us in congratulating our colleagues from the following institutions:
- - 1st place: Ohio University
- - 2nd place: North Carolina State University
- - 3rd place: University of Utah
A $100 Amazon gift card will be awarded for first place and $50 gift cards for 2nd and 3rd place for each institution's wellness programming. Congratulations!
Interested in participating in the National Wellness Challenge next year? The Challenge is an annual, innovative wellness program/activity that promotes one or more of the following wellness areas using innovative strategies, involving faculty, staff and students in all universities and colleges across the United States. Read more about the guidelines and areas of participation:
- - Physical wellness (for example, consumption of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables per day, accumulating 150 minutes of physical activity per week or 8 hours of sleep of night)
- - Mental Health (for example, happiness or reducing stress through deep breathing/mindfulness/resiliency)
- - Financial wellness (for example, budgeting)
- - Environmental wellness (for example, recycling drive, tree planting/garden)
- - Social wellness (for example, can or shoe drive, volunteering in community)
Check out our 2019 winners and other past submissions.
- - First Place: University of Iowa
- - Second Place: Meredith College
- - Third Place: Ball State University
Other examples of past submissions:
The Knowledge Bank
The fourth Building Healthy Academic Communities National Summit took place at The Ohio State University on April 30 and May 1, 2019. This conference archive contains plenary speaker and presenter slides as well as posters. Our newest BHAC Knowledge Bank offers presentations and submissions from this highly successful event. Read it here.