Student Staff Wellness: Ensuring Wellness is Priority #1 - Brandon Smith and Ian Crookshank
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Transcript of Student Staff Wellness: Ensuring Wellness is Priority #1 - Brandon Smith and Ian Crookshank
Welcome to #ACPA16 in Montreal, we are glad you are here!Bienvenue à #ACPA16 à Montréal, nous sommes heureux que vous soyez là!
Consider:#ACPA16 provides an opportunity to discus global concepts in higher, post-secondary, and tertiary education. Please remember that not everyone in the room is from the same country nor works within the same system of higher or tertiary education. We invite you to use language that welcomes all participants to the conversation.
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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
cc: V. Sharma - https://www.flickr.com/photos/34011797@N04
Recent Headlines
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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evaluation using the CrowdCompass• Commit:
– What do you commit to doing as a result of participating in this session? Tweet your commitment using #ACPA16
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