Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 72.81
Liaison Ian Johnson
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

Colorado College
PA-14: Wellness Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Ryan Simmons
VP of People & Workplace Culture
HR
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Does the institution have a wellness program that makes counseling, referral, and wellbeing services available to all students?:
Yes

Does the institution have a wellness and/or employee assistance program that makes counseling, referral, and wellbeing services available to all academic staff?:
Yes

Does the institution have a wellness and/or employee assistance program that makes counseling, referral, and wellbeing services available to all non-academic staff?:
Yes

A brief description of the institution’s wellness and/or employee assistance program(s):

CC offers a variety of wellness programs for students. To begin, the Wellness Resource Center coordinates and integrates efforts to promote health and prevent health problems, including education of campus constituents on a range of wellness-related topics, such as healthy relationships, healthy sexual engagement, alcohol and other substance use and abuse, mental health and life balance. Furthermore, Boetcher Health Center offers students six counseling sessions free of charge.

The college offers an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees (faculty and staff) and their families. EAP provides free counseling to help individuals dealing with marital and parenting issues, anxiety and depression, chemical dependency and co-dependency, grief and loss, job stress, co-worker conflict, child and elder care, etc. Financial and legal services, identity theft, fraud resources, and referral services are also available at discounted rates.

Other wellness offerings include annual biometric health screenings, health assessments with resources for taking action, annual flu shots, presentations on a range of topics like nutrition, physical fitness, stress reduction, personal financial planning, sense of place (as part of our professional development program), etc. Employees and dependents have access to our onsite fitness center and we have two employees trained in basic ergonomic evaluations.


Does the institution prohibit smoking within all occupied buildings owned or leased by the institution?:
Yes

Does the institution restrict outdoor smoking?:
Yes

Does the institution prohibit smoking and tobacco use across the entire campus?:
Yes

A copy of the institution's smoke-free policy:
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The institution’s smoke-free policy:
Website URL where information about the institution’s wellness programs is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Employee Benefits Program website: www.mybensite.com/coloradocollege


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