Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 74.81
Liaison Kelli O'Day
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

University of California, Davis
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.42 / 3.00 Sue Vang
Engagement and Zero Waste Program Manager
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:
12,848

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
3,424

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
26.65

1st program 

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
Wellness Ambassadors Program

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
Wellness Ambassadors serve as representatives of the UC Davis Staff and Faculty Health and Well-being program while supporting and engaging their colleagues in wellness messaging, programs, activities and resources.

Wellness Ambassadors attend quarterly trainings, market, publicize and recruit staff and faculty participation in campus health and well-being activities and programming, identify potential ideas, strategies, and programs to enhance well-being and a healthy work culture/environment, develop health and well-being initiatives in their unit, share success stories and metrics with the Staff and Faculty Health and Well-being Program, and help manage Activity Release Waivers where applicable.

Currently there are 144 trained Wellness Ambassadors representing 103 different departments on campus, with 3,424 subscribers to the Wellness listserv. Some of those subscribers were added during one of the seven Healthy UC Davis Initiative tabling events held on the Davis campus during the last fiscal year.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
All campus employees are the target audience for Wellness Ambassadors.

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
144

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
52

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
0.17

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
40

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :

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2nd Program

Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
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A brief description of the employee educators program (2nd program):
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A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
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Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):
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Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):
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Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (2nd program):
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Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (2nd program):
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Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (2nd program):
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Additional Programs 

A brief description of all other employee peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Number of trained employee educators (all other programs):
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Number of weeks, on average, the employee educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
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Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (all other programs):
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Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all other programs):
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Part 2. Educator hours per employee served by a peer-to-peer program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):
40

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.00

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Wellness Ambassadors hold varying events throughout the year depending on the individual ambassador, and the amount of time worked by each educator is likely underreported and goes beyond the minimum 10 minutes per week required by the program. The wellness listserve has 3,424 subscribers overall.

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