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

STARS v2.2

University of California, Davis
PA-14: Wellness Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Camille Kirk
Director of Sustainability and Campus Sustainability Planner
Office of Sustainability
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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):

UC Davis Student Health and Counseling Services or SHCS provides a wide variety of medical, counselling and wellness services to all registered UC Davis students. Counseling Services under SHCS provides student-centered mental health services, advocacy, outreach, and consultation to promote psychological well-being and academic success.

Free teaching kitchen (cooking classes), recovery resources and Health Education and Promotion (HEP) are some of the programs under Wellness Services. HEP focuses on using a dynamic public health approach to foster and build environments, institutional practices and a campus culture that promote student success and lifelong well-being. The four content areas under health education and promotion includes Sexual Well-Being; Mental Well-Being; Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) Risk Reduction; and Physical Well-Being (which includes nutrition, unintentional injury prevention and physical activity).

The UC Davis Staff and Faculty Health and Well-being Program (SFHWB) was launched during the summer of 2016 based on recommendations presented to the Chancellor through Staff Assembly and the Academic Senate. These included:
- Assigning a budget for ongoing assessment, environmental support, incentives, communication, education and evaluation;
- Hiring a Worksite Health Program Manager to direct the initiative and harmonize campus and UC Davis Health wellness efforts; and
- Aligning UC Davis Health and campus resources to coordinate an integrated, comprehensive worksite health and wellness program that covers Sacramento, Davis and remote sites.
The SFHWB Program was developed as an initiative under Occupational Health Services to develop, promote and support a thriving culture of health and well-being throughout the UC Davis community so that our staff and faculty can learn, teach, innovate and contribute to society.

Goals of the SFHWB Program are aligned with those of Occupational Health Services, wherein successes are measured in part by low worker injury and illness. This is accomplished through effective integration of progressive safety initiatives and health and well-being programs.
Vision: UC Davis is the healthiest community in the nation
Mission: Develop, promote and support a thriving culture of health and well-being throughout the UC Davis community
We will accomplish this by:
-Creating comprehensive, integrative and collaborative leading practice programs
-Providing staff and faculty with support, information and tools to engage in healthy behaviors and to prevent injury and illness
-Advocating for policies, institutional practices and a built environment that makes the healthier choice the easier choice
-Harnessing the intellectual capacity of the University of California to develop research and practices to continuously improve the well-being of our community
-Aligning and leveraging resources to strategically manage risk and reduce cost
Value Statements:
-Health and well-being can be learned and practiced to continually enhance quality of life; Individual health and well-being includes awareness, commitment and open-mindedness; Community health and well-being includes collaboration, integrity and inclusion.

Further, UC Davis WorkLife provides programs, policies, referrals and education that enable employees and students to be effective at work, school and home. WorkLife encompasses dependent care and family services, occupational success, holistic well-being, financial support, workplace flexibility, events and community involvement.

The WorkLife program uses different means to reach employees, including activities and presentations. "WorkLIfe on the Road" visits departments and discusses worklife integration, holistic wellbeing and available services. WorkLife and Wellness also provides the Lactation Support Program with quarterly classes, monthly support groups, private lactation consultation and 69 lactation rooms with hospital grade pumps.

Additionally, the Academic and Staff Assistance Program offers confidential, cost free assessment, intervention, consultation and referral services to all UC Davis and UC Davis Health faculty, staff and their immediate families.


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:

The UC Smoke and Tobacco Free policy, as detailed for UC Davis, can be accessed at: https://ucdavispolicy.ellucid.com/documents/view/271/active/


Website URL where information about the institution’s wellness programs is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

More information about the UC systemwide, and the UC Davis campus policies is available at: https://healthy.ucdavis.edu/smoke-tobacco-free/policy.

Additional Information and Resources about Wellness Programs:
2015 Wellness Committee White Paper - https://safetyservices.ucdavis.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Wellness%20Committee%20White%20Paper_0.pdf
FY 2017 Annual Report - https://safetyservices.ucdavis.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Annual%20Report%20FULL%20F17%206.7.18_0.pdf
FY 2018 Annual Report - https://safetyservices.ucdavis.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Annual%20Report%202018%20Final_accessible.pdf

Wellbeing initiatives - wellbeing.ucdavis.edu
Work life initiatives - worklife.ucdavis.edu
Employee assistance programs - https://hr.ucdavis.edu/departments/asap
Student wellness programs - https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/

Programs related to student wellbeing;
- Each Aggie Matters Ambassadors: eachaggiematters.ucdavis.edu
- Red Watch Band: https://safeparty.ucdavis.edu/party-goer/red-watch-band-program
- QPR: https://program-requests.shcs.ucdavis.edu
- Mental Health First Aid trainings
- Therapy Fluffies: https://eachaggiematters.ucdavis.edu/how-are-you-feeling/stressed
- Student Organization Wellness Initiative: https://aggielife.ucdavis.edu/organization/SOWI
- Nourish: https://healthy.ucdavis.edu/food-nutrition/nourish
- Peer programming: https://program-requests.shcs.ucdavis.edu
- Aggies for Recovery
- Helmet Hair, Don't Care!: https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/helmet-hair-dont-care
- Wellness Maps: https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellness/maps
- Late Night Campus Events: https://housing.ucdavis.edu/dining/late-night-dining/
- Free HIV Testing: https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/support/hiv-testing
- Wellness To Go: shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellnesstogo
- Love Lab: https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/services/love-lab
- TA Well-Being Program

Vindyani Jayasinghe, a visiting Humphrey Fellow with the Office of Sustainability, assisted in compiling this credit response.


More information about the UC systemwide, and the UC Davis campus policies is available at: https://healthy.ucdavis.edu/smoke-tobacco-free/policy.

Additional Information and Resources about Wellness Programs:
2015 Wellness Committee White Paper - https://safetyservices.ucdavis.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Wellness%20Committee%20White%20Paper_0.pdf
FY 2017 Annual Report - https://safetyservices.ucdavis.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Annual%20Report%20FULL%20F17%206.7.18_0.pdf
FY 2018 Annual Report - https://safetyservices.ucdavis.edu/sites/default/files/documents/Annual%20Report%202018%20Final_accessible.pdf

Wellbeing initiatives - wellbeing.ucdavis.edu
Work life initiatives - worklife.ucdavis.edu
Employee assistance programs - https://hr.ucdavis.edu/departments/asap
Student wellness programs - https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/

Programs related to student wellbeing;
- Each Aggie Matters Ambassadors: eachaggiematters.ucdavis.edu
- Red Watch Band: https://safeparty.ucdavis.edu/party-goer/red-watch-band-program
- QPR: https://program-requests.shcs.ucdavis.edu
- Mental Health First Aid trainings
- Therapy Fluffies: https://eachaggiematters.ucdavis.edu/how-are-you-feeling/stressed
- Student Organization Wellness Initiative: https://aggielife.ucdavis.edu/organization/SOWI
- Nourish: https://healthy.ucdavis.edu/food-nutrition/nourish
- Peer programming: https://program-requests.shcs.ucdavis.edu
- Aggies for Recovery
- Helmet Hair, Don't Care!: https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/helmet-hair-dont-care
- Wellness Maps: https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellness/maps
- Late Night Campus Events: https://housing.ucdavis.edu/dining/late-night-dining/
- Free HIV Testing: https://lgbtqia.ucdavis.edu/support/hiv-testing
- Wellness To Go: shcs.ucdavis.edu/wellnesstogo
- Love Lab: https://shcs.ucdavis.edu/services/love-lab
- TA Well-Being Program

Vindyani Jayasinghe, a visiting Humphrey Fellow with the Office of Sustainability, assisted in compiling this credit response.

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