| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.40 |
| Liaison | Austin Sutherland |
| Submission Date | Feb. 21, 2018 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
University of Pennsylvania
PA-13: Wellness Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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1.00 / 1.00 |
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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 staff?:
Yes
Does the institution have a wellness and/or employee assistance program that makes counseling, referral, and wellbeing services available to all faculty?:
Yes
A brief description of the institution’s wellness and/or employee assistance program(s), including information to support each affirmative response above :
The University of Pennsylvania offers an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to provide free and confidential one-on-one counseling sessions to our faculty, staff and their immediate family members when personal life issues are interfering with personal well-being. The EAP also provides frequent support to supervisors and leaders when a critical incident occurs in or affects the workplace, such as the death of a colleague or national catastrophe.
Penn also offers our faculty and staff broad-based wellness programming. These programs include on-campus biometric screenings and flu shots; a comprehensive online wellness portal offering a variety of health promotion tools such as, health risk assessments, telephonic health coaching programs, health information, healthy lifestyle videos, nutritional coaching, as well as a multi-faceted quit smoking program that includes free nicotine replacement therapies. In addition Penn also offers a walking program, monthly presentations by health professionals on stress-management and a range of health and well-being topics. To further promote wellness, Penn became a tobacco-free campus in 2017.
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Student wellness center: http://www.vpul.upenn.edu/health.php
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.