NIRSA Health and Well Being Commission and Communities of Practice

1. NIRSA Health and Well Being Commission and Communities of Practice

2. Emphasis Areas • Increase the dialog among campus recreation student and professional members of holistic health • Empower campus recreation staff through knowledge of best practices, trends in the field of health and wellbeing • Create and enhance resources that allow campus recreation staff to collaborate within their institutional partners to improve health and wellbeing outcomes

3. Next STEP: Member Engagement • Contribute to Habitat discussions on topics shared by commission and of your own interest • Discuss ways to involve staff in spectrum of wellbeing: Physical, Social, Occupational, Environmental, Financial, Psychological, Intellectual, and Spiritual • Provide best practices included in the resources section of the Communities of Practice section of the NIRSA website • Attend the planned Health and Wellbeing Pre-Conference Workshop in Nashville • Seek collaborative partnerships with institutional partners for improved health outcomes

4. Commission Members • April Moore (co-chair)- Florida State University admoore2@fsu.edu • George Brown (co-chair)-University of Alabama gbrown@sa.ua.edu • Heather Sanderson –North Carolina State • Kimberly Barrett-University of Nebraska • Chris Arvin-Indiana University • Joanne Greene-Washington State University • Karen Miller-University of Nebraska • Jennifer Sexton-Stanford University • Adrian Shepard-Winona State University • Tricia Tort-Purdue University • Johanna Valencia-Texas Tech University

5. Community of Practice members • Community of Practice • Chair-Eric Stein elstein@stanford.edu • Sarah Hunt- University of Central Florida • Christopher Nasti- DePaul University • Eric Appiah- Northern Illinois University • Lauren Hanley-Massachusetts Institute of Technology • NIRSA National Center Representative- Mary Callender mary@nirsa.org