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Healthy Universities, Community Cohesion & Safeguarding – making connections

Healthy Universities, Community Cohesion & Safeguarding – making connections. Sarah Huws-Davies Director of Student Services. Healthy Universities - Approach.

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Healthy Universities, Community Cohesion & Safeguarding – making connections

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  1. Healthy Universities, Community Cohesion & Safeguarding – making connections Sarah Huws-Davies Director of Student Services

  2. Healthy Universities - Approach • ‘Healthy Universities’ is one application of the healthy settings approach, which is well-established in other settings e.g. Healthy Schools; Health Promoting Hospitals. The approach reflects an appreciation that: • “Many risk factors are interrelated and can be best tackled through comprehensive, integrated programmes in appropriate settings where people live, work and interact.” • Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (Northern Ireland), 2002

  3. What is a Healthy University? A Healthy University: “aspires to create a learning environment and organisational culture that enhances the health, well-being and sustainability of its community and enables people to achieve their full potential.”

  4. Potential benefits • In the UK, there are 164 HEIs with 2.5million students and 378,000 staff (HESA, 20011/12). • Investing in the health and wellbeing of your campus community is a win-win: • Improved student experience, retention and achievement • Improved health and well-being of campus community • Enhanced sense of ‘belonging’ to the community (campus and wider) • Throughput of engaged students and staff exerting a positive influence as local and global citizens within families, communities, workplaces and political processes.

  5. Swansea’s vision • Student Liaison Forum – Terms of Reference • To support community cohesion by ensuring that Swansea is a city that welcomes and values students who value their community and ensures they are accounted for in strategic planning. • This will be achieved by: • Encouraging an understanding and appreciation of the benefits students bring to the community in which they live • Enabling students to undertake the successful transition from supervised accommodation to living independently in the community in which they study

  6. Swansea’s vision • Encouraging students to integrate with and participate in the life of their community in a positive way • Educating students in building positive community relations • Promoting a safe and secure learning environment • Signposting support for students who may be vulnerable • Informing public and institutional planning and policy development in relevant areas with the active involvement of students.

  7. Supporting Strategic Plans Healthy Universities represents a cross-cutting and multi-faceted approach that supports key institutional and community agendas such as: • Recruitment and Retention • Student Experience • Employability • Sustainable Development • Safeguarding • Intercultural & Interfaith communication • Community Cohesion • Prevent

  8. The Ottawa Charter’s action areas as a framework for Healthy Universities www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk

  9. Supporting a safe campus community Entry Points/Catalysts: www.healthyuniversities.ac.uk

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