BASIC NEEDS RESOURCES

Charge:

The UCSB Healthy Campus Network Steering Committee will promote a wellness movement to make our campus the healthiest place in America to work, learn, and live.  UCSB HCN will provide coordination and publicity to healthy campus programs currently in place while innovating new solutions. We will consider all aspects of the environmental, financial, physical, professional, social, emotional, psychological, and cultural wellness of our community members in order to initiate and sustain continual improvements in campus health.

Background:

The Healthy Campus Network Steering Committee at UCSB was established in March 2017. This was launched through the UC Global Food Initiative and established in concert with the creation of similar committees at all ten UC campuses.  This committee will be developing an action plan to support the above charge.

Reports:

• Implementation Plan (August 2017)
• Summary of Draft Goals (August 2017) The draft goals are also available on the sub-committee pages if you click on the sub-committee names below.

Funded Projects:

• Take the Stairs Promotion
• Fit squad: Exercise Options for Staff and Faculty
• Know your Numbers; Health Kiosks
• Tobacco Cessation Resources & Policy Promotion near Library
• UCSB Greenhouse and Garden Project Education Space Renovation
• Campus Farm, Edible Campus Program
• Food for Thought Lunch Series
• Home Cooking: Culinary Cultural Exchange
• Expanding Food, Nutrition, and Basic Skills Workshops to Staff and Faculty
• Wellness for All: Capturing Video of Existing Workshops  (Focus on Learn at Lunch)
• Online Campus Community via OrgSync
• Sense of Belonging: Creating and Maintaining an Inclusive Campus Ecology for Underrepresented Ethnic, Racial, Biracial, and Multicultural Staff and Faculty
• Gaucho Mentor Connection (GMC) Program
• Reducing Food Insecurity for UC Employees; A Food Policy Intern
• Healthy Campus Network Forums
• Healthy Progress: Assessing UCSB’s Efforts to Make Our Campus the Healthiest Place to Live, Work, and Learn
• HCN Coordinator, a Student Intern to help with HCN Steering Committee
• Healthy Cleaning for a Healthy Campus

Contact for the Healthy Campus Network Steering Committee:

Katie Maynard
Staff to the Healthy Campus Network Steering Committee at UCSB
kmaynard@geog.ucsb.edu 
805-448-5111

Sub-Committees:

• Environmental Health (Chairs: Mo Lovegreen, Ginnie Thomas, and Shannon Hinrichs) aims to promote a healthy campus environment that supports students, staff, and faculty learning, working and living on all campus properties.
• Financial Health (Chair: Tracey Nguyen) aims to increase financial literacy and financial health related education across the campus for staff, faculty, and students.
• Longevity (Chair: Mike Miller) aims to sustain and grow the work of the Healthy Campus Network after the sunsetting of the UC GFI
• Psychological and Cultural Health (Chair: Katie Maynard and Iris Chen) aims to enhance connection to others, belonging, and sense of community in order to promote the sustained well-being of students, faculty, and staff and to ensure that the campus physical environment, policies, and resources support optimal emotional/psychological for  students, staff, and faculty.  By promoting public social spaces, supporting cultural diversity awareness, and strengthening communication the subcommittee strives to make UCSB the healthiest place to work, learn, and live. 
• Physical Health (Chair: Katie Maynard and Iris Chen) sub-committee aims to create a culture on the UCSB campus such that healthy living is a central part of daily life for staff, faculty, and students. The Physical Health Sub-committee will focus on food choices, physical activity, and overall fitness.
• Professional and Academic Health (Chair: Erica Losada) sub-committee aims to support a community of thriving faculty, staff, and student Gauchos who are engaged in their professions, careers, and academics. We will do this by utilizing and reinvigorating existing resources and programming ideas, and creating new ones where needed.

Organizational Structure: