The College of Central Arkansas kicked off its annual BeWell initiative with the debut of the newly established UCA Wellness Champion Award.
The UCA Wellness Champion Award acknowledges staff who’ve constantly demonstrated a dedication to develop and promote a tradition and surroundings of wellness at UCA. The college acknowledges worker wellness in eight dimensions: bodily, environmental, monetary, occupational, social, emotional, non secular and mental. Awards are given in every of the next classes: labeled workers, non-classified workers and college.
Staff Emily Cooper Yates, María Negrete Padrón and J. Artwork Gillaspy earned the labeled workers member, non-classified workers and college member awards, respectively.
The three have been introduced the awards by UCA Wellness Coordinator Moriah Bruner and Well being and Wellness Promotion Committee Chair Alicia Landry, affiliate professor within the Division of Diet and Household Sciences, earlier than UCA school and workers in the course of the annual BeWell Kickoff just about hosted Nov. 4.
“UCA is lucky to have quite a few staff on our campus that champion wellness every day,” Bruner mentioned. “These wellness champions play a key position in reinforcing a supportive surroundings for well being at UCA that permits scholar studying and success and helps efforts to draw and retain a extremely certified and numerous workforce.”
By means of the worker wellness program BeWell, UCA invests within the bodily and psychological well-being of greater than 1,500 school and workers members. Utilizing an evidence-based, multifaceted strategy, BeWell seeks to have interaction staff in progressive wellness programming that may cut back well being threat components and absenteeism, enhance wholesome behaviors and productiveness, and decrease well being care prices for the college’s self-funded well being plan.
Cooper Yates is undertaking coordinator for the Middle for Group and Financial Growth within the UCA Division of Outreach and Group Engagement. She acquired the labeled workers award for her exemplary service as a BeWell Champion, the department-level worker wellness ambassadors who’re important to producing the grassroots help and engagement wanted to help a tradition of wellness at UCA. Cooper Yates was acknowledged for encouraging a extra lively and wholesome surroundings within the division by implementing enjoyable, artistic and accessible wellness actions and maintaining 20 colleagues engaged with the BeWell program.
Negrete Padrón, affiliate director of the Workplace of Variety and Group, acquired the non-classified workers award for serving as a constructive position mannequin for wellness and motivating her colleagues to prioritize their bodily and emotional well-being.
Gillaspy, chair of the Division of Psychology and Counseling, acquired the school award for his dedication to nurturing a tradition of range, inclusion and collegiality. Gillaspy was additionally acknowledged for his contributions to BeWell’s diabetes and weight administration applications. In spring 2021 he volunteered to assist facilitators set up a strong motivational interviewing part, strengthening the favored no-cost worker well being teaching applications.
About UCA BeWell
BeWell is UCA’s worker wellness program. Recognizing that wholesome and comfortable staff drive scholar success, BeWell seeks to have interaction UCA’s school and workers in progressive wellness programming that may cut back well being threat components and absenteeism, enhance wholesome behaviors and productiveness and decrease well being care prices for the college’s self-funded well being plan. Along with providing a complete lineup of health-promoting programming, benefits-eligible staff and retirees enrolled in UCA’s medical insurance can full actions to qualify for a reduction on medical insurance premiums and earn BearBucks that can be utilized to make purchases on campus and a restricted variety of off-campus places.
