The Collaboration
Health Enhancement
Health enhancement's goal is to enhance students’ knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about health, and developing critical thinking and leadership skills among students. This group raises awareness around campus and to UNIV101 classes about healthy relationships, safe-sex practices, stress, injury prevention, alcohol, drugs, HIV/AIDS, STI’s, and violence prevention. Their mission is to help as many students as possible have a better academic level and mental health level by giving presentations and raising awareness about how to stay healthy on Northern Illinois University's campus.
Mission Statement:
“In alliance with the educational mission of Northern Illinois University, the Division of Student-learning opportunities and provide critical service beyond the classrooms that inspire and support intellectual, personal, and civic growth for leadership in a diverse and complex world”.
“In alliance with the educational mission of Northern Illinois University, the Division of Student-learning opportunities and provide critical service beyond the classrooms that inspire and support intellectual, personal, and civic growth for leadership in a diverse and complex world”.
Goals:
To meet this goal Health Enhancement provides training for academic classes and student organizations, outreach events, resource sites, individual and professional consultations, and electronic and print media. The organization has many separate groups that mentor small groups of kids at the same time:
Stress free zone (helps kids manage social relationships/events, works, and school)
Paws Off (stop violence, interpersonal violence)
Health Educator (alcohol information)
Sexual Health (importance of safe-sex etc)
To meet this goal Health Enhancement provides training for academic classes and student organizations, outreach events, resource sites, individual and professional consultations, and electronic and print media. The organization has many separate groups that mentor small groups of kids at the same time:
Stress free zone (helps kids manage social relationships/events, works, and school)
Paws Off (stop violence, interpersonal violence)
Health Educator (alcohol information)
Sexual Health (importance of safe-sex etc)
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Why we chose to work with Health Enhancement:
Health Enhancement understands the problem we focused on because they deal with the health of sexually active women and men. They personally get their information from the reliable NCHA website. On this website at the end of the year students take a survey about their sexual orientation, social activities, and their steps towards living a healthy life during school. They also interact with students one-on-one during the year to provide them with counseling and free condoms to practice safe sex.
Health Enhancement understands the problem we focused on because they deal with the health of sexually active women and men. They personally get their information from the reliable NCHA website. On this website at the end of the year students take a survey about their sexual orientation, social activities, and their steps towards living a healthy life during school. They also interact with students one-on-one during the year to provide them with counseling and free condoms to practice safe sex.
Feel free to visit their website for more information:
http://www.niu.edu/health/
http://www.niu.edu/health/
Additional Links for More Information:
http://www.ashastd.org/
http://smartersex.org/index.asp
http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/FAQ.html
http://www.ashastd.org/
http://smartersex.org/index.asp
http://www.kinseyinstitute.org/resources/FAQ.html