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Shaping Conversations around Self-Care for Student Leaders

Recorded On: 05/22/2024

As Student Affairs professionals, we recognize that by supporting students’ well-being and ability to manage stress, we build their capacity for success in and out of the classroom. We also know that while peer education is a proven and effective tool, all too often our student leaders immerse themselves in the promotion of health and wellness for others while sacrificing their own.

This session will introduce a framework by which the largest four-year public university system in the nation came together to address these challenges through a self-care summit led by students and for students. Since its inception the summit has gathered nearly 1,000 students representing up to 14 of our 23 campuses within the California State University (CSU) system. Each summit introduces student leaders to various wellness techniques, campus resources, an opportunity to network and build social support throughout the CSU system, and concludes with a conversation around the importance of using the skills presented to ensure their own success and ability to better serve their peers.

Presenters will review the history and evolution of the CSU Peer Leadership Summit and provide a framework for engaging student leaders in the planning and facilitation of the summit. Themes including self-care by the senses and recharging your self-care battery will also be shared, along with data highlights, lessons learned, and ways to adapt the summit on your own campus.

Learning Outcomes:

  • Participants will have the opportunity to discover a framework by which Student Affairs professionals can support student leaders’ well-being.
  • Participants will have the opportunity to learn about a formula for engaging students in the facilitation and planning of a peer-led summit.
  • Participants will have the opportunity to reframe conversations around self-care and well-being in a way that resonates with student leaders.

Plus earn CSAEd CE Credit.

Melissa Norris

Health Educator

California State University, Fresno

Melissa Norris is a Health Educator at California State University, Fresno, where she has spent the last 12 years putting her strength as a developer of persons and programs in action and supporting student success by engaging students in experiences beyond the classroom. Melissa completed her Bachelors degree in Psychology, Minor in Deaf Studies, Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership, and shortly after earned her Masters degree in Counseling and Student Services with an emphasis in Higher Education. 

Taylor Whittington, Ed.D.

Health Educator

California State University, Stanislaus

Taylor Whittington, Ed.D. has been a Health Educator in the Student Health Center at California State University, Stanislaus since 2016. She possesses a certificate in Health Literacy from the Institute for Healthcare Advancement and is a California Certified Prevention Specialist (CCPS) through the California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals. Her research interests include: health literacy, health equity, college health initiatives, and tobacco control.

Sarah Sasaki

Coordinator for the Learning-Aligned Employment Program

California State University, Long Beach

Sarah Sasaki is a third-year graduate student at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB). She will be graduating from the Student Development in Higher Education (SDHE) program in May 2024. At the CSULB Career Development Center, she has been working as the Coordinator for the Learning-Aligned Employment Program (LAEP). Prior to this, she was a Career Peer Advisor for four years. She has helped plan and emcee the CSU Peer Leadership Summit to encourage self-care, build community, and raise awareness about resources across the CSU campuses. During her time as a CSULB undergraduate, she was involved with various programs that support student wellness, such as Beach Buddy and the University Honors Peer Mentoring Program.

Stephanie McGuire

Health Educator

California State University, Fullerton

Stephanie McGuire is a Health Educator at California State University, Fullerton. She has been in the health education field on CSU campuses since 2015. Stephanie educates and spreads awareness on sexual health and general wellness outreach topics to the student body. She earned her B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Merced, and shortly after her Master’s in Public Health from the University of California, Davis. Stephanie is a Certified Family Planning Health Worker, NASPA BACHUS CPE Trainer, and a Step up! Bystander Facilitator.

Candice Chick

Interim Director of Beach XP

California State University, Long Beach

Candice Chick, MS, has been supporting in different roles in higher education for over 20 years at California State Long Beach (CSULB) always with a focused on holistic approaches (mind, body & spirit) for students' success. Including a decade, as the Student Affairs Coordinator with student athletes, following with supporting the campuses Health and Wellness Initiatives. Currently she is the Interim Director of Beach XP (short for Beach Experience) a partnership between Student Affairs and Academic Affairs to help establish a learning community for incoming first-time, first year students. She strives to always relate to the students' changing needs by lecturing in a master's program in sports management while also volunteering with student' organizations. In addition, Candice loves being active in her free time with her daughter.

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Guidelines for earning CSAEd credit: 

1 CSAEd Core CE will be awarded for completing this course. Completion includes watching the recording and completing the Feedback Survey. 

No partial credit will be awarded; full completion is required. 

Participants must also complete the feedback survey in the Online Learning Community.

Credit is only available for attending the live session.

To receive CSAEd credit, attendees must complete the Feedback Survey in the online event offering the certification. Once the survey is completed, your Certificate will be available in the event modules. The Certificate of Completion, which will show the event and credit earnings, is available for download and/or print from the event in your Online Learning Community.

NASPA has been approved by the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification to provide CE credit for Certified Student Affairs Educators (CSAEd). NASPA is solely responsible for all aspects of this program.

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