The Okanagan Charter, Health Promoting Campuses, and the Role of Peer Education
Includes a Live Web Event on 02/12/2025 at 1:00 PM (EST)
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The Okanagan Charter calls on colleges and universities to “Embed health into all aspects of campus culture, across the administration, operations and academic mandates…” and “Lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally.” Meeting these actions requires a community health orientation and, as such, depends on members of the community - students - being actively involved in the implementation of the Charter. Peer Health Educators can and should be central to the process and strategy of adopting the Charter, as “health is created and lived by people within the settings of their everyday life: where they learn, work, play and love.” Engaging the student voice in health promotion efforts is essential to making health and well-being central to the educational, transformational mission of higher education. Peer Health Educators are well positioned to be leaders towards becoming a health promoting campus.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand the two calls to action of the Okanagan Charter
- Learn three best practices in peer health education
- Explore 3 examples of integration between the Charter and a peer health education program
Ashleigh Hala, MSW, LICSW
Associate Dean and Chief Wellness Officer
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Ashleigh Hala, MSW, LICSW is the Associate Dean and Chief Wellness Officer at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA. Within that capacity, Hala has oversight for counseling, health services, health promotion, prevention, peer education, and the CARE team. Previously, Hala was the Director for the Office of Wellbeing at Wake Forest University and the founding director for Wellness & Prevention Services at Babson College, leading Babson’s community health, health promotion, and prevention efforts. Hala previously served as the founding Director of Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Services at Babson College and as the Title IX Coordinator/Associate Director of Residence Life at Wheelock College. Hala is an engaged member of NASPA – Student Affairs Professionals in Higher Education and the American College Health Association (ACHA). Recently, Hala served as the Co-Chair for the Wellness and Health Promotion Knowledge Community (NASPA), Faculty for the NASPA Advisors Academy and Advisors Institute, and an Advisory Board Member for NASPAs Culture of Respect initiative.
Ruben Sança, MBA, OLY
Executive Director of Recreation and Wellbeing at UMass Amherst
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Ruben Sança is the Executive Director for Recreation and Wellbeing at UMass Amherst. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from UMass Lowell, with dual concentrations in Finance and Management, along with a minor in Economics and an MBA from UMass Lowell. He previously served as the Founding Director of the Office of Student Life and Wellbeing at UMass Lowell while playing a pivotal role in guiding UMass Lowell to become the first institution in New England to adopt the Okanagan Charter. Sança currently oversees the strategic planning, budgeting, and operations of the campus recreation, wellness programs and facilities, catering to a diverse community of over 30,000 students, faculty, and staff at UMass Amherst. Committed to broader community impact, he currently serves on several leadership teams including the US Health Promoting Campus Network as the MarComm Manager and on the NIRSA Wellbeing Briefing Committee. Additionally, Sança is a member of the World Olympians Association and President of the Cape Verde Olympic Athletes’ Commission.
Guidelines for earning CSAEd credit:
1 CSAEd Core CE will be awarded for completing this course. Completion includes attending the session 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.
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.
Guidelines for earning CHES/MCHES credit:
NASPA is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES). There are up to 1 total Category 1 continuing education contact hour eligible for CHES and 1 total Category 1 continuing education contact hour eligible for MCHES.
To receive credit, please complete a reporting form, available at https://bit.ly/2024FallPE-CEs In addition, you must complete an online evaluation of the webinar by completing the feedback survey found within the content tabs of the module. A certificate of completion will be sent via email after the form has been processed and approved and individual hours will be reported to NCHEC in late January 2025. Please allow about two weeks to receive your certificate.
