Campus Community — Campus community initiatives

Establish unit-specific Health, Wellness, and Appreciation Committees to organize and champion well-being initiatives
Add a “Good News” segment to monthly unit meetings to celebrate personal and professional milestones

Leverage faculty and staff expertise in human–technology interaction to design community-focused digital solutions that strengthen campus well-being (e.g., developing and assessing digital solutions/apps for managing mental health of students and employees)
Establish a senior leadership position for campus well-being initiatives (e.g., VP/AVP for Well-Being)
Establish an Associate Dean for Student-Supervisor Relations to strengthen mentorship, resolve conflicts, and champion well-being

Host wellness events that combine health sessions (e.g., dietitian, fitness, etc.) and food-centred socials to strengthen community connection and well-being
Host an inclusive December holiday party to celebrate the campus community and foster year-end connection
Increase campus-wide opportunities for people to connect and build community
Promote desk-side wellness activities (e.g., stretch breaks, under-desk bike pedals) and within-unit wellness activities (e.g., massage clinics with local therapy students, Wellness Wednesdays)
Host monthly unit-specific gatherings to exchange information and foster mutual support
Offer unit-specific monthly wellness sessions (e.g., yoga classes, book clubs, group walks)
Organize a daily 30-minute walking group (e.g., lunch time walks, walking meetings, etc.)
Facilitate coffee-chat sessions on nutrition, physical activity, and challenging situations (e.g., difficult student conversations, responding to disclosures of sexualised violence) that can impact well-being
Hold annual planting events with students and employees that share climate-hope messages
Schedule regular office coffee breaks to strengthen informal connections
Sponsor peer-support initiatives (e.g., Building Community for Helpers: Supporting Those Who Support Others program, the Caregiver Support Group, etc.)
Identify, support, and promote creative, collaborative on and off-campus engagement opportunities (e.g., volunteering) to contribute and build community

Promote library collections and resources that support health and wellness across the campus community
Promote wellness grants that support active-workplace initiatives
Improve promotion of existing wellness resources across campus
Extend the Library Wellness Wednesday 30-minute virtual sessions to other units
Host a campus wellness challenge awarding points for physical activity, healthy living, kindness, and mental well-being, with weekly bookstore prizes for top scorers
Increase the visibility of campus wellness initiatives (e.g., campus-wide hand-sanitising stations, sharps containers, free menstrual products, mandatory well-being training for student and employee orientation)
Create a central health and wellness landing page for students and employees to access all health and wellness resources
Ensure every health and well-being resource is accessible to multilingual and multicultural campus members
Promote key health and well-being supports during high-stress periods such as midterms and finals
Support community members who feel isolated by building accountable inclusion pathways and expanding culturally safe gathering spaces
Frame the campus environment as a living laboratory, to identify opportunities to study and support health, well-being, and sustainability in all dimensions of wellness
Create an empowered, connected, and resilient campus community that fosters an ethic of care, compassion, collaboration, and community action

Advocate individually and collectively for valued institutional and community changes
Provide primary-care services for faculty and staff alongside existing student clinics
Provide consistent health-and-well-being supports for all employee groups