Health Services Programs
Sober Roads:
The University of the Incarnate Word students join with their peers on more than 3,000 other campuses across the country to celebrate National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week – promoting personal responsibility and respect for the law when it comes to the consumption of alcohol beverages.
The activities for National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week are a major focus of our health education program for the fall semester. Our program, Sober Roads, is a coalition of campus departments and community agencies that come together to provide information and learning experiences for our students in the area of drug and alcohol abuse prevention. Approximately 350 students and staff attended.
It is the goal of the University of the Incarnate Word to continue to develop an environment, which encourages and supports the legal, moral, and ethical components of responsibility in the decision-making process concerning alcohol use. All of us work diligently to ensure that students on our college campus have adequate information and education about drug and alcohol abuse.
Wellness Fair:
The Wellness Fair is a collaborative effort that involves the participation of about 25 businesses and agencies from the San Antonio Community as well as numerous UIW departments. This program takes place in the Spring semester.
The Wellness Fair provides active wellness promotion, health risk awareness, and disease prevention services for the college community. Free health screenings ranging from dental exams, vision tests, blood pressures and diabetes screenings to a special bodywork section that offers acupressure, therapeutic shoulder and neck massage, aromatherapy, and meditation training are offered. Opportunities for donating blood and getting a mammogram are also be available. Participants can sign up for nutrition and fitness assessments as well as other fitness activities including aerobics classes, yoga and walking.
A Health Risk/Wellness Game gives participants an opportunity to win prizes donated by the San Antonio business community. Demonstrations and entertainment will be provided including Tai Chi, self-defense, UIW’s Red Alert Dance Team, Crusader Cheerleaders, and Ballet Folklorico. The Wellness Fair is a collaborative program sponsored by Health Services and the Community Wellness Program.
Texans Standing Tall Grant:
Health Services and the STARS peer educators received a grant through the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation in the Fall of 2000. The school year 2001-2002 is the second year of the grant called Texans Standing Tall. TST, a statewide prevention coalition has formed a partnership with thirty college and high school campuses to create a Sports Coalition.
The Sports Coalition uses environmental approaches of social norm marketing campaign and policy development/enforcement to reduce underage drinking and violent behavior among college freshman and high school senior athletes. The holistic wellness model enhances civility and leadership skills among our athletes. Utilizing the “Train the Trainer” model, the program uses peer educators to implement the project.
The peer educators have been trained in the program modules of social norms, violence prevention, policy enforcement, and holistic wellness to present to the target audience. The Sports Coalition will continue to incorporate small group survey and discussion groups for college freshman and high school senior athletes to dispel misperceptions, to educate and enforce campus/community policies, to enhance civility, and personal development among our athletes.
Health Services and the STARS peer educators held a Leadership Institute for high school athletes at the International Conference Center to include IWHS, St. Anthony’s High School, Kennedy High School, and Boerne High School. The three-hour training with the athletes covered areas of social norming, wellness, violence and State and local laws concerning underage drinking.
The participating schools are: University of the Incarnate Word, Baylor University, Stephen F. Austin University, Texas A & M University / Corpus Christi, West Texas A & M / Canyon, Texas A & M / Kingsville, Texas Southern University, Texas Tech University, University of Texas / El Paso, University of Texas / Arlington
