HEA Healthy Campus Toolkit Breakout Room 4 by

Getting support for Healthy Campus

mullinm1 — 2024-03-05 12:33:58 UTC

Senior management

mullinm1 — 2024-03-05 13:24:44 UTC

How can the toolkit support obtaining buy in from senior management in your institution?

Year end reporting

mullinm1 — 2024-03-05 13:25:12 UTC

Can the toolkit support your institution’s year end reporting to the HEA (note the toolkit and year end report to HEA are separate)?

Champions

mullinm1 — 2024-03-05 13:26:33 UTC

How can the toolkit leverage buy in from champions?

Broad support

mullinm1 — 2024-03-05 13:28:36 UTC

How can the toolkit be used to prioritise health broadly in your institution?

mullinm1 — 2024-03-07 11:54:02 UTC

- Getting senior buy in from HSE. Getting the HSE to speak to the HEIs. Sometimes people see insittutions as not linked to the broader national intiiatives like Pieta house.

- Each university falls into a HSE area. So more links to the community and services in the name prevention. Be aware of what’s available.

- Funding arrives and requires a report, management listen.

- Or accreditation is popular for reputational management.

- Experience from UK

1. Getting senior buy in or getting a strategic objective for health is crucial but not necessarily enough. UCLan had embedded in strategic plan, but when a funding crisis came, not prioritised.

mullinm1 — 2024-03-07 11:54:17 UTC

2. Leadership from government should be tied in as a requirement. So that the university is told by government that this is a priority. Mental health is often focused on students and crises rather than the broader healthy campus approach to be

3. In Wales the funding going into healthy university was tied to health

- Could healthy campus co-ordinators get list of supports from HSE

mullinm1 — 2024-03-07 11:54:54 UTC