No two Healthy Campus initiatives are exactly alike, but most share a similar path to success: Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track.
Adapted from Healthy People 2020, MAP-IT can be used to plan and evaluate public health interventions to achieve your Healthy Campus goals. Whether you are a seasoned professional or new to the field, using the MAP-IT framework in conjunction with the Healthy Campus Inventory will help you create your own path to a healthy campus.
Use these tools and resources as a reference. Each of the five MAP-IT sections includes a brief overview and related resources.
Mobilize – Develop a Core Structure and Identify Champions
Identify Health and Well-being Champions to engage campus leadership in the effort to embed well-being at all levels of the institution. A Champion is someone who fights for a cause or advocates for resources and/or ideas.
Utilizing the campus community (campus leadership, faculty, staff, and students) determine a definition of well-being for your campus.
Identify a systemically cultivated list of diverse campus and community partners who are actively engaged in well-being work.
Create a Core Structure consisting of the:
- senior leadership support
- independently funded staff solely dedicated to promoting the Healthy Campus initiative effort
- diverse groups of faculty, staff, and students
Worksheets:
- Worksheet 1: Potential Partners
- Worksheet 2: Organizing a Coalition
Resources:
- FSG: Reimagining Social Change
- Community Toolbox: Creating and Maintaining Coalitions and Partnerships
Assess – Population Level Data and Community Assets
The Core Structure identifies, gathers, and examines population level health data for student, faculty, and staff.
Campus and community-based assets are systemically collected.
Specific data-derived priorities are clearly identified for a set of priority well-being issues.
Worksheets:
- Worksheet 3: Campus and Community Assets
- Worksheet 4: Prioritizing Issues
Resources:
Plan – Identify Tasks, Goals, Strategies
The Core Structure meets regularly to address identified well-being priority issues. Their tasks include the following:
- Develop the data-derived priorities, set while assessing campus, into measurable goals for the institution (needs worksheet).
- Establish a Common Agenda with measurable strategies and objectives for the identified well-being priorities
- Ensuring campus well-being initiatives are steeped in cultural humility.
Worksheets:
- Worksheet 5: Defining Terms
- Worksheet 6: Potential Measures
- Worksheet 7: Setting Targets
Resources:
Implement – Institutional Well-Being Initiatives
Core Structure members effectively collaborate to mobilize and strategically deploy resources to achieve the identified well-being priorities and goals.
Senior leadership actively talks about one or more objectives from the Common Agenda in their communications to the campus community.
Well-being is embedded in the university’s strategic plan, division, and departmental mission statements and/or vision documents.
The campus community collaborates with the wider community on issues of well-being.
The institution develops policies that promote well-being for the campus community.
The campus considers the well-being when planning the campus’ built environment.
Communicate your Core Structure’s incremental progress.
Worksheets:
- Worksheet 8: Communication Plan
Keep your Setting Targets Worksheet (worksheet 7, above) in mind as you implement initiatives.
Track – Progress and Communication Toward Goals
Use data sets to track progress towards goals from the Common Agenda.
Track evidence of successes/wins regarding two or more objectives derived from the Common Agenda.
Evaluate to ensure that well-being initiatives address the identified needs of student sub-populations.
Measure both behavior change and positive changes in campus perception of well-being by campus community members collected through qualitative and quantitative measures.
Longitudinally track efforts toward well-being culture.
Worksheets:
- Worksheet 9: Well-Being Committee Self-Assessment
- Worksheet 10: Setting Progress Measures
Use the Setting Progress Measures Worksheet to track progress and keep your Communication Plan Worksheet (worksheet 8, above) in mind.
Resources:
- ACHA National College Health Assessment (ACHA-NCHA)
- Healthy Minds Study
- Community Toolbox: SWOT Analysis
MAP-IT Framework Source: https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/tools-and-resources/Program-Planning
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