As a Health Promoting Campus, our vision is to embed wellbeing into all aspects of campus culture and to lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally.
The Comprehensive Wellbeing Initiative (CWI) at UCI is a multi-disciplinary initiative grounded and guided by the Okanagan Charter, and is helping UCI to become a globally recognized health promoting university. UCI is among the first eight campuses in the United States to adopt the Okanagan Charter.
A Commitment to Wellbeing
UC Irvine’s Doug Everhart, director, Student Wellness & Health Promotion, appeared before the California State Assembly at a hearing of the Select Committee on Happiness & Public Policy Outcomes to testify on what UCI is doing to support student happiness and wellbeing at the state capitol in Sacramento.
“The foundation of the work we do is creating a culture and the opportunity and capacity to be well,” shared Everhart. “We use wellbeing as an institutional value because you can’t have happiness without wellbeing to start with.”