Empowering the next generation of community health advocates.
We believe that community-based health campaigns should come from community members themselves. When one group of students begins advocating for an improved health practice, the whole school population can benefit, creating The Wellness Effect.
Our mission: to empower students to lead community health campaigns, increasing confidence in health literacy and advocacy skills while improving community health behaviors.
What we do
In our programming, collegiate student-athletes pursuing health professions mentor middle or high school students as they develop their own community health campaigns based on prevalent issues that they are passionate about. The goal is that in doing so, not only is community health improved, but students gain confidence in their health literacy and health advocacy abilities.
We provide students with engaging curricula meant to increase health literacy, health campaign knowledge, advocacy confidence, and leadership abilities. We then assist participants as they get creative in their campaign creation!
Program structure
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Partnership
Pre-health college students team up with a local public middle or high school.
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Mentorship
Pre-health college students provide mentorship, both in teaching health literacy curricula and assisting participants in their health campaign creation.
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Health Literacy
We aim to increase participant health literacy over the course of the program. A baseline assessment is distributed at the beginning of the program, and the same assessment is taken at the conclusion.
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Community Engagement
Campaigns address real health issues identified by students as prevalent community problems. Students determine which mediums they would like to use to distribute information (posters, social media videos, etc.)
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Impact Measurement
Surveys and engagement analytics assess campaign success in improving school community health behaviors and attitudes.
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