NCUE provides outreach programs and projects (which include student volunteers) in the local community to improve or promote health and well-being. Project topics include health, nutrition, family planning, exercise, training, aging, and other topics related to health and well-being.

The behavioral counseling research and development center of NCUE is constructed based on the principles of applied behavior analysis and combined with other counseling theories to provide positive behavior counseling for people with emotional and behavioral problems in the community. We conduct positive behavior intervention, teaching, and behavior counseling through one-on-one methods to promote physical and mental health and quality of life across ages. The age group of service targets ranges from 2 to 40 years old.

1. We provide evidence-based, high-performance professional behavior counseling and intervention services to improve the quality of life of those with physical and mental handicaps in the central region and fulfill our social responsibilities. The performance is as follows:

(1)NCUE’s 2021 full-year target number of services is 105 people and 5,000 person-times. Other services include 60 sessions of counseling assessment meetings and 105 sessions of caregiver seminars. The user’s service satisfaction rate was 97%, and 99% of significant others believed that service users had made significant progress in improving their behavior.

(2)In the past five years, NCUE has served at least 100 persons each year, serving 5,000 person-times each year. We have served a total of 500 people in five years, equivalent to serving 2,500 person-times. There are 300 evaluation and counseling meetings and more than 500 caregivers’ forums.

(3)Every year, we provide professional training workshops for professionals from domestic institutions to train seed teachers in behavioral counseling for schools, medical institutions, and social welfare institutions. In2021, the center and the Autism Association of the Republic of China conducted behavioral counseling for two levels. Participants were rehabilitation medical staff, special education teachers, and education and support staff from the North, Central, and South Districts. Each workshop provided 63 hours of education and training and was attended by about 22 participants. NCUE can thus practice its social responsibility.

(4)NCUE conducted 8 parent training courses in 2021. According to the survey on the course and teaching content, 90-100% of parents were very satisfied with the course.

Please refer to Annex 3.3.2A, Introduction to the service content of NCUE’s Behavioral Counseling Research and Development Center.

2. Through general education courses, we cultivate students’ knowledge of all aspects of health and well-being.

Through general education courses, NCUE cultivates all aspects of students’ knowledge of health and well-being using formal courses to improve or promote health and well-being and enhance students’ influence on social health and well-being. In the 2022 academic year, 180 person-times studied general education courses on diversity learning and mental health support, while 5 sessions of general education seminars focusing on mental health support were held, with 1,692 person-times participating.

Please refer to Annex 3.3.2B - General education courses related to health education in NCUE.

3 Community Psychological Consultation and Potential Development Center provides mental health help to our employees for free. The center cooperates with the personnel office to implement mental health service plans for faculty members and staff and assists the organization in conducting secondary prevention work to protect employees’ mental health. Psychological counseling, groups, and speeches are offered to improve the mental health knowledge of employees in the organization and enhance their mental health, so that they can be more focused on their jobs during working hours and increase their efficiency.

The Community Counseling Clinic of the National Changhua University of Education obtained the approval of the Changhua County Public Health Bureau on July 28^th, 2021 as an institution that offers communication psychological counseling.

The center:

(1)Provides professional psychological counseling services to community members.

(2)Provides practical training and on-the-job training to professional counselors.

(3)Provide supervision services to interns and professional counselors.

The website of Zhangshi University Community Psychological Counseling Office: http://human1.ncue.edu.tw/bin/home.php.

4. Assist in health promotion activities for local seniors and school staff

With the concept of “deep cultivation in the local area and serving the community”, the strategy of “providing professional sports guidance services”, and the vision of cooperating with the national sports policy of the Sports Administration, we aim to promote self-management in middle-aged and elderly people through regular exercise and achieve the core values of the University Social Responsibility, including “talent cultivation” and “local connection”, as well as the vision and plan of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) regarding SDG 1 Ending Poverty, SDG 3 Good Health and Well-Being, and SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities. 2022 implementation strategy and management status:

(1)Cultivate and strengthen the instructors’ professional knowledge: organize 11 incubation courses and 3 sports and health promotion courses, as well as work exchange meetings. We plan to assist in cultivating instructors to obtain 3 domestic certificates, while 1 university social responsibility design and implementation competition was participated in by a total of 6 students, as shown in Figure 1.

(2)Cultivation of seed teachers and volunteers for University Social Responsibility: Establish a U-first sports expert group with 10 seed teachers and 35 volunteers as shown in Figure 2.

(3)Provide sports guidance and consulting services: We combine the experiences of the professional sports instructor training and service plan of the Sports Administration of the Ministry of Education, and i-Taiwan Sports project, with regular sports guidance and consultation for the development of regular exercise habits. Through physical activity guidance and consultation on a regular basis, we support the development of regular exercise habits and physical fitness in the community, strengthening relationships with local residents. In 2023, we will provide 54 exercise guidance and consultation services (implement venue management), with 2,160 beneficiaries. During the COVID-19 pandemic, relevant media channels and professional exercise guidance LINE groups were established for better local sports culture, as shown in Figures 3-4. (The number of viewers totaled 9,800 person-times)

(4)Improve local connections, balancing between practice and research: For better sports culture among the faculty, staff, and students, and to promote the concept of health and physical fitness, we have organized sports guidance courses (twice a month) for faculty and staff, and conducted regular muscle strength training guidance and physical fitness testing in cooperate with the U-First Sports Professional Guidance Service Group since January 2023. In 2023, 10 sports guidance services (practical field management) will be provided, with up to 150 beneficiaries.

References:

Facebook fan page of NCUE’s “U-First Professional Sports Guidance Service,”:

https://www.facebook.com/ncueseniorsports

USRHuB_D project, “Training Cardiac Muscle Power for a happy life in Northern Changhua: Enjoying Sports Project” promotional video: https://reurl.cc/W3Zln5

YouTube channel of “U-First Professional Sports Guidance Service,”:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTbjrjGplhoAda1IqW2DD7Q/videos

5. NCUE plans and creates a fresh, healthy, and high-quality learning environment and organizes outreach activities for healthcare and disease prevention.

NCUE plans outreach plans and projects, including health education, to provide a quality learning environment. It also plans campaigns, enhances the health of the community, and creates venues for health promotion. Smoking is completely prohibited on campus, providing a healthy high-quality learning environment. NCUE also organizes healthcare and disease prevention activities to enhance people’s ability to care for their health.

(1)To promote school health education and provide a quality learning environment, NCUE has created a school health committee. The committee plans school environmental sanitation management and health services, coordinates relevant agencies and organizations to jointly promote school sanitation, and hopes to achieve the goal of ‘health is physical health, mental health, good social adaptation, and sound moral health’.

(2)The Counseling and Consultation Center of NCUE, in addition to the three-level prevention work, cooperates with the Central District College Counseling Coordination Center and the Ministry of Education to carry out relevant research and training activities for professional counselors. The content includes case studies, group supervision, education and training, and thematic studies. Through empowerment training, in addition to enhancing students’ quality of professional work, students also learn to take care of themselves.

(3)To encourage female faculty, staff, and students to continue breastfeeding after giving birth, and in line with the national breastfeeding policy and the spirit of the Gender Equality Law and Gender Equality Education Law, NCUE has set up nursing rooms. The nursing room is provided for the use of the school’s faculty, staff, students, and the community.

(4)On-site physician services: To strengthen the health of workers in the workplace, we provide on-site physician services to assist in the implementation of the four major plans, promote a healthy workplace, prevent workers from occupational injuries and illnesses, and cater for the diverse needs of workers. NCUE provides on-site physician services three times a week.

(5)Our University and Show Chwan Memorial Hospital recently signed the Memorandum of Cooperation on Sports Professional Instructor Training and Service Plan. The plan expresses the intent of mutual cooperation for health promotion activities and services for older adults and the rest of the public, diversified continuous services for personal sports health promotion, cooperation in academic research projects, field academic research development, and in-depth cultivation of local community services.

Please refer to Annex 3.3.2C, outreach plans and projects planned by the school

(6)Assist local enterprises in strengthening the mental health of employees

In cooperation with the local enterprise E-Lead Electronic Co., Ltd., the Community Counseling and Potential Development Center assisted in training project managers on developing sensitivity and highly efficient communication skills, increaseing information for supervisors to identify employees’ psychological needs, and improve the mental health knowledge of staff within the organization, so as to enable them to focus on their duties during working hours, and thereby improve their work efficiency.