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

1. NCUE Establishing a "Health Promotion and Care Management for the Elderly Indigenous Class" to Cultivate Professional Talent and Improve the Quality of Life in Health Management and Care for the Elderly.

According to the United Nations and World Health Organization (WHO) definitions, a society is considered an "aged society" when 14% of the total population is 65 years or older, and a "super-aged society" when this percentage reaches 20%. Data from the National Development Council shows that Taiwan became an aged society in 2018 and is expected to enter a super-aged society by 2025. Given that many indigenous areas are located in remote regions with low retention rates for caregivers, training indigenous talent in elderly health care not only provides opportunities for indigenous people to return and serve their hometowns but also addresses the long-term imbalance in care supply and demand in indigenous communities. Therefore, starting from the 2023 academic year, NCUE has established an Indigenous Class for Health Promotion and Care Management for the Elderly. The curriculum is divided into three key areas:

(1) Required Professional Courses: Elderly Health Promotion Module, Care Service Module, Management Module, and Other Related Courses.

(2) Elective Professional Courses: Business Management Module, End-of-Life Care Module, Health Promotion Module, and Home Supervision Module.

(3) Indigenous Culture and Language Module.

2. Behavioral Counseling Research and Development Center.

NCUE's Behavioral Counseling Research and Development Center applies principles of behavioral analysis to provide behavioral counseling for individuals with disabilities who have specific needs. The center offers individual counseling for 6-10 people and organizes two group counseling sessions for individuals with disabilities. Through one-on-one positive behavioral interventions, teaching, and behavioral guidance, the center promotes physical and mental health and quality of life across different age groups. The service targets individuals registered in the Changhua area who have a disability handbook or certificate and have been assessed to have long-term self-injury, aggression, property destruction, socially unacceptable behavior, or excessive withdrawal issues that severely affect their life adaptation and require behavioral guidance.

The center uses behavioral analysis theories and developmental theories as its theoretical framework, emphasizing a student-centered service model and promoting evidence-based therapeutic service strategies to facilitate diverse service programs for individuals with disabilities. Additionally, to meet the needs of different service recipients, the center also utilizes and integrates professional knowledge of rehabilitation counseling, combining career guidance concepts and different counseling schools to promote guidance service strategies for individuals with disabilities. The goal is to establish a research and development center for counseling individuals with disabilities in Taiwan.

3. Cultivating Comprehensive Health and Well-being Knowledge Through General Education Courses.

Through general education courses, NCUE comprehensively cultivates students' knowledge of health and well-being in formal curricula to improve or promote health and well-being and enhance students' influence on social health and well-being. In the 2023 academic year, a total of 1,693 student enrollments were provided for general education courses related to diverse learning and mental health support. There were 33 general education lectures related to mental health support issues, accommodating 3,510 attendees.

4. Community Psychological Counseling and Potential Development Center.

The Community Psychological Counseling and Potential Development Center is responsible for providing free mental health support to employees. The center collaborates with the Personnel Office to implement on-campus mental health service programs for faculty and staff, assisting the organization in constructing secondary prevention work for employee mental health. Through free psychological counseling, group activities, and lectures, the center promotes mental health knowledge among organizational personnel to enhance their mental health, enabling them to focus on their duties during work hours and thereby improving work efficiency. The "NCUE Community Psychological Counseling Center" was approved by the Changhua County Health Bureau on July 28, 2021, as an institution authorized to conduct remote psychological counseling services.

The main services include:

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

(2) Offering practical research and on-the-job training for professional psychological counselors.

(3) Providing supervision services for interns and professional psychological counselors.

5. NCUE's Planning and Implementation of a Fresh, Healthy, and Quality Learning Environment, and Outreach Activities for Health Education and Disease Prevention.

NCUE plans outreach programs and projects, including health education to provide a quality learning environment, planning for physical activities to enhance community health, and creating a health-promoting environment. The campus is entirely smoke-free, providing a fresh and healthy quality learning environment, and organizing health education and disease prevention activities to improve health care capabilities.

(1) To promote school health education and provide a quality learning environment, NCUE has established a School Health Committee. It plans for school environmental health management and health services, and coordinates with relevant agencies and organizations to jointly promote school health matters, aiming to achieve the goal of "health being sound in four aspects: physical health, mental health, social adaptation, and moral health."

(2) NCUE's Counseling and Guidance Center, in addition to practically implementing the university's three-level prevention work, also cooperates with the Central Region College Counseling Consultation Coordination Center and the Ministry of Education's policy promotion. It organizes relevant seminars and training activities for professional counseling personnel, including case studies, group supervision, educational training, and themed workshops. Through capacity-building training, it not only improves the work quality of professionals but also teaches self-care.

(3) To encourage female faculty, staff, and students of NCUE to continue breastfeeding after giving birth, and in line with the national breastfeeding policy and the spirit of gender equality in work and education laws, we have set up breastfeeding (milk collection) rooms. These are available for use by breastfeeding faculty, staff, students, and community members.

(4) To enhance workplace labor health, provide on-site physician services, assist in the implementation of four major plans, promote the creation of healthy workplaces, and prevent occupational injuries and diseases among workers to meet their diverse needs, NCUE provides on-site physician services three times a week.

(5) NCUE recently signed a "Memorandum of Cooperation for Sports Professional Instructor Training and Service Plan" with Show Chwan Memorial Hospital. This collaboration aims at health promotion activities and services for the elderly and the general public, diverse and continuous personal sports health promotion services, cooperation in academic research projects, development of field academic research, and in-depth local community service.

(6) Assisting Local Enterprises in Employee Mental Health Promotion

(a) The Community Psychological Counseling and Potential Development Center cooperates with the local enterprise "E-LEAD Electronic Co., Ltd." to assist in training enterprise supervisors and project managers in sensitivity and high-efficiency communication skills. This enhances supervisors' ability to identify employees' psychological needs, promotes mental health knowledge among organizational personnel to improve their mental health, enabling them to focus on their duties during work hours, thereby improving work efficiency, enhancing their physical and mental health, creating a good interactive organizational culture, and ultimately increasing their sense of well-being.

(b) The Community Psychological Counseling and Potential Development Center collaborates with the local enterprise "ChiBuApp Inc" to participate in the "2024 Youth Career Counseling Service Plan." It provides career counseling services to the target audience of the "2024 Changhua County Youth Career Guidance Service Promotion Plan," enhancing youth workplace adaptability and assisting young people in entering the job market.

Appendix Data and Website Links:

(1) Appendix 3.3.2A Indigenous Class for Health Promotion and Care Management for the Elderly - Implementation Effectiveness.

(2) Appendix 3.3.2B Health Education-related General Education Courses at Our University.

(3) NCUE Community Psychological Counseling Center website: https://humanweb.ncue.edu.tw/

(4) Behavioral Guidance Research and Development Center: https://girc.ncue.edu.tw/btcrc/center_intro.php?action=list&show_cim_no=1509092525