NCUE provides outreach programmes 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, ageing, and other topics related to health and well-being.

1.The behavioural counselling research and development centre  of NCUE is constructed based on the principles of applied behaviour analysis and combined with other counselling theories to provide positive behaviour counselling for people with emotional and behavioural problems in the community. We conduct positive behaviour intervention, teaching, and behaviour counselling 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.

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

1.1.1 NCUE’s 2020 full-year target number of services is 101 people and 5,000 person-times. Other services include 63 sessions of counselling assessment meetings and 122 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 behaviour.

1.1.2 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 counselling meetings and more than 500 caregivers’ forums.

1.1.3 Every year, we provide professional training workshops for professionals from domestic institutions to train seed teachers in behavioural counselling for schools, medical institutions, and social welfare institutions. In 2020, the centre and the Autism Association of the Republic of China conducted behavioural counselling 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 25 participants. NCUE can thus practice its social responsibility.

1.1.4 NCUE conducted 13 parent training courses in 2020. According to the survey on the course and teaching content, 80%–90% of parents were very satisfied with the course.

Annex:

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.

Annex:

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

3.The Community Psychological Counseling Office was started in August 2020. After four months, it applied for a launch in November of the same year. On 19 January 2021, the Consultation Office was issued a business license by the Changhua County Health Bureau. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Consultation Office was approved by the Changhua County Health Bureau as an institution for psychological consultation services via communication devices and issued a business license on 28 July 2021. Therefore, we do not only provide face-to-face individual consultation, family therapy, and play therapy services. For clients over 18 years of age, after being evaluated by a psychologist on the suitability of psychological counselling via communication devices, they can choose to conduct psychological counselling via communication devices to avoid factors brought about by the epidemic situation, such as home isolation and distance, that may hinder psychological counselling.

The main services of the National Changhua University of Education Community Psychological Counseling  Institute include the professional services of community psychological counselling, practical and on-the-job training of psychological counselling professionals, and supervision services of interns and psychological counselling professionals.

Related link:

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

4.Health promotion activities for senior citizens in local communities

The U-First sports professional guidance service team of NCUE has invested in NCUE Social Responsibility Hub (USR Hub): Zhangbei Muscle Strength-Qimozi · Happy Sports Plan. The activity is to respond to the emerging problems brought about by the ageing of the population. It helps local middle-aged and older people maintain their basic ability of independent living and self-care, and achieve health promotion (see picture ).

4.1 In conjunction with the local Revitalization Community Development Association and neighboring community residents, we conduct regular community stationing campaign guidance and consultation work. We also conduct irregular exercise guidance and consultation activities in various towns, as well as physical fitness testing for older adults and general adult physical fitness testing. These activities help village residents understand their physical and physiological conditions, and plan and choose appropriate exercise programmes to promote personal health and achieve sustainable development of the community.

4.2 NCUE signed a memorandum of cooperation with Show Chwan Memorial Hospital to jointly train professional sports instructors. We provide exclusive exercise plans and health service programmes for older adults in Changhua County and the general community to promote regular exercise of Changhua people and achieve preventive medicine and health self-management.

4.3 To implement NCUE’s social responsibility, we have collaborated with Show Chwan Memorial Hospital to promote an industry–academe cooperation plan. We have adopted the concepts of ‘cultivating the locality and serving the community’ and ‘providing professional sports guidance services’ in our strategy to achieve our vision of creating industry–government–academe cooperation service business.

4.4 This plan is in line with the current state of social development and the concepts of health promotion and preventive medicine. In the future, student sports instructors of National Changhua University of Education will continue to come to Show Chwan Memorial Hospital or community bases to provide professional guidance for older adults in the community and the rest of the public. They will create exclusive exercise prescription courses and help the people develop a good habit of exercising on their own.

Annex:

Please refer to Annex 3.3.2C. The U-First Sports Professional Guidance Service Team of NCUE is committed to NCUE Social Responsibility Hub (USR Hub): Zhangbei Muscle Strength-Qimozi·Happy Sports Plan

Related link: https://www.facebook.com/ncueseniorsports

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 and healthy high-quality learning environment. NCUE also organizes healthcare and disease prevention activities to enhance the people’s ability to care for their health.

5.1 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’.

5.2 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.

5.3 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.

 5.4 Our University Social Responsibility Hub (USR HUB): North Zhang Muscle Strength Program Office has launched the ‘Free Scientific Physical Fitness Test’ programme to complement the ‘Free Scientific Physical Fitness Test’ implemented by the Sports Department of the Ministry of Education. The plan helps individuals understand their physiology and physical fitness, and then choose suitable exercises for physical training, allowing people to exercise together and stay healthy for a long time. The test subjects are the school’s 23- to 64-year-old faculty, staff, and students, and 23- to 64-year-old residents of neighboring communities. The programme conducted 10 physical fitness tests attended by 400 people, many of whom highly rated the test.

 5.5 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.

Attached information:

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

   SDG3.3.1 Current collaborations with health institutions

SDG3.3.3 Shared sports facilities