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SDG3.3.2 Health outreach programmes

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.

1. 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.

1.1 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:

1.1.1 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.
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 counseling 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 behavioral counseling for schools, medical institutions, and social welfare institutions. In 2020, 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 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. In the 2021 academic year, 1,863 person-times studied general education courses on diversity learning and mental health support, while 13 sessions of general education seminars focusing on mental health support were held, with 2,245 person-times participating.

Annex:

  • 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 has obtained the approval of the Changhua County Public Health Bureau to become an institution that offers communication psychological counseling on July 28, 2021.
The center:

3.1 Provides professional psychological counseling services to community members.
3.2 Provides practical training and on-the-job training to professional counselors.
3.3 Provide supervision services to interns and professional counselors.

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

4.1 Amid our aging society, NCUE hopes to help the local elderly maintain their self-care abilities. For this purpose, the U-First Professional Sports Guidance Service Team has been set up and has implemented the “Training Cardiac Muscle Power for a Happy Life in Northern Changhua: Enjoying Sports Project” (“this project” hereafter) since 2020, as part of the University Social Responsibility Hub (USR Hub). In July 2020, we signed the “Memorandum of Cooperation in Training Professional Sports Instructors and the Service Plan” with Changhua Show Chwan Memorial Hospital to construct a supportive environment based on the community, provide medical and health education consultation, offer professional sports guidance, and foster mutually beneficial and sustainable industry–official–university cooperation, so as to build a health-promoting city in Changhua. In 2021, the strategy was implemented as follows:

4.1.1 Training instructors and enhancing their professional knowledge: 10 training courses and three micro-credit courses for diversity learning were offered at the university; after the training, the instructors obtained three certificates for two qualifications issued by domestic and international institutions.
4.1.2 Training seeded teachers and volunteers needed to fulfill the university’s social responsibility: The U-First Professional Sports Guidance Service Team, including 11 seeded teachers and 37 volunteers, was set up.
4.1.3 Providing sports guidance and consulting services: Sports instructors were trained to use cross-discipline (physical fitness, yoga, mindfulness and stress reduction, health promotion, and medicines) and cross-team (U-First sports coaching team, community development association, Changhua Show Chwan Memorial Hospital) combinative effects to conduct various professional sports guidance and consulting activities. In 2021, 7,100 people were served (including community members, NCUE faculty members and staff, and employees of Show Chwan) in guidance projects such as Nordic walking, community guidance and consulting tours in sports and health, and “U-First GYM” online coaching on at-home workouts via videos (lasting five to 25 minutes each) on YouTube (the total number of viewers reached 8,000) during the epidemic. Since mid-October 2021, we have also been providing sports coaching services for the Changhua County Care Association for Children with Disabilities.
4.1.4 Promoting local connections, emphasizing both practice and research: As teachers and students enter the community and are engaged in local activities, the relationship between the university and the community is strengthened, creating a learning field outside the campus. This increases the momentum of community growth, while data relating to project implementation can serve as a reference for future research, sharpening students’ competitive edge in the job market.

4.2 In line with the current social development situation and concepts related to health promotion and preventive medicine, the project will continue to dispatch NCUE’s professional sports instructors to Changhua Show Chwan Memorial Hospital and other stations in the community to provide professional sports guidance to the elderly and the general public and help participants get used to exercising regularly on their own initiative.
4.3 This project cooperates with the “Shetou Sock Project” (a USR project) and has participated in the “Shetou Sock and Guava Festival” for two consecutive years (2020, 2021). During the event, we promote the sock-knitting culture of Shetou, and provide scientific fitness tests and health consultation services. A total of 80 people have used our services. The project creates opportunities to offer mutual aid and foster the common good, increases NCUE’s contribution to the local area, and cultivates students’ practical and problem-solving abilities.

3.3.2
Micro-credit courses for diversity training    
3.3.2
Providing sports coaching and consulting services
3.3.2
Nordic walking” community exercise activity for the elderly    
3.3.2
“Shetou Sock and Guava Festival”

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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):  “Training Cardiac Muscle Power for a Happy Life in Northern Changhua: Enjoying Sports Project” ‘Free Scientific Physical Fitness Test’ program 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 program conducted 17 physical fitness tests attended by 1,100 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 3.3.2C, outreach plans and projects planned by the school  
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