HEALTH AND WELLNESS PROGRAM
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“Wellness is a multidimensional state of being describing the existence of positive health in an individual as exemplified by quality of life and a sense of well-being.”
The Health & Wellness Department offers programs that benefit all dimensions of wellness for individuals and communities. A wide variety of activities and services are offered for fun, learning, and enhanced health and well-being.
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Foundations and Concepts
Health & Wellness provides programming that benefits all no matter what age or circumstance. Programming promotes personal empowerment and independence.
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William Hettler's Wellness Wheel ©1984
The “Wellness Wheel” involves six dimensions: Social, Spiritual, Intellectual, Emotional, Occupational (having sense of worth), and Physical. If one dimension is positively strengthened the other dimensions benefit as well.
We try to develop and implement programs, events, and classes that together complete the wellness wheel and give participants the chance to address all areas of their personal and community wellness.
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The “Wellness Paradigm” or “Illness-Wellness Continuum” conceptualizes the fluidity of one’s state of wellness. The key to remember about this concept is that one’s level of wellness may fall anywhere from illness or pre-mature death to high level wellness, and that the absence of illness does not necessarily indicate wellness. Also, finding one’s place on the wellness continuum is less important than choosing one’s direction.
We encourage our participants, regardless of where they fall on the continuum, to work toward improving their state of wellness by facing and moving in a positive direction.
