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Health Education & Promotion
The Health Promotion staff at the Health & Counselling Centre strive to bring health and wellness information to the UTM community to help empower individuals to learn about, and take control of, their health behaviours. The Health Promotion team takes an outreach approach to bring accessible, engaging wellness information and skills to students. Outreach can take many forms, including pop-ups, tabling, workshops, large scale events and drop-in sessions. An important component to our outreach efforts is our Peer Wellness Program that is supported by our Wellness Ambassadors.
The Wellness Ambassadors (WAM) Program is peer-led health education that provides students with information, tools, and resources to empower them to make healthy choices in support of their personal and academic goals; and supports the development of healthy systems and structures that encourage and foster student health and well-being on campus.
What is Health Promotion?
“Health promotion is the process of enabling individuals to increase control over, and to improve, their health. To reach a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, an individual or group must be able to identify and to realize aspirations, to satisfy needs, and to change or cope with the environment.
Health is, therefore, seen as a resource for everyday life, not the objective of living. Health is a positive concept emphasizing social and personal resources, as well as physical capacities. Therefore, health promotion is not just the responsibility of the health sector, but goes beyond healthy life-styles to well-being.”
Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986