Health Promotion and Education

Office of Health Promotion and Education
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Kalamazoo MI 49008-5445 USA
(269) 387-3263

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Your well-being is our top priority! We are a team of health educators and nationally-certified peer educators working to create a culture of equitable well-being and healthy environments for the success of all Broncos. We focus on prevention and provide support at the individual, community, and systemic levels through trainings, workshops, wellness services, and health-promoting policy and communication initiatives. Workshops and trainings are open to all students, faculty, and staff.  

Our office is open Monday through Friday 9:00am-4:00pm in Sindecuse Health Center room 3120.​

​Our core programs include:​

  • alcohol and other drugs education​

  • sexual health education​

  • sexual assault prevention, education, and support​

  • mental wellness education and suicide prevention and​

  • bystander intervention training


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PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH PROMOTION

The principles that guide us as we work to achieve our mission are:

  1. Health and safety are essential for optimal intellectual, emotional, social, physical and spiritual development and to the academic mission of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍøÖ±²¥.
  2. Health behaviors need to be addressed from both an individual and community context.
  3. Best practice standards of health promotion involve theory-based, data-driven needs assessment, program development and evaluation.
  4. The creation of healthy communities requires interdisciplinary partnerships involving health professionals, educators, artists, community leaders and community members working together to prevent or address critical health concerns.
  5. Creating healthy communities involves an integration of advocacy, education, service, community building and research.
  6. To be successful, community health initiatives must focus on key risks to health and involve a critical mass of community members whose engagement stimulates communication, trust, personal responsibility and shared interdependence.

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CONTACT US

For information about any of our programs please call (269) 387-3263 or email hpe-office@wmich.edu. 

We are also on Facebook, Instagram, and Tiktok: @°ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¹ÙÍøÖ±²¥HealthPromotion.