Health and Well-Being

This page records CE Fellows activities related to supporting learning about arts as activism.

Please use it to find people with shared interests, exchange and share wisdom and knowledge, see what conversations we have had about this theme, and share valuable related resources.

If you'd like to be invited to events and activities of this group, please sign up on the member sheet below.

Note: The member list is only to be used for affinity group-specific event invitations and administration. Feel free to communicate with each other individually or in small groups; avoid sending emails to the whole group about non-group events and announcements.

Please send questions about this affinity group to the convening team:

April McMurry, April.McMurry@wwu.edu

Tracy Dahlstedt-Rienstra, Tracy.Dahlstedt-Rienstra@wwu.edu

Related Design Clinics:

Jessie Bloss: Connecting with college students around community and feelings of isolation

Julia Burns: Determining what students living off campus need and how to best support them

Jesse Creydt: Encouraging personal growth amongst teens

Tracy Dahlstedt-Rienstra: Protecting against detractors of a new conflict resolution program at WWU

Diana Gruman: Recruiting diverse candidates for helping professions, such as school counseling, to reflect the local community they serve.

Amy Hockenberry: Designing an effective health equity internship program which is useful for participants and the community

Chris Kobdish: Engaging people in the health care system who are currently not participating

Sunshine Nelson: Streamlining documentation and training of internship system preparing them for trauma related social work

Aly Robinson: Bridging the cultural divide to engage the community members in addressing the underlying complex issues of health outcomes

Amy Rydel: Engaging students in the health department to conduct a Community Health Assessment

Wa’Lynn Sheridan: Supporting coalition members addressing youth substance abuse to educate the community

Roy Sykes: Providing students with information to make decisions to intern with programs such as Sean Humphry House, which serves people with HIV/AIDS

Jen Thistle: Filling the gap of support for youth who use Augmentative and alternative communication (ACC)

Leah Wainman: Creating helpful tools to gain information and connect participants with relevant and helpful services

David Weasley: Figuring out the needs of folks in their 20s and 30s as a Pastor for Young Adults