Whole Family Wellness
Our Focus
The Whole Family Wellness Lab is focused on providing public education about health & wellbeing for the entire family, giving a voice to parents in our region, and identifying areas for research, training, and support.
What is Whole Family Wellness?
Whole Family Wellness (WFW) is a holistic approach to understanding and achieving health and wellbeing for the entire family. The World Health Org (WHO) defines health as a “State of complete physical, mental, & social well-being, & not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.“ The National Wellness Institute defines health as "a conscious, self-directed, & evolving process of achieving full potential."
Wellness for the entire family means each member is experiencing wellbeing and the family unit is healthy as a whole.
Projects
Student Participants created informational and interactive flyers for each area of wellness.
The Public Education Campaign promotes educates, advocates, and guides communities on a holistic approach to wellness. We work with communities, businesses, and schools to implement measures to strengthen and maintain communities' understanding and development of holistic wellness. This approach encompasses all facets of life, including:
Emotional/mental Environmental
Financial Intellectual
Occupational Physical
Social Spiritual
The goal of these sessions is to provide an avenue to understanding and giving voice to the concerns and lived experiences of parents.
A parent listening session will either be in person at one of our sites or via Zoom consisting of two students and 7-8 parents. In the session, students will interview parents using our parent needs survey questions to get information on what resources parents are looking for.