CME:1.5 CNE:1.5 CHES:1.5 MCHES:1.5 NASW:1.5 CPEU:1.5
Campus Collaboration, Student Involvement, Collaborative Care, Toolbox
After this session, attendees should be able to:
- Describe the critical need to improve student health behaviors.
- Explain research findings exploring students’ experiences participating in a socially structured university physical activity program.
- Identify at least one strategy from the presented program that could facilitate socially structured physical activity programming on the attendee’s home campus.
Program Abstract:
UCCS Fitness Buddies, a programmatic partnership between Health Sciences, Wellness Promotion, and Campus Recreation, utilizes social connection as a tool for sustainable behavior change. Research findings on this socially-structured peer-facilitated physical activity program will be shared, to include motivational factors for participation, perceived benefits, emotional state changes across sessions, and the overall experiences of students participating in the program. Program leaders will also share lessons learned and recommended best practices for implementation on other campuses.