The Okanagan Charter - An International Charter for Health Promoting Universities and Colleges
The Okanagan Charter outlines the language, principles, and framework that post-secondary institutions should be utilizing in order to work towards becoming a campus that promotes health and wellbeing in all aspects of life to all individuals. From this goal, the Okanagan Charter’s two Calls to Action are as follows:
To embed health into all aspects of campus culture, across administration, operations, and academic mandates.
To lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally.
The University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ affirms its adoption of the Okanagan Charter as a collaborative framework to promote the health and wellness of our students and the broader campus community.
By adopting the Charter, the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ committed to:
To learn more about each of these commitments, go to the Okanagan Charter Commitments page.Ìý
The University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ commits to embedding health and wellness into all aspects of campus culture, using the following principles as the foundation for our work:
Actions will be informed by a holistic view of health to include physical, mental, social, and spiritual well-being.
Actions will be inclusive by considering everyone who lives, works, and learns at the University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.
The approach will move beyond the individual to implement social and environmental interventions to improve well-being.
To read the Okanagan Charter in its entirety, open up the PDF below.Ìý