Eagles Take Flight: Partnering with Families for Student Success

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Good evening Welcome to our 3rd in a series of webinars for students and families.

We have a little feedback my name is Matthew Damschroder and I'm proud to be here as the vice president for student life and Dean of students for Juniata College, where I'll be starting my 4th year in the rule, helping to craft and shape the Co curricular experience for students educational experience that we feel sets. This educational experience apart and really makes it a special place for students to be educated and take part in uh.

Pirate campus as the Dean of students. I worked with a team of professionals on our campus who provide services and supports an answers and solutions for students as they encounter obstacles educational experiences for them as they seek opportunities to grow and develop their learning skills and to provide a place that students belong and feel welcome and can call home and tonight. We're going to walk through some of those resources and supports and I have a couple of my.

Great colleagues here to sort of share in that conversation.

And so takes a white will be serving in their capacity of assistant Dean of students and focusing on the well being and Wellness of students in the year ahead and I'd like to invite Asia to the table. The sort of talk through some of our residential living and learning experiences and a classroom experience of students so well contained so glad to hear you are education and exceptional one of that and certainly I think.

Representative some of that great characteristics of our students and so I'm curious what brought you back to keep us. What do you love about working with with junior sure so I would say that when I think about my juniata experience and the amount of support that I received as a student from various faculty and staff like this really felt like a home away from home for me coming from New York City. This is a very different environment. And so I felt like you know being able to create that experience for an incoming student would be really important, and having.

Experience of living in a big city and also living in a small town. I felt like I could help other students. Navigate some of those challenges and I think that this is a really great place to live. Overall, like I spent most of my summers here instead of New York City until you know, I think that there's a lot to experience here in Huntington at Juniata well students at Juniata like you, said come from all around. We have students and will talk about some of the characteristics of the incoming class in a minute, but our students.

Generally are very academically well prepared, they've been well in high school. They've succeeded and show a lot of success. You know they tend to be confident, but humble driven to succeed, but open to asking good questions hard working and willing to apply themselves and they oftentimes think that there are very social characteristic of a collegiate party mindset. But in reality, they act. I think in mature responsible ways. They tend to be good good campus citizens and.

And we have Jesse Leonard here who represents public safety and won't be able to talk a little bit more about you know, some of the safety aspects of our campus and things like that. You know as we think about the incoming class specifically about 405 full time first year students will be joining us in the fall. We have a good mix of students, 35 students are international students from 13 countries are students represent states from.

Coaster comes 21 states, including Pennsylvania and students come to us. You know from far and wide. We've got students from larger cohorts at Texas and California and Illinois and it's exciting to see so much diversity assembling on campus.

We also have a history on our campus of serving first generation students or students who are whose parents college attenders. We have a good mix of men and women about 40% of our students for men, 60% are women and about 1:00 in 5 of our students is multicultural student or student of color and then 36% of our students play one of our 23 varsity sports and will be adding Mens across.

Twenty twenty one and so will have 24 Sports Go Eagles, but one of the things that I think for me characterizes the Juniata experience is the students get to explore who they want to be and to bring them their full authentic self to the table and so this is a place where students can be warmly embraced where they can explore interests where they can leverage their talents and things that they've done well and also ask questions about the things they might.

Do well and not be afraid to stumble and and to grow and to get better. We welcome students to sort of be themselves here.

And that's kind of exciting so you know, I'm kind of thinking about him. You've served in the capacity of leading or housing enterprise at Juniata residential life environment. We know that students who live on campus and dine on campus have some success that exceeds that appears who don't can you talk a little bit about what the literature says sure so?

A lot of the literature points to about living on campus and just having that residential experience really highlights 3 things so one. Students who live on campus and have higher GPA's and I like to think it's because they had easier access to resources after hours. The other point that the richer says is that students tend to be more engaged where they live on campus. And so they are more involved in campus activities they fill a better connection to the campus.

And I like to think that because you know, there are evening activities that our students can take advantage of much more easily because they do live on Camera and so like the club meetings and taking advantage of the after hour programs. It makes it much easier to attend those when you look on campus versus you know trying to commute and go home and then try to come back for that living a couple blocks away. The dogs are all on our students just living.

With things right outside their door makes that engagement a lot easier and then the other thing is students will graduate with certain attributes that help with their development well beyond college, so you know when you think about adulting skills like leadership in.

Problem solving a communication like those and things that they will develop because of the interactions that they have in the residence halls and with professional staff that lived in the residence halls as well. That contribute to that development that they can take well beyond college well. One of the things that we talk about that students need to be able to do when they leave. Juniata move into the world. Its work in a diverse workforce and clientele, maybe who includes People, who are different in background and experience an idea.

Then uh uncertain time as they come in. How do they experience difference in residence halls or kind of navigate that process of the comic comfortable with others? Maybe, who have differences.

Sure, so I would say a lot of that is done through our programming in the residence halls. We try to do a lot of activities and events that focus on global citizenship and what we mean by that is, you know understanding how to interact with different different People from different backgrounds whether if you know, someone who has a different background from a different state or from a different country. Being able to have some productive conversations about you know what are some differences about where we come from and how do we find?

A common ground. How do we learn from each other and so we do a lot of that in a residence halls. I would highlight our global village living my communities in particular because they do a phenomenal job of creating some more of those opportunities. I like to think of it as if a student is interested in studying abroad. Or maybe unsure I think the global village provides a great opportunity for students to have that experience before.

Going out to another country and so it's also been placed maybe improve on a particular language. So you know, there are some many different opportunities within the residential makeup that really allow for some of the interaction and you know, I love global village because I follow the Food and there's always something local village is probably my favorite. But I will eat anything on there frequently on Friday nights so watch your student to meet Maine. Some of the global village on Friday night.

If you haven't notice we do have a chat box a chat function and we are welcoming your questions and so we have a prize for the first person to submit a question, we're looking forward to you, engaging with us. So if we say something that cute for you, please chat us up and let us know what you're thinking about her curious.

Change you know, one of the I think anxieties for students coming might be that they've never lived with another person and I I grew up. I have brothers and sisters, but they're much older and so they were kind of out of the house as I was coming of age. I was terrified to live with a roommate right. I didn't even share delights, which I don't think so. How do you help prepare students how do they pick a roommate and what happens once they get here on campus so we try to start that process with our housing application.

And so we asked questions pertaining to you know preferences like personal preferences. Whether It Be. You know would you like to go to sleep?

Your study environment is your cleanliness enough level and you know that's really important for us because we take that information and we try to do some matching with other individuals that meet that same criteria and then we also allow for students to pick their own roommates. And so equals MC is a tool that we've adopted and using to collect that information, but also students can utilize that to find roommates and so for many of our first year students they may have done the.

Roommate search where they took the criteria from their housing application and look for other People who had that same information. I like to think of it as match.com for roommates because it really is an opportunity to kind of see where the similarities are even at least start a conversation about you know what are some of the things that were willing to share or some of our pet feeds? What type of music do you like just things like that to start the conversation and then want students get here we start them with?

Completing a roommate contract and it's really helpful tool to help our students kind of understand what it's like living with someone for the first time you came from. I'm an only child. So I came from having my own room and you know, having a tool like a roommate contract really helped me to figure out you know what are the things that I'm comfortable with and make sure that I'm communicating that to my roommate ahead of time and so we provide that tool and we revisit it in the event that.

Something does arise. Let's say if someone is violating the contract or someone wants to amend the contract and we do encourage students to revisit it frequently with there are a an able to make some adjustments as needed, and some of the advice that I you know, I offered a parents. I think in that process is how do you help your student tell their story in a way that allows them to set limits and boundaries that are appropriate without feeling like they're going to be uncool with their roommate or somehow you know abridge the rights and responsibilities that.

That's a roommate hats you know, I like to study in my room. I get distracted in the library. How do I tell my roommate? I need 3 or 4 hours a long time to get that done or at least I need you to be quiet that can be communicated skill.

So we're getting some good questions. I am will take these kind of as they come somebody else. What happens if someone breaks a roommate contract is our roommate court So what we do is we try to have a conversation with all parties. So it's two roommates. We try to meet with each one individually and kind of get their side of the story and then bring.

All parties together to review the contract and try to talk about where where the differences in understanding and if it's you know it may be a matter of Oh. I thought I said, this but really. I meant that I'm just providing that clarification or sometimes it could be. You know, I said, this at the beginning, but really after having a chance to adjust my schedule. I would really prefer this and that's OK, you know, we try to have it be kind of a working document and so, if they do want to make some changes.

You know as long as they agree they can proceed with making those changes and have a better understanding woman forward on that question was from an an I have a standing stone coffee company gift card for you. Everyone loves coffee or at least a nice beverage and so find me when you're on Cuba's founders 203 and I'll have that standing stone coffee company gift card for you and also ask can anyone eat at the global village and I say absolutely as long as the food lasts not only can you eat at the global village?

They will empower you to help cook at the global village. Despite your towel level. They will find something that you can do.

OK, we are going to move on if I can get my slides so dining on campus eating preparing food or at least foraging for it can be a challenge for students who maybe haven't had to do that in the past and so we have, I think an excellent food dining plan on campus and some options for students and they're all sort of centered around this idea of Baker your way that.

That Baker Refractory or dining Hall is the place where students go breakfast lunch and dinner an really through the day. Can you talk a little bit about unlimited dining? Does that mean students will eat and eat and eat at the dining mean when I was a student, but unlimited dining students access to go in and out of the dining Hall as frequently as they would like from the time that they open until they close.

So let's say if they would have going for coffee at 8:00 o'clock and then they want to go in at 9:00 o'clock for a banana and then go back at 11 for ice cream like they're more than Welcome to do that throughout the day because of the always be subsiding plan that we have and then we also have some opportunities for them to visit some of our there guiding facilities like a satellite dining if they want to get something to go out there on the way to class they can do so using their DCP there.

Declining cash balance and you know it's a sandwich or coffee or what have you they can do so at one of the 5:00 actions on campus that are outside of Baker. But I mean with the unlimited dining are really going into bigger even if it is a long walk along walk right. It really is a huge benefit. You can go in and out as much as you want and get a lot of the same things that you can get at some of the satellite places and so I would Brazoria breakfast second breakfast.

Fairly launch 11 ziz launch and it's nice to be able to sort of have food as you need it or its brakes come along during the day I think students really appreciate that and so the variety and the options change kind of as the day moves forward.

You know the other consideration for me and a lot of students is allergies and sensitivities and you know sort of specific needs that bound my diet and so the provider that we have and Baker has developed. I think a really good plan for students who need to be aware of ingredients and sensitive to ingredients that are in in our futon, so practice labeling. The Baker and other campus retail location students can see those.

Top 8 allergens that they might need to avoid they can always ask Baker staff. A particular ingredients are present in a in a dish and then the clean plate is really a benefit for students who need to be mindful and aware of specific ingredients or items that they might avoid it. I'm sure you've had chance to eat at the clean plate by its students get to kind of select the options that they want and it's made to order there.

In a place where it's not exposed to stray gluten or or some of those things that really might alarm a student that they had specific allergies or sensitivities, so they need to be aware of and mindful of you deal with students. Sometimes you have questions about our dietary restrictions. What kind of guidance or support can students get if they need to talk to someone about where to find the right foods or or how to conduct that kind of an investigation in the.

Starting services sure so I found that our dining staff is very helpful and want to make sure that our students eat at the end of the day and so, if they are aware or if we are aware we try to work closely with them to get the student. The type of food that they need you know, sometimes it's a matter of the student is that reading the labels are there just kind of looking at something and assuming that? Maybe. That's not you know that they can't eat it so really it's about asking questions and.

Reading the labels that are on there 'cause, you know if you just look at the Food and say, Oh, that has me in it, and then you find out later, Oh wait that that wasn't me that was actually site air and so it's really about asking questions and they are more than willing to to answer those questions and if they don't know they're you know they're happy to find reach out to the shop and that's the chef if there's something in the food that the student baby is allergic to, I found that the more communication. We have with them.

The easier it is for them to make sure that those types of foods are available to the students and that at the end of the day of the students doing the nutrition. They need at our dining services provider is Parkhurst Parkers was new to our campus at the fall beginning of last year and they will continue on with us and we continue to work with them and with our student representatives and leaders to hear. Where is the food service working and and hitting the right notes and where do we have room for improvement?

What can we change and refining that kind of an ongoing basis and so I just really appreciate having responsive dining services staff and folks who are as invested in supporting our students. I think it's we are.

So well take so thank you so much for being here to talk about living in learning. I'm going to invite Jesse Leonard to take your seat if that's OK and working that kind of transition to talk about safety on campus and public safety, but it was a pleasure. If there are more questions about living learning, Please send this way will get them answered one way or the other, but I'm sure you look for developing folks are Justin Leonard, where are you?

Welcome to the hot seat is right, I feel like it's like Welcome to to coffee talk with Linda Richman. The parents will understand that the students will be like? What is going on? And so one of the questions that?

We frequently get on campus is you know sort of do students feel safe? How safe are they where is our kind of community policing mindset and you also or a lot of Juniata and have some history here to sort of share bring an informed, I'm sure your work as director of public safety. Can you talk a little bit about what the field of campuses around around safety and slide on the screen there?

I'll under that as well as I speak to kind of the general perceptions. This is a little bit of how the officers feel too. We have a mission statement that talks about protecting college assets. And it's very formal about supporting the mission, and that the college. This statement on the screen is something that the officers had written a couple years ago that they subscribe to and I think it's important to know that it's a very student centered approach and and generally. I think our students feel safe on campus. Some assessments, we have indicated that some external.

Groups have recognized us for that's why I think in general, the students do feel safe. What's nice, too, is that our community engagement, policing strategies, and the openness that we have if student doesn't feel safe. There's something we can address like some lights or improvements to certain things or approaches that we can take to help students feel safer where open it. Welcome to doing that, too, so you know, I was talking to one of my colleagues from another campus and we were just talking about the different roles and.

Responsibilities of of students and her son is a student here at Judy Anna and she was saying, You know, one of the differences that she sees with our public safety offices. They are very student focused in terms of building relationships with students not just sort of enforcing rules with students. Can you talk about the balance? Why that's important? Yeah, it's well it's incredibly important in the research would indicate that meaningful relationships are good indicators of success in college and I've always said that.

There's no reason that that can't be with a public safety officer there. Many of them have been here for years. They know where to go? Where to get your car fixed their engaged community members as well. And so we can meet students not just on a safety need but uh service need as well. So it's it's a way for us to be engaged all around and the relationship I think is one of protection and support. It's not a contentious relationship or a cat and mouse relationship. It's it's a way for us to engage the students.

And in a variety of different issues, not just said policing and enforcement kind of thing, yeah, so if you know if students. Go home and you know they say mom dad really got to know officer miles. I've really gotta know officer sleep. We don't have to worry. That means spending time and that is perfectly.

Uh Well, you know, so crime on campus seems to be an issue. If you open up a newspaper pick up a book. You're going to hear about you know safety issues and we engage in some reporting around crimes. Can you talk a little bit about some of the risks the real risks that students might encounter and sort of what we do to help them stay safe and secure their belongings and things like that, yeah, so that clearly, stats are are on the website if you wanted to dive into that and largely there.

Some zeros and ones, but I don't think we're immune from typical college issues but you know, we try to be proactive and educational. Whether it is walking with a friend walking with buddy, calling us to use our escort service.

Different programs that we do as well as.

Last night my train of thought there but when I think about you know student safety. I think about what our students doing that, you know, kind of put their safety at risk and it is a student who is all set up in the library and need to go to lunch and leave their laptop and their books around and you know, those sorts of opportunistic moments, which generally always almost workout OK but occasionally students find.

Something happens to their things so most of the time that's their snacks that are missing right. The books in the cell Phone are still there, but the snacks are gone, but yeah, there are times so there's opportunities for us to educate lock your door secure valuables iPhones and sell the solar devices are very small and can walk off. But you know, we have a good recovery rate to even bicycles when there are a lot of times we get them back 'cause. They've been registered and we can reach out to the students say we found it. I know Jesse's office is right.

Across from mine and so I remember last semester student, knocking on your door and saying Jesse Jesse. My book bag was stolen from Baker. And if you go into bigger dining Hall. You know the students just dropped their banks. I mean, it's like wasteland of 1000 book bags outside Baker and I remember you kind of responding to the student and there's some cameras and that space. It wasn't the book bag was stolen so the student forgot her book bag.

And so the cameras were really helpful in that moment just to kind of jog his memory.

He talked a little bit about bikes to students bring bikes to keep us. Yes, we can talk bikes and cars, a little bit. We had lots of students that frankly popular means of transportation, the registration for the bicycle is free will give him an A decal so that if in the event. It is borrowed or misplaced or sometimes chained up and location where they put it, we can identify and get it back to him. So yeah, we do have a lot of students that will register their bicycles free and we do have states that bring some cars. the Mac will highlight some of the first year student.

Wearing yellow first year students are required to to bring cars. The little graph at the bottom with the Reddit Redline. Some parents like to see that that number goes down over overtime. We've had less and less students bring cars so there's ample parking available for those students as well. And in some of that's just kind of their mind. Some other national trends about waiting longer to keep your drivers license in about 1/3 of our students will bring a car so there is someone on the floor good way to make friends or to.

Find a friendly get a ride to the various grocery stores or coffee shop pizza shops. The college town things that we have so and what about the bike share can you tell me a little bit about the bike sharing all sustainability is important ginia?

The informal it is not uncommon for sometimes on a Saturday night, 1st in who needs the convenience store hot dogs. Later in the evening to find 2 for a dollar for dollar to find a unsecured bicycle and take it down to the local Sheetz gas station and cheese will call us. The next day and say we have some bikes down here. So they they made their way down the Hill on the bike that was too much to write it back so we will.

We will go and retrieve those how many get it, informal by by borrowing well. We have officers on duty 24 hours a day 7 days a week, 365 days a year, you know, we have that coverage and support and we encourage students. I think from day one or even from their first visit to put that Juniata Public Safety number in their phone and so as a parent. I say affirm that it is in you know in your students Phone ice JCPS.

814-641-3636 as parents, you 2 can put the Phone number in Jesse folks expect when they call that number, yeah, so that numbers monitor 24/7. If the officer is in the office. They can answer it via their walkie talkie. I didn't bring a visual aid. I promise it will be and the student can ask a question or share their concern or whatever. They may need in the officer will talk back and they'll be a series of beeps just as if it was on a walkie talkie so yeah.

That is 24/7 monitored R Radio does have direct radio contact with the nine one. One dispatch center in town. So thankfully for us. The ambulance station is closed. The fire station is close to the hospital is closer at very good location. For those emergency resources to be to be quick and responsive in the emergency line is just one way for us to get the information and get the service. So who else kind of contributes to safety practices in response on keep us, yeah, and it is a community effort there's lots of.

Asia and the resident assistance and even our partners in student activities in campus engagement. Our late night programming. We have lots of partners even though the counselors Health Center. The college nurse there. All sets of eyes and ears with regular communication to help us keep our students safe and keep our students well so it's not solely the Department of Public Safety's responsibility. We have lots of engagement and partnerships. I really feel like the ethos of campus is that it's.

All of us watching out for all of us and so it is with some frequency that students will call. I think public safety or the Dean of students office or parents will reach out and say you know what I'm just noticed that the behavior of so and so is changed or I'm alarmed by what I heard and you know could you just have someone reach out and ask a question and we do that and more often than not find out that the student is OK and they appreciate having been.

Having been talked to or or inquire with, but but that our community is really mindful and purposeful in in attending to those kinds of things.

Do you have any you know, kind of other advice? Are there things that students need to be thinking up as they sortof?

Approach campus or their safety practices, or you know things that they need to employ People need to bring a little safer there, Madison or do they need to?

So do you know it's there's a level of comfort you may have with how you secure belongings whether that's in your desk? Are you know with a lot of students will bring a lock box. We have a safe and public safety to that we can utilize for larger items, if it's a temporary thing we can, we can how some stuff as well. So yeah, so some conversations around securing your valuables and being safe and making kind of safe choices and like like you had just mentioned it.

Incredibly important piece of our work is that community aspect still.

Where community oriented but there's a community policing to the students in the campus community to looking out for each other being mindful of vigilant part that makes it a key for us you know. In addition to sort of responsiveness around public safety. We do know that sometimes students will make crushable choices and I'll be honest. When I came to my campus. Unfortunately didn't find Juniata in time for my undergrad, but

When when I got to my campus my mom. You know introduced me to the public safety officer and I thought it was because my mom wanted me to be connected to safety resources and later I found out she was just pointing me out to them. She thought I'd be a problem was, it, although I had certainly my share of moments where People got to pull me in and help me understand the consequences of my choices can you talk a little bit about students?

Make a mistake or or you know, kind of violate our Community Center. It's what happens? What is our process around conduct if it originates through public safety. It's typically referred to the student code of conduct process with the goal there for it to be reflective educational teachable moment and facilitating a discussion about the choices that were made. Not only how they've impacted the individual. The consequences that were or not or could have been.

And then largely looking at restoring that that restoring that standing with us as a College in the community. When those choices kind of heart in line with our standards. You know, we want to work with the student to kind of reflect and engage in what it means to get back to being in good standing. Yeah, it's interesting to me. I'm not at all surprised but students you know really kind of hold their reputation in high regard as a Dean when I said with them sometimes, and I say you know why.

This is last time we expected you what do you think you need to do is sort of make things right with your peers with your professors you know with with the People who had the faith to bring you into this community. You know what I'll be thinking. Maybe they could put up a bulletin board or something right and I'll say What do you think you should do and they come back with a laundry list of sort of restorative practices and I'm like pick one that's too much keep track of.

I do think helping the student choose an educational response that has salience for them and and helps them make meaning of of what's going on? Is is valuable?

Well, you know the other questions. Sometimes I get about about conducts an invite your questions, too. Don't forget about our chat box in our question box, but one of the questions that I get sometimes from students in for parents is around alcohol and sort of this sensibility that college is just sort of overflowing with a party sentimentality. Can you talk a little bit about alcohol on campus and how students you know?

Sometimes make use of it, sometimes don't what? What are the kinds of feelings about engagement Q Plus I've always thought that it is around there's not a large culture of where it will find you but if you want to go. Look for it. You could find it or will find it in the students is not all but some will engage.

Use of alcohol, I consistently term of choice, so to speak, but yeah, generally too. They make good and safe responsible decisions. So if they do choose to drink. They've told us that they like to stick to one type of beverage and they have strategies for accounting and so even when they do. They tend to be responsible or or are safe and that never said. Sometimes they don't make a poor choice. We we work with them to kind of reflect and evaluate it. Yeah, I mean, our sensibility from.

Serving students is that they continue you know, some of the habits that they have developed or bring with them. You know certainly college is a place where they're going to explore some new possibilities, but generally this isn't sort of a first time experience for students and consistently about 1/3 of our students will say that they are not drinkers that that is just not part of who they are, and what they enjoy a little over 1/3 of students will say that they are occasional or infrequent drinkers and then there's a third.

Students you know who take part more frequently and in alcohol related activities and across all of those domains. We want to be supportive of students as they make choices about risk and responsibility, and watching out for one another and kind of engaging in practices wear harms are reduced and risks are avoided To that end, you know, we've really. I think taken advantage of some grants that allow us to do that through programming through conversation through pure norming through bystander.

Behavior intervention activities and so for students who want to be apart of those efforts. We have campus activities available for them to get engaged in pure behavior change advocacy for students who just want to have fun without alcohol. There, a lot of alternatives and on weekends. An incredible amount of things to do, including nurfc battles in the BA see almost every Friday night.

And so many serious I got invited I realize just how bad. I am at North battles when I left with some unfortunate bruising.

You know we also kind of want to address well this and the practices of students around their mental health in their physical health. We know that students come to us with a variety of coping mechanisms and strategies for success and some challenges and that college students in general encounter a lot of stress and distress and success and we want to create an environment where they can be successful and.

Healthy and so we provide I think resources on keep us around mental health and I know public safety contributes to and supports the access of students to those resources around physical health and then around proactive health management and so To that end, we have a robust counseling service, where students are able to access clinicians and take advantage of one on one or a small group counseling or.

Skill development around mental health and problem solving and those sessions are included generally with the student fee that health and Wellness. Feet are conditions are licensed in Pennsylvania. There professional conditions. We also have students who will create relationships with community partners and we have a number of those that we can make referrals, too. And so right now, even we have students who are reaching out to ask questions about.

Mental health and the kinds of sports that they can find her in and we welcome those.

Um we also sort of help facilitate students in their access to medications and prescriptions. We have a psychiatrist with whom we work and that can provide some of that guidance and care for students is there away from home and family physicians and then also our counseling services follows of course, HIPAA practices confidentiality purchases and so students.

As adults you know have a right to the confidentiality of their records and counselors will only sort of chair reflect with families with with the permission of students.

Can you talk a little bit Jesse In addition to counseling services about our health service and some of the physician care that we provide yeah, so we do have physician on staff 2 days a week or 2 full days and then we have a night clinic as well as well as well resourced and connected.

For an access for the students that is included with the services health services fees. An often public safety's. The transportation to and from the metrics. One students are are under the weather need help. Getting there and to the college starts by HIPAA and follows all those regulations that are fairly well resourced. But if there's a resource that we don't have but it's well connected with the hospital being so close.

Yeah, we can get that the students. The sources that they do need so we do some labs. We do infusions. We do immunizations. We do you know will do blood draws will do tests for students and with students they can receive reproductive health care clinic and so I think services that are provided are really pretty expensive and then you know referrals are made for students to urgent care after hours or to the emergency room and say.

Really present with a need but generally speaking, I think our health services. You know provides that home away from home for students when their sick and it's really hard. I think especially that first time as a student when you're sick and you just want someone to sort of put wet washcloth on your forehead and tell you, it's going to be OK and make you some easy Mac and you don't have you can go to the health service and get some cough medicine and some care. I say you know a lot of times to students that Healthcare is certainly.

Most accessible for you know sniffles sneezes bumps and Wheezes and then a lot of stuff beyond that, as well.

You know the best healthcare, though, is preventative right and as a person who has staff at work overnights. I'm sure that you can test the fact that students don't sleep enough. Yeah, I often wonder why we closed the buildings and then we do, and sometimes it's important to say OK, you know it's now. It's time to get some sleep and the importance of that as well sleep plays into the overall Wellness and being well. So yeah, so you know, we do some programming room proactive.

Self management and encouraging students to engage and healthy habits and we know that's messaging that has happened in and from families as long as students have been around and I always say to parents when I talk with them. How many of you have ever said to your student. I think it's time for you to go to sleep. I think I think it's time for you to eat more broccoli. I think it's time for you to go outside and get some exercise. We continue to share those kinds of messages and habits because we know that college.

Is that moment when students will form some of the habits that bound them for life and if they don't do it here. They may not do it effectively and and we want them to walk away. Not just with a great education, not just with the knowledge and skills that will make them successful in the workplace, but also with the attitude and framework that will keep them healthy and well and so we really want to encourage those behaviours and Interestingly. We have such a beautiful environment in which for students to take.

Part in some of those activities and recreation and outdoors. I know that you know you've been a part of some of our inbounds around hiking and getting out. Can you talk a little bit about some of the activities you see some that are very close proximity to campus is the peace Chapel, which is always a nice walk in the fall. Good time and place for reflection. We have some cliffs that need to be alarmed, but they're somewhat close in students can go up there and take in the Valley.

Oh, it's beautiful, Italian women.

Sun is setting in the train is going up coming through the Valley and then the Lake being in such close proximity with some of the world class mountain biking in bike trails and hiking trails. The students will use the River to kayak and fish for taking the outdoors. So yeah, there's a wealth of different 1000 steps is always 1000 steps 1000 steps. It's more than 1000. It's a lie. It is like 1400 steps and everyone after 100 is excruciating yes and for and.

Older person like me and then you have to come back down. So yes, it but the scene at the Top is.

I was take the dogs and I blame, it on the dark side like how Bilbo looks really tired. We should probably expect out well. I am a part of the hiking inbound. I just found out I'm a part of the hiking involved this year. They took me off camping, which breaks my heart, but will be going out to 1000 steps and so I've gotta start now kind of working up to that because wow, I'll be feeling it for days.

You know the other thing I wanted. I want to address always you know sort of with students and with families. You know is our expectation in our culture around reducing interpersonal violence and we know from the news and from our serving and from statistics that students encounter experiences interpersonal violence. Far too often at anytime with student counters an experience personal violence. It will be far too often until there are none.

And we are committed to an environment free of sexual harassment dating violence, stocking and sexual assault and working with students as they encounter those issues on campus and so.

I know that we have programs in place we have efforts that are ongoing. We've been working at this now for a number of years through a grant funded program and we will actually explore much, much more of that programming and the culture building that we're doing next week on the it's on us webcast and so I won't kind of duplicate all of those specifics by talking about him here, but

I would be not doing my due diligence and talking to students and parents we didn't say this is an important part of our culture. This is an important message that we need to continue to talk about and find solutions for on campus.

So you know this is a webcast. We have students watching we're parents watching. We have families who are taking part and To that end, you know this is a message that we often timeshare with families and parents at at orientation. Sessions and so one of the questions we get is how can families help or what can we do as parents in those times when a student calls and there in distress and we're a couple hours away or half days drive away? How do we?

Kind of connect it and I know you've had those moments of those Phone calls. You know what, if I super in the table, Jesse.

Yeah, I hate to read this slide, but they're they're valuable points to listen and not judge to support them try to help them reason, the support that they need and then you know encourage them to come. See us students office. Oregon quest or or within connections that they have made because more often than not those connections can help point them in the right direction to the to the places and support that they would need so.

Yeah, you know, so you know, we have faculty and we have staff on our campus who have a very strong commitment to helping to helping students find their way to helping them find their passion to helping them find their outcomes that aspiration's. It is a life's work. It is a vocation a calling to be in this place and to live out the trust that families in students put in us and when a student approaches and there in distressed.

It is one of the greatest gifts to be able to work with that student and find a solution and help them develop skills and capacities that are going to serve them in that moment and beyond. And so as families know that we're here, we're here to partner with your student. We're here to partner with you. We're all moving in the same direction and that is to make sure that your student is graduating walking across that Stage 4 years after the day they land on campus To that end, we are committed and you are committed.

And so we do invite you know the input of families and we know when students have questions. The most influential lever out there for them is parents. It's the 1st place, they go to ask for an answer for a console for advice for guidance and To that end, we want parents to be connected with us as much as we want students to be connected with us. And so, if you observe something if you note, something if you're curious are questioning something please.

Call.

Please call in and let us know what you're seeing and likewise you know as serious issues emerge will make contact with families and typically we will do that through the student. It's not uncommon for me as I'm sitting with a student to say have you talked to your mom or your dad or your family about that more often than not students will have? But if not I say what if we reach out to them together? Can we make that Phone call together typically we do.

On rare occasion and you know, and issues of life safety or health. Aurora serious distressed will do that. As a deed staff reach out to families as well so students and family should feel confident about that.

Uhm I will will note that we have that it's on a session next week. Same time, same bat channel and so invite you back to join colleagues for that conversation. We're still here to answer a few more questions. If you have them and so invite any lingering inquiries and sort of the last thing that I have to share really is a perspective piece, you know when a student comes in.

To my space, I don't presume to know the full weight of their experience or what they're bringing to the table. Another question that they're asking or the real question that they are asking and likewise. I have experiences or families call and share a portion of the experience that a student has has shared and it builds on something that we've observed or seen and together we find out that the whole is bigger or different than any of us imagined at once and we find a solution that's suitable.

And serves the student Baston and so this is a visual that I think kind of captures that and and I always share with families.

We did have a question about DCB can you clarify how you can use the CD will scooch over and crowded. I love it. I feel like I'm seeing the boarding which is always been something I aspired to do so welcome back to Asia were asking about how you can use.

And so students get about 100 or 200 or sometimes more if you know families or generous or students. Reequip their cart. But tell me a little bit about DCD in its many uses sure so we have kind of two sets of DCB so there's one next associated with what this DC.

And so if we have kind of two sets one that's associated with a meal plan. And then another set that can be added that stays with the student for their throughout their 40 years at college so the money. That's associated with the meal plan expires at the end of the academic year, whereas the other amount again continues for the four years. It's essentially cash that you have on your gold card that you can use.

Different retail places on campus until specifically like the food retail, so if you want to go to.

Eagles now general theaters Boca ran to get like a sandwich or coffee or snack couple of different places that have different items and and so you can kind of use your DCP to purchase things from for those specific retail.

Diving places I'm a vanilla ice Chai a generous person almost 100% of the time and then also game fuel from the library to the right. It takes so do you see these great 'cause it gives students and flexibility and when they're on the go? They can they can grab them and run any other questions out there and in family land?

One other thing I just thought he can also be used to enough. There want to invite family to bake her so they can use that bigger as well. If they want to spite for guest mom and dad went to visit and you want to be generous you can swipe your DCD in.

Brother sister do you need a membership to use the gym?

I I would need a sense of motivation to use that.

But no access to the fitness center is included students. You know make you some during hours, which are expensive. It's open from 5:30 AM until that data long past my bedtime.

Are there vegan options at the cafe? There are vegan options throughout the dining Hall? We have a specific station called V2? Which caters specifically to vegetarian and vegan entrees. There's always something available at V2 and then also at V2 students can make their own stir fries, so they can pick proteins and veggies and the chef will cook it up right there for them and I will tell you I'm not a vegan eat all all across the food chain, but I love the vegan food.

Bigger is tremendous and so I I think students become a little adventurous because options can be so good.

Um.

How do you get your health centers HIPAA form?

So students can access those forms from their condition as a counseling center or from the nurse or physician at the health service. They can sign hipper release for a family around a particular issue or a general release that will allow our nurse or the counseling clinician to share with family or with any other designee that the student has.

Do you use do you lose the DC be if not used by the end of the year?

So it depends if it's associated with the meal plan. If it is then. Yes, you lose it in May. But if it's the other amount that states with you there for years and you can add that through the bursars office that can stay with you and then you can take that money out. Once you're ready to graduate. DCD always you use? What comes with the meal plan. 1st and then you use the actual money that comes on the card so it comes off and I think appropriate order that way.

Off the questions are coming in fast and furious and we're loving it any others out there.

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Alright well, Jesse Tascia. Thank you both for being here, parents and families and students. Thank you all for being here. Rob was off campus or off Camera has been our technician appreciate that Molly Thompson help set up this series. Thank you might feel like I'm going to get played off will be sending this recorded video will be posting it on our parents.

Webpage few go to our site. We encourage you to visit the resources there, you can also see past webinars, including one on academic success, one on financial planning and of course, we invite you next week to be with us for it's on us and look forward to greeting you on campus in a few short months. A new question just one more question can you switch roommates if you don't like yours?

Yeah, and then we try that work with students, yeah, we like to distance or maybe what's going on before we make a switch, but something that we kind of do at the end of the fall semesters. We kind of open up floodgates to any room switches that students want to have without having to do mediation without any questions as long as they know that space is open. We can make sure that that happens before they before Winter Brook guidance around.

Roommates and switches is that nobody wins and ahead, but it's never about the room. Although I can feel sometimes like it's about the room. You know students in conflict to feel like a move is necessary. Both of them need to consider their out and both of them need to consider how and when they might have the opportunity to find that right person for them rather than feeling like they have a right to stay in the space and the other person should move so we try to keep that.

On the radar to that. Everyone has an opportunity to make a change in that situation that benefits Batman and benefits the other person.

Going once twice alright well. Thank you all, so much. It's been a pleasure to be here with you if you have additional questions. Please email them to meadeanofstudents@juniata.edu. We look forward to many happy returns as we connect with you semester after semester and your student day after day taken care wings up see you soon.