Working Towards Wellbeing on our Campuses

In 2016, UBC became one of the first post-secondary institutions in the world to adopt the Okanagan Charter, signaling a formal commitment to embedding health and wellbeing across all aspects of campus life. The launch of the Wellbeing Strategic Framework in 2019, re-affirmed this commitment, and provided community-driven targets for our campuses to collectively work towards achieving our vision to become a health and wellbeing promoting institution. 

This page outlines what we're collectively and collaboratively doing as a campus community to achieve those targets, and how we're doing it. While we look back in our Annual Report to share and celebrate the ways in which multiple departments, units, and student groups are working together to support system-wide change, here, we look forward to the key milestones that will help bring us closer to realizing those targets and keeping us accountable to that ambitious vision we set out for UBC to achieve. 

This is how together, we will create happier, healthier, more sustainable campus communities for everyone. 

Key milestones towards achieving our 2025 wellbeing targets 


Food and Nutrition Targets


Increase food security

Reduce food insecurity for UBC community members by 2025.

Key MilestoneUBC Wellbeing RoleLead Unit(s)Contributing Unit(s)
Launch Food Policy CouncilTBDTBDFSI Core Team, FNC, Food Systems Project
Launch Community Food Hub on both campusesLeadUBC WellbeingFSI Core Team, other campus partners 
Impactful community-informed affordability plan/poverty reduction strategySupport Enrolment Services and RegistrarTBD
Create an evaluation and monitoring framework

Lead

UBC Wellbeing FSI Core Team, Food and Nutrition Committee 

Healthy Beverage Consumption 

50% reduction in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption on our campuses by 2025

Key MilestoneUBC Wellbeing RoleLead Unit(s)Contributing Unit(s)
0% Sugar-sweetened beverages in vending machinesSupportSHCS*Food & Nutrition Committee
0% Sugar-sweetened beverages in residence dining halls SupportSHCSFood & Nutrition Committee
Launch of Healthy Beverage Initiative campus partnership program Support SHCSFood & Nutrition Committee
Publish peer reviewed journal article (#2) on HBI progress/data 

TBD

TBDFood & Nutrition Committee

*Student Housing and Community Services  

 Physical Activity Targets 


Move More

10% reduction in the prevalence of physical inactivity for UBC community members by 2025

Key MilestoneUBC Wellbeing RoleLead Unit(s)Contributing Unit(s)
Build virtual programming supports to support people to be active at homeSupportUBC Recreation Faculty of Kinesiology, Physical Activity Committee
    

Diverse Community, Diverse Programming 

10% increase in UBC community members' satisfaction with recreation facilities and programs by 2025

Key MilestoneUBC Wellbeing RoleLead Unit(s)Contributing Unit(s)
Develop and deploy an Inclusive Physical Activity Toolkit to build capacity for inclusive physical activity across our campuses. SupportPhysical Activity Office Faculty of Kinesiology, Physical Activity Committee

Align recreation and programming with actions and targets identified in the Indigenous Strategic Plan and Inclusion Action Plan. 

Support UBC Recreation Faculty of Kinesiology, Physical Activity Committee


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