Student Wellness Card Sort for Colleges & High Schools
"In addition to giving students autonomy in their wellness journey, this program elevated staff and faculty's view on how they might encourage and facilitate the well-being of students."
- Kaye Godbey, Coordinator of Wellness Programs, Marshall University
An engaging solution that promotes well-being at both the individual student and campus-wide level.
How it works:
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Interactive Card Sort Activity:
Using our simple digital platform, students sort 35 wellness priority cards, each grounded in the Eight Dimensions of Wellness, to help them clarify and articulate their mental health and well-being priorities.
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Downloadable Workbook:
Students receive a digital workbook, which guides them through developing a self-care action plan, highlights your school’s wellness resources, and encourages them to reach out for support.
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Aggregate Data Insights:
You'll receive aggregate data insights into students' reported wellness priorities, allowing for informed decision making and optimized resource allocation to meet their well-being needs.
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Proactive Wellness Programming:
Spend more time doing the health promotion and prevention work you love, by offering your students a proactive, holistic, campus-wide solution that helps improve the well-being of all of your students.
Embedding well-being into your individual department, or across your entire campus.
Orientation Programming
- Offer the card sort as an activity for students to do before they arrive on campus, &/or during the first week of school, to get them thinking about their well-being priorities & what they need to succeed as they transition to school.
- Use as a way to introduce the mental health & wellness resources available on campus.
- Highlight your school's commitment to helping new students take care of their well-being from day-one.
First Year Experience
- Include in your FYE curriculum to help normalize prioritizing mental health & well-being.
- Assign as pre-work & discuss wellness goals and strategies in pairs, small groups, &/or as a class.
- Help students develop critical life skills & build agency in advocating for their own well-being.
- Improve well-being literacy on campus.
Peer Mentoring & Education
- Use as a peer-to-peer mentoring tool for exploring and articulating mental health & well-being needs.
- Provide as a paired goal-setting activity.
- Use as a structure for support & accountability to help students following through with their well-being goals.
Wellness Programming
- Use as a homework assignment & discussion activity for wellness workshops & classes.
- Use in one-on-one wellness counseling sessions.
- Offer as a standing resource on your Wellness Services webpage.
- Encourage students to use the tool during Wellness & Stress Buster Weeks.
Counseling & Advising
- Offer as part of the intake process to help students prepare for individual or group counseling or advising sessions.
- Provide as a grounding exercise for students who are feeling overwhelmed or distressed.
- Use as a guide to help students develop a specific well-being goal and action steps for taking care of their mental health & well-being.
Residential Life Programming
- Help roommates & dorm communities talk openly with each other about their wellness priorities.
- Encourage them to support one another in reaching their goals & serve as accountability partners.
Athletics
- Provide as a pre-season wellness check-in & goal setting exercise for student athletes.
- Offer during times of high stress as a grounding & resilience building activity.
- Use for team-building , group support & accountability.
"The Wellness Card Sort gives us a current snapshot of student wellness priorities. We’re using this information to make strategic decisions about wellness programming to address student needs in the moment."
- Paula Fitzpatrick, Director, Center for Well-Being, Worcester Polytechnic Institute