Click here to find the Wellness Ambassador in your department!
(Up-to-date as of October 8, 2024)
Wellness Ambassadors serve as liaisons between university-wide health and wellness information and their departments. They play a key role in communicating Healthy IU programs, resources, and events to their work teams, as well as communicating the general wellness and work+life needs of their work team to Healthy IU.
The purpose of the Healthy IU Wellness Ambassador Program is to promote well-being, support employee work+life needs, and increase awareness of wellness offerings on every IU campus. It seeks to:
IU strives to create a workplace where employees feel engaged and valued. Our well-being has a huge impact at work and beyond. Support for employee wellness is a major way supervisors and team members can engage and inspire in the workplace. We think it speaks directly to Question 5 on the university-wide My Voice at IU Engagement Survey, “My supervisor, or someone at work, seems to care about me as a person.”
There are 4 basic requirements of Healthy IU Wellness Ambassadors:
In addition to the basic requirements above, ambassadors are encouraged to become involved in ways that best fit their interests and expertise. Examples include:
Interested in becoming a Wellness Ambassador? The first step is watching an online orientation! Click here to view the orientation video.
After orientation, those who are still interested in being a Wellness Ambassador will confirm their interest and officially become part of the team by signing up here! (Make sure to get your supervisor’s support before you sign up!)
The time commitment for this program depends on how involved each Wellness Ambassador would like to be. The minimum time commitment each month is 1-2 hours. This time will include bi-annual meeting attendance, emailing and posting about programs, and participating in programs as often as desired.
Bi-annual meetings are your chance to share with and learn from other Wellness Ambassadors across the university! Bi-annual meetings are held on the last Friday in April and the first Friday in November. Wellness Ambassadors will receive an Outlook calendar invite to the meetings.
Wellness Ambassadors receive quarterly newsletters to help them stay inspired and connected to IU wellness resources. Newsletters are sent in February, June, September, and December.
If your work group allows special identifiers in email signatures, download and use the Wellness Ambassador logo to help colleagues more easily recognize you as an Ambassador.
Display your Wellness Ambassador status in Zoom meetings! Download the Wellness Ambassador virtual background. Check out the Zoom Help Center for details on how to use a virtual background.
Connecting the university-wide Healthy IU community to your program/event can inspire and inform.
Fill out the Healthy IU Social Media Sharing Form!
Email Healthy IU at healthyu@iu.edu if you have any questions. Healthy IU will review all program/event submissions, and if approved, will try to post the information within 2 weeks.
Everyone has a wellness story — each one is unique and inspiring. There are 8 Dimensions of Wellness, and wellness stories come in all shapes and sizes, on a variety of topics, in big and small actions.
Healthy IU has templates for starting departmental or individual wellness challenges on a range of topics. Learn more about Starting a Wellness Challenge.
