Strategic Plan. Achieving our 2020 vision. Faculty of Health Sciences

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1 Strategi Plan Ahieving our 00 vision Faulty of Health Sienes

2 Our Values guide our ations Health and Understanding, promoting, and influening the holisti well-eing of self and others Our Vision To e a national leader in health and wellness undergraduate eduation Our Mission Through exellene in teahing, experiential learning, sholarship and engagement, we prepare the next generation of leaders who strive to foster health and wellness for individuals and ommunities Our faulty strives to inspire individuals to eome health and wellness leaders in the loal ommunity + eyond Exellene Creating a student-entred, evidene-ased, estpratie founded, aademi environment Collaoration Enouraging teamwork, reating partnerships, and promoting interdisiplinary onnetions Professionalism Taking responsiility, eing aountale and engaged, upholding standards of pratie Respet Behaving in ways to honour differenes, and to uild trust, ollegiality, transpareny, and fairness

3 Our Strategi Suess Suess Capaity We deliver learner-entred, quality eduation with We support innovative teahing and learning, ommunity-foused researh, sholarship and shared ative student engagement. Small lass sizes with dediated faulty memers ensure an enrihed student experiene where experiential learning is servie. We see the Fraser Valley as an extension of our lassroom and support students, faulty and staff in enrihing ommunity outreah opportunities through our health sienes programs and Healthy YOU-FV. We deliver interdisiplinary, indigenized and international opportunities that Capaity Workplae Communiating our Suess emphasized. Our graduates are ommunity prepared to take on gloal issues Health and We develop quality, innovative and sustainale health and wellness programs that prepare our students to meet the needs of the ommunities we serve support inlusive learning perspetives Workplae We work in a positive, ollegial environment that supports and reognizes est praties in teahing, sholarship, researh and servie. We are aountale, innovative and ollaorative. Values-ased ehaviours demonstrate our ommitment to making UFV the est plae to work and the est plae to study Communiating our Suess We ommuniate and elerate the expertise, ahievements and suess of students, faulty and staff. Through a proative and responsive approah oth loally and eyond, we will inrease our Ahieving our 00 vision regional and national visiility 5

4 Strategi Ahieving Suess Program Speifi Ation to Ahieve Faulty Ojetives Ojetives Investigate hyrid Certified Assistant (CDA) learning opportunities utilizing urrent online learning and dental tehnology Moilize a CDA Assoiation and engage alumni to offer perspetives on life-long learning Expand inter-disiplinary learning opportunities within Health Sienes suh as simulation Estalish annual Faulty of Health Sienes (FHS) Professional Development event for students to engage with alumni and other speakers, highlighting professional opportunities within the health setor Suess Capaity Workplae Communiating our Suess Faulty Ojetives 1 Enhane student experiential learning with enrihed linial and ommunityased opportunities Support and foster student self-direted and lifelong learning Deliver state-of-the-art urriula utilizing inlusive and innovative teahing strategies Ojetives Ojetives Ahieving our Support faulty professional development related to teahing and learning sholarship 00 vision 7 d Enhane pratiums and applied skill development y expanding and emedding pratium opportunities into the (KIN) urriulum Explore the estalishment of an internship program Estalish and support an annual Day event reated for and y students highlighting professional opportunities with alumni and other speakers from diverse roles within KIN professions Explore a apstone ourse whih enompasses an integration of the KIN su-disiplines and professional pratie philosophy Estalish annual FHS Professional Development event for students to engage with alumni and other speakers, highlighting professional opportunities within the health setor Create a formal honours undergraduate degree program Revitalize the exerise siene and pedagogy majors urriula to redue ourse repetition and overlap Support faulty memer professional development related to implementing innovative teahing strategies Deliver nationally reognized ertifiation offerings emedded within the degree struture Estalish new linial plaements aross Fraser Valley ommunities. For example, explore opportunities within loal aoriginal ommunities; populations served y Chilliwak 5-Corners; new inter-disiplinary partnerships suh as with the Justie Institute Inrease opportunities for students to explore areas of linial interest through linial plaements and Direted Studies ourses Develop peer mentoring opportunities inluding involvement in UFV Learning Groups (SLG) program Support students in the development of their o-urriular reords Estalish annual FHS Professional Development event for students to engage with alumni and other speakers, highlighting professional opportunities within the health setor Expand the use of Simulation learning to support linial, lassroom, and inter-professional learning opportunities Emed a gloal and indigenized health fous aross urriula

5 Strategi Suess Capaity Workplae Communiating our Suess Ahieving Faulty Ojetives 1 Develop programming to antiipate and address future health resoure needs Create and deliver stand-alone redentials and ertifiations in health and wellness Develop ollaorative multi-disiplinary projets and programming Program Speifi Ation to Ahieve Faulty Ojetives Ojetives Ojetives Ojetives 1 Create a working group to onsider dental resoures in the Fraser Valley and explore ollaorative opportunities for new lini initiatives Together with Continuing Studies, reate and deliver Continuing Eduation ourses required y dental professionals in the Fraser Valley Engage ollaorative, multi-disiplinary programming opportunities within health and wellness 1 Create an ad-ho ommittee to investigate and provide data relative to future kinesiology laour market demands Investigate the development of new programming (e.g., post-graduate ertifiates, diplomas or speialty ourses) Create an inter-disiplinary Health Sienes ourse in, for example, gloal health, healthy aging, nutrition, or aoriginal health 1 Collaorate with Fraser Health and other stakeholders to understand future requirements in health and wellness programming Investigate the development of ridging programs, for example healthare professionals trained outside of Canada Investigate and develop new ourses, programs, and/or initiatives fousing on the needs of health are pratitioners Develop a minimum of two new nursing eletive ourses Provide multi-disiplinary learning opportunities within the nursing programs that enhane ollaoration and promote health and wellness within loal health systems Investigate the feasiility of a multi-disiplinary ourse providing an opportunity to explore professional roles related to the promotion of health and wellness within loal health systems Ahieving our 00 vision 9

6 Strategi Ahieving Capaity Program Speifi Ation to Ahieve Faulty Ojetives Ojetives 1 Expand dental health servies to at-risk populations Create additional opportunities for fee-generating utilization of the dental lini Implement one speial event (ourse, open-house, workshop, et.) in the Clini or at Chilliwak Five Corners eah year Suess Capaity Workplae Communiating our Suess Faulty Ojetives 1 Engage our ommunity in partnerships as an integral part in ourse and servie delivery, and as a means to reate healthier ommunities Expand opportunities for internationalization, diversifiation, and indigenization of our urriula Inrease and support ommunity-foused and student-engaged researh and sholarship opportunities Ojetives Ojetives 1 Estalish offiial partnerships with ommunity organizations as an integral part in ourse and servie delivery (suh as, Fraser Health; Shool Distrits # & 4; Fraser Valley Child Development Centre; and Community of Aotsford/Chilliwak) Investigate international student and faulty exhange and study tour opportunities within KIN Inrease the enrollment of international students into the KIN program y working diretly with UFV International Eduation Designate BKin degree program seats to students who identify as Aoriginal Create opportunities for all students to e engaged in ommunity foused and student-engaged researh and sholarship opportunities Continue to support faulty in researh and sholarly ativity Create a ommunity advisory ommittee, with loal stakeholders, to explore ollaorative multidisiplinary servie and sholarship opportunities Maintain urrent partnerships with ommunity stakeholders Support ommunity engagement and uild ommunity apaity Healthy YOU-FV Designate nursing program seats to students who identify as having Aoriginal anestry Maintain and expand student study tours and student exhange programs Create a visiting sholar program Develop opportunities for students to engage in ation researh that meets and supports the needs of our ommunity Collaorate with our linial plaement partners in nursing researh Ahieving our and knowledge translation 00 vision 11

7 Strategi Ahieving Workplae Program Speifi Ation to Ahieve Faulty Ojetives Ojetives 1 Review and formalize mentoring approahes for new faulty and sessional instrutors, and develop internal ommuniation strategies Engage faulty and students in an annual FHS professional sharing onferene Inrease apaity for faulty engagement in servie and sholarly ativities (y inreasing the numer of sessional faulty), and review servie opportunities for all faulty and staff Suess Capaity Workplae Communiating our Suess Faulty Ojetives 1 Expand our mentoring programs for new faulty, sessional instrutors and staff Create and support professional events that ring FHS faulty and staff together to foster mutual understanding and respet Ensure the hannels of ommuniation within and etween FHS departments are nurtured and supported Ojetives Ojetives 1 Estalish formal mentoring partnerships to onnet senior faulty mentors with new and sessional faulty Create a workplae environment that honors respet, ollegiality, engagement, responsiility and ommitment to department values Host an annual UFV Health Sienes & Fraser Valley Health Conferene to promote Faulty of Health Siene initiatives; inorporate key notes and guest presenters representing a range of health and wellness areas of expertise. Investigate and support further hannels of ommuniation within the KIN department aross multiple ampuses Promote and support ollaorative initiatives y developing a i-term newsletter providing information updates addressing issues and identifying faulty and student aomplishments Ahieving our Estalish semester-end meetings etween faulty memers to failitate transitioning students etween suessive linial experienes 00 vision 1 Further develop and implement an orientation proess for new and sessional faulty and staff Identify ore ompetenies and reate on-line resoures for new and sessional faulty Estalish formal mentoring proesses etween senior faulty mentors and new and sessional faulty Estalish annual professional development days fousing on ollaorative urriulum, pedagogy, and researh development Review and revise faulty workload strutures inreasing onsisteny in work shedules and opportunity for servie and sholarship Develop monthly departmental e-newsletter providing information updates addressing issues and identifying faulty and student aomplishments Estalish opportunities for onversation/ommuniation within and aross nursing programs, for example through sharing irles

8 Strategi Communiating Our Suess Program Speifi Ation to Ahieve Faulty Ojetives Ojetives 1 Identify liaison plan etween dental faulty memers and Faulty Strategist in order to identify program suesses and inrease awareness and visiility of the CDA program in the ommunity Create yearly video ompilations of CDA student experienes for we and print program promotion Engage CDA alumni to share their stories and suesses in order to ommuniate program exellene Suess Capaity Workplae Communiating our Suess Faulty Ojetives 1 Commit Faulty human resoures to a new ommuniations position Develop a Faulty strategi ommuniations plan Engage urrent and past UFV health sienes students to ommuniate our suess Ojetives Ojetives Ahieving our 00 vision 15 Hire FHS Strategist Dediate udgetary resoures to support FHS Communiations/ program development Create organizational mehanisms for ommuniation and promotion of FHS ativities Strategi Communiations Plan to e ompleted no later than Deemer 015 Create effetive mehanisms for ommuniation (we, print, visual, soial media, et.) and desired outomes within UFV and to external onstituents Utilize the ommuniation plan in the reruitment of new students Identify liaison plan etween KIN faulty memers and ommuniations personnel in order to identify program suesses and inrease awareness and visiility of the KIN programs in the ommunity Create yearly video ompilations of KIN student experienes Engage urrent KIN students and alumni to share their stories and suesses in order to ommuniate program exellene Hire FHS Strategist Dediate udgetary resoures to support FHS Communiations/ program development Create organizational mehanisms for ommuniation and promotion of FHS ativities Strategi Communiations Plan to e ompleted no later than Deemer 015 Create effetive mehanisms for ommuniation (we, print, visual, soial media, et.) and desired outomes within UFV, and to external onstituents Utilize the ommuniation plan in the reruitment of new students Identify liaison plan etween nursing faulty memers and Faulty Health and Strategist in order to identify program suesses and inrease awareness and visiility of the programs in the ommunity Create yearly video ompilations of nursing student experienes Engage urrent nursing program students and alumni to share their stories and suesses in order to ommuniate program exellene

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