Fair to promote positive health
Stacey Shimabukuro-Lui
Issue date: 10/26/09 Section: News
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The fair is a continuing effort to promote positive health and positive lifestyles among KCC students and staff. Three tents will be set up at the midday event with a variety of helpers to assist in wellness awareness.
Michaelyn Nakoa, a KCC counselor in the TRIO program, said she hopes people who attend the fair "will learn more about mental health and well being so students can be more successful in college and life."
The KCC wellness fairs of the past included popular activities hosted by various departments. The first fair offered a blood pressure check. The next semester hosted a student's body fat analysis activity.
This semester, a special interactive biofeedback area will be a featured place of interest. Here, individuals can better their understanding of stress in their own lives. The biofeedback equipment will engage students in learning to improve their own health.
Counselors from different departments will also be at the fair to answer questions and to pass out "healthy snacks" to complement the fit living theme. The snacks will be funded by OSA.
Another feature of the fair will be unique health and wellness displays made by several KCC psychology classes. According to Sharon Rota, an arts and sciences counselor, the involvement of the psychology classes makes it special because peers are involved in the teaching.
In conjunction with the displays, the fair will host the launching of a special website with resources for services KCC does not have on campus. These resources are focused on helping students with some aspect of their health.
As a final feature to the event, students will be asked to write reflection statements about their commitment to improve their health in the future. It is an effort to move one step closer towards better living.
The event is a partnership between the OSA and the mental health committee. The mental health committee is a group on the KCC campus made up of various counselors who work to help promote wellness on campus.
Said Sharon Rota, a KCC counselor involved with the fair and a member of the mental health committee, "We want the students to live healthily, to eat well and to live well."
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