Healthy Heels are all of us - people whose decisions impact our own wellness and the health of the UNC-Chapel Hill community. As a brand, we’re a collaboration between y’all and the students and staff at Campus Health, Student Wellness, Counseling & Psychological Services, the Heels Care Network, and Campus Recreation - working as a team to create a healthier campus. We use research to help us understand the best ways to support health at UNC. Here’s what know and believe:
We all have the right to reach our fullest potential and thrive. So we take a public health approach. We don’t just ask people to change individual behavior; we also make it easier for folks to make healthy choices by changing the campus environment. Wellness is holistic and intersecting. Your health influences your ability to succeed in reaching your academic goals. Everybody is different - what works for one person might not work for you. To create a healthy community, we need to bring identity, equity and disparities to the front of our consciousness. Access to quality health care, mental health, wellness promotion and recreational services improves health. Many of these at UNC have already been paid for in your fees, so don’t wait if you’re in need. We’re here to help. We can’t do this alone! We need your help. You are a critical part of the health and wellness landscape at UNC! What you say and do influences your wellbeing as well as the wellbeing of those around you. Thanks for helping to create a healthy UNC, you Healthy Heel, you! This page should not serve as a substitute for medical care. Healthy Heels in no way constitutes official University content. Posts are authored by Campus Health, Student Wellness & Counseling and Psychological Services staff. Statements and opinions expressed on the Healthy Heels social media platforms are strictly those of the authors and not of the University of North Carolina. Consistent with UNC-Chapel Hill’s Policy on Prohibited Discrimination, Harassment and Related Misconduct, and the North Carolina Campus Free Speech Act, we encourage your comments and opinions as they relate to our posts. This page is actively monitored for relevance. Carolina reserves the right to remove any comments that are not related to the particular post, make unsupported accusations, contain ad-hominem attacks, use obscene language or images, are blatant spam, contain advertisements, or contain inappropriate personal information or sensitive information. Repeated violation of these guidelines or behavior that substantially disrupts the maintenance of this page could result in a user being blocked from the page. Thanks for keeping the page enjoyable for everyone. Go Tar Heels!
