The Center for Health Promotion
The Center for Health Promotion (CHP), which was established in June of 1998, has as its mission to initiate, participate in, and evaluate coordinated activities that enhance the health status of various target groups on local, state, regional, national, and international levels with particular emphasis on school aged children.
CHP's Goal & Objectives
The Center's goal is to create and/or support healthy communities, healthy adults, and healthy children through coordinated actions. The Center's objectives include: providing leadership for new and innovative health enhancement projects; distribute findings and materials through articles presentations, and /or workshops and seminars; promote and support health enhancing activities; and facilitate action that promote health. The staff in the Center for Health Promotion provide on-going expertise to Clark County school personnel in health related projects. School professionals can contact the Center directly for assistance in a myriad of health related evaluation activities including needs assessments, research design, and project evaluation strategies. In addition to the origination role of this project, the professionals in the CHP monitor, measure, verify, and report the program's impact.
What the CHP Is and Is Not
To help clarify the philosophical underpinnings of UNLV Center for Health Promotion, the following comparison is offered:
| The Center for Health Promotion is: | The Center for Health Promotion is not: |
A non-academic home. |
An academic department. |
A site of learning opportunities for students. |
Responsible for professional preparation of students. |
Multidisciplinary in nature. |
Discipline-specific. |
A home for "projects". |
A degree granting unit. |
A unit based upon faculty cooperation and interaction. |
An independent organization. |
A broad-based organization of school-home-community issues. |
Focused in isolated areas. |
Comprehensive in scope (e.g. Healthy People 2000). |
Limited to specific issues. |
Sensitive to all levels of governance (local, state, national, international). |
Government specific. |
A network of community agencies (volunteer). |
Restricted by boundaries. |
Consistent with the mission of the College and University. |
In opposition to college and campus goals and objectives. |
An entity that supports community goals. |
An competition with community visions. |
A self-supporting unit (funding). |
Dependent upon College/University/State monies. |