Following the success of the first annual Pennsylvania Wellness Institute, a second Institute was planned and taught the following year at the PASSHE Dixon University Center complex in Harrisburg. Click to open the full brochure: Second Annual PA Wellness Institute Brochure.PDF
This graduate course was different in that the topic had changed and retitled to Preventing Childhood Obesity: A Coordinated Approach. The new conference continued to utilize the same Institute teaching model as the Respiratory Health course taught the year previously, however the goal of the new program was to teach participants effective strategies for confronting and reducing the childhood obesity epidemic. 36 graduate students completed the course cross-listed with the Nursing Department.
Efforts to offer an online Wellness Institute that summer proved unsuccessful as we were unable to meet our enrollment targets. Several years later however, an online Respiratory Health professional development course was developed and taught using the Educational Workshop (EDW) model. The revised course proved highly successful.
Shown below are some of the marketing materials that were developed for the 2nd Annual Pennsylvania Wellness Institute and the graduate students who participated. Click here to read our letter to students about pre-institute assignments: 2nd Wellness Inst letter and assignments.PDF
