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Healthy Osprey

The Healthy Osprey mission is to promote the health and well-being of the UNF community. Through our diverse programs and services we will foster physical, emotional, and intellectual development which will lead to achieving and maintaining holistic health.

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Programs and Services

Healthy Osprey Wellness Advocate

Our mission is to provide awareness to participants of their own aspirations and strengths that empower them to attain a healthy lifestyle. Wellness advocacy explores the 7 dimensions of wellness through one-on-one individualized sessions. Advocates develop a wellness plan and refer individuals to on and off campus resources. We are committed to helping students, staff and faculty attain their personal goals. 

Healthy Osprey Wellness Advocacy is a free service provided by the Department of Recreation and Wellness. To schedule an appointment call us at (904) 620-4769.

Wellness Guides

The Healthy Ospreys provide a variety of local and online resources for health topics such as physical health, mental health and sexual health. For more information, visit the Wellness Guides page.

Shaping the Future of Health and Well-Being at UNF Together!  

Healthy Osprey will continue to strengthen a culture of health and wellness at UNF by advancing a coordinated, evidence-informed, and holistic approach to student well-being. 

Healthy Osprey Strategic Priority Areas for 2026-2027
Priority Area Focus Strategic Goal Strategic Objectives
Student Capacity and Coping Strengthen students’ ability to manage stress, anxiety, procrastination, and the growing impact of external pressures such as academics, career and life. Develop a coordinated approach that builds student coping capacity, resilience, help-seeking, and academic self-management. 
  1. Expand education and outreach related to time management, self-regulation, stress response, and coping skills.  
  2. Strengthen connections between wellness supports and academic success services.  
  3. Increase visibility of support pathways for students experiencing high stress or academic anxiety. 
 
Connection, Safety, and Relationship Health Address loneliness, relationship health, sexual health, and interpersonal violence while creating stronger conditions for connection and belonging.  Advance relationship health, belonging, safety, and violence prevention through education, connection, and collaborative intervention.
  1. Expand initiatives that foster peer connection, belonging, and healthy relationship skills.  
  2. Increase coordinated prevention and education related to consent, sexual health, and interpersonal violence.  
  3. Align campus partners around a stronger continuum of education, response, and referral.  
  4. Expand education and prevention efforts addressing hazing and unhealthy group dynamics, with a focus on establishing boundaries, fostering healthy relationship development, and reducing reliance on harmful bonding practices.
 
Healthy Behaviors and Preventative Care Promote foundational behaviors that support student well-being, including sleep, nutrition, preventative care, vaccination, and self-care.  Increase awareness, access, and engagement in behaviors that support long-term health, readiness to learn, and everyday functioning.  
  1. Increase education and outreach around sleep health, daily wellness habits, self-care, and prevention.  
  2. Improve awareness and access to preventative care services and health promotion supports.  
  3. Strengthen nutrition and physical health messaging through both in-person and virtual channels. 
 
Substance Use and Risk Reduction Address changing patterns of substance use, especially emerging and non-traditional substances, through prevention, education, and harm reduction.  Develop a responsive and education-based approach to emerging substance use trends that supports informed decision-making, risk reduction, and timely intervention.  
  1. Update prevention education to address new and emerging substances.  
  2. Strengthen campus collaboration and information-sharing around substance use trends and student risk.  
  3. Expand awareness of support, referral, and early intervention options. 
  4. Expand prevention and education efforts to address emerging risk behaviors, including gambling, with attention to co-occurring concerns such as alcohol use, loneliness, and stress.
 
Access, Coordination, and Campus Environment Address the system-level conditions that shape whether students can easily find, access, and benefit from wellness support.  Create a more visible, accessible, and coordinated campus framework for wellness that supports students across all priority areas. 
  1. Improve communication, resource navigation, and consistent wellness messaging across campus.  
  2. Strengthen program assessment, accountability, and alignment to Healthy Osprey’s mission.  
  3. Advance unfinished strategic work related to accessibility audits, focus groups on perceived access, and dissemination of annual initiative/resource information.  

SEM Alignment 

The Socio-Ecological Model is defined as:

  • Organizational: communication, service access, referral systems, coordination.  
  • Community: campus-wide visibility and shared ownership.  
  • Policy/Environment: structures and systems that make it easier to access care and wellness support.  

Faculty and Staff Well-Being  

Focus

Strengthen a culture of well-being that supports faculty and staff health, capacity, and connection by addressing both individual behaviors and organizational conditions that influence wellness. 

Strategic Goal

Advance a comprehensive, evidence-informed approach to faculty and staff well-being that reduces barriers to healthy choices, improves awareness and access to resources, and strengthens workplace culture, connection, and support. 

Strategic Objectives 

  • Increase awareness of Healthy Osprey resources among faculty and staff through consistent, centralized communication strategies. 
  • Reduce structural barriers to wellness by addressing time, workload, and access considerations. 
  • Expand opportunities for faculty and staff to engage in health behaviors that support physical, mental, and emotional well-being. 
  • Strengthen workplace culture through initiatives that promote belonging, recognition, and supportive leadership practices. 

Okanagan Charter

The University of North Florida has formally adopted the “Okanagan Charter: An International Charter for Health Promoting Universities and Colleges” that places health and well-being of students, faculty and staff at the forefront. UNF is part of a cohort of seven universities in the United States that adopted the charter on Sept.1, collectively joining the United States Health Promoting Campuses Network (USHPCN).

Created in June 2015, the Okanagan Charter provides institutions with a common language, principles and framework to effectively promote health and well-being on their campuses. Health promoting Universities aspire to transform the health and sustainability of current and future societies, strengthen communities and contribute to the well-being of people, places and the planet.
 

UNF Goals

The goal is for UNF students to flourish inside and outside of the classroom by using strategies such as:
  • Cultivating character, enhancing resilience and developing habits of mind and spirit
  • Adopting a holistic and comprehensive approach to mental health
  • Collaborating with UNF Academic Affairs to embed well-being programming into the process of recruitment, registration and retention
  • Fostering conditions that enable students to thrive and addressing behaviors that lead to languish