Healthy Campus
Our Mission is to have a campus community where everyone can enjoy physical and mental health and wellbeing to their full potential, where wellbeing is valued and supported and is everyone’s responsibility.
Our Vision
DkIT will be recognised as an organisation that adopts a holistic understanding of health, takes a whole campus approach and aspires to create a learning environment and organisational culture that enhances the health and wellbeing of all of our community and enables people to achieve their full potential.
With this approach, we hope to raise awareness of the resources that are available to support students and staff in their pursuit of health and wellbeing while making the best possible use of the array of facilities, knowledge, and services already in place.
Dr. Diarmuid O'Callaghan, President of DkIT said:
"I am delighted to introduce the inaugural DkIT Healthy Campus Plan. The positive health and wellbeing of our staff and students is the key driver to the completion of this plan... Our staff and students spend a significant amount of time on our campus and we want that to be an environment where they can flourish.
This Healthy Campus Plan seeks to further enhance and complement these activities by further promoting what we already do well; through collaboration and consultation developing additional initiatives and most importantly ongoing communication with our staff and students about DkIT Healthy Campus."
Mental Health
Raise increased awareness of mental wellbeing supports already available for students and staff on campus and through collaborations with external stakeholders provide additional resources and tools.
Healthy Environment
Increase the use of our campus by exploring the introduction of walking trails on campus, promote travel methods to college that increase physical activity and promote smoking reduction initiatives.
Sexual Health
Consolidate the existing activities, expanding where gaps have been identified and collaborating with external agencies e.g. Sexual wellbeing.ie; GUM clinic in Louth County Hospital etc.
Physical Activity
Develop a communication mechanism where all staff and students are easily aware of what and where physical activities are taking place across the Institute and how they can participate in any of these activities.
