What is Healthy Carolina?
Healthy Carolina is…. a way of life.  It is the pursuit of health and wellness in mind, body, and spirit. It is the individual person, the environment and the community creating a culture and atmosphere that encourages healthy choices, healthy behaviors and a healthy place to live. It is a mission and vision born out of the desire to see USC as a healthy community to help our faculty, staff and students learn to thrive in life. 

Our Mission: To create a campus environment that encourages and promotes the development and maintenance of a healthy body, mind, and spirit through the collaborative assessment, development, and promotion of a wide array of wellness programs and services for all students, faculty and staff at the University of South Carolina.

Our Purpose: The purpose of this initiative is to guide the planning and implementation of programs, interventions and policies that support a healthy campus environment in which we live, learn, work, and play. This is accomplished through research, grant writing, dissemination of information, advocacy and collaboration.

What is Wellness? Wellness can mean different things to different people, but at the University of South Carolina, wellness is defined as a holistic, well-balanced approach to living that involves the mind, body and spirit. The University of South Carolina supports personal wellness because of its documented, direct impact on work, academic success and quality of life. Wellness is more than being free of illness or disease. There are actually six dimensions of wellness: physical, emotional, social, occupational, intellectual and spiritual. This is depicted in the wellness wheel below. If one component of this wheel is not developed, you may feel unbalanced in life.  The wellness wheel provides information and resources that can help you develop a balanced and healthy life.

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