KRISTIL TATUM-KNOX

Hours worked: 40 hours per week

• Designed and implemented wellness programs using the Social Ecological Model to prevent harmful health behaviors in university students, staff, faculty and the surrounding communities.

• Customized prevention education programs for sexual health and STIs, healthy relationships and communication, safe alcohol consumption, drug misuse and abuse prevention, sexual assault, hazing, bystander intervention, self-care, sleep health, nutrition, and stress management.

• Collaborated with campus and local community partners to provide educational workshops, outreach activities, discussions, presentations, and events that inform positive health behaviors.

• Conducted and interpreted campus-wide needs assessments and advised university administration of preventative efforts to employ in response.

• Directed and formalized the university's Peer Health Educator program by recruiting, hiring, training, monitoring, and managing all education and outreach efforts.

• Planned, developed, facilitated, supervised, assessed, analyzed, and documented all Wellness projects, and proposed recommendations to meet institutional and departmental strategic goals.

• Expanded program scope and efficacy to support academic performance and retention and to provide students with practical skills for maintaining lifelong health habits.

• Implemented research-based, campus-wide, health assessments and designed assessment tools guided by behavioral change models (such as the Transtheoretical Model and Social Cognitive Theory) to measure outcomes.

• Managed all budgets and purchases for the Wellness department.

• Launched original marketing materials and acquired unique promotional items to maximize engagement and enhance overall health education experiences.

• Developed ArgoWell: an institution-wide health initiative designed to instill the eight dimensions of wellbeing in all students, staff, and faculty and prevent negative health outcomes.

Hours worked: 20 hours per week

• Delivered lessons on personal wellbeing topics such as healthy relationships, mental wellbeing, stress management and resiliency, sleep, nutrition, physical fitness, self-image, alcohol and other drug education, sexual health, violence prevention, disease prevention, and the dimensions of wellbeing.

• Monitored student development proactively and intervened with a collaborative prevention plan to avoid academic decline.

• Collaborated with faculty and department members to ensure curriculum meets institutional and state standards.

Hours worked: 40 hours per week

• Served as the lead instructor for five separate evidence-based courses designed for older adults and medically underserved populations: Diabetes Empowerment Education (DEEP), Tai Chi for Arthritis, Powerful Tools for Caregivers - Caregiver Support Program, A Matter of Balance (Fall Prevention), and Chronic Disease Self-Management.

• Actively conducted educational programs for fall prevention and chronic disease prevention.

• Orchestrated grant-funded public health education services over four Florida counties to ensure that fidelity and grant deliverables were met.

• Successfully conducted ongoing recruitment to fill course rosters and meet participation targets through creative marketing and strategic networking.

• Supported the organization's peripheral programs by providing tobacco cessation, opioid misuse prevention, and motivational interviewing training at rehabilitation and medical facilities.

• Attended trainings, conferences, state-wide meetings, and committees to stay abreast new developments and initiatives.

• Collaborated with local partners, organizers, and stakeholders to design and implement health education and prevention projects and events.

• Single-handedly authored the standard operating procedures manual.

• Documented all activities, submitting detailed reports for program efficacy and analysis.

Hours worked: 20 hours per week

• Facilitated in-person and online tobacco cessation classes for the general public under the guidelines of Tobacco Free Florida.

• Taught weekly tobacco courses in a recovery center to assist in cessation and prevent substance use.

• Provided current and accurate information, resources, and skills to coach participants to quit tobacco use.

• Researched and continuously trained under CDC Best Practices guidelines tobacco cessation and addiction prevention.

• Instructed tobacco prevention training sessions for medical personnel.

• Partnered with community health organizers to provide health education and preventative services to the general public.

Hours worked: 20 hours per week

• Organized program services for sexual health, sexual assault prevention, alcohol abuse prevention and education, and stress management.

• Coordinated events to promote health education on campus.

• Planned and implemented outreach services while partnering with health advocacy groups to best serve the UWF community.

• Prepared social media content to promote health initiatives.

• Led peer health educator programs related to alcohol misuse prevention, sexual assault prevention, stress prevention, sexual health and STI prevention, and violence prevention.