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Affiliating yourself with your institution

If you are not the director of your program, or you do not hold a current NCHC Institutional or Professional Membership, and/or have not attended an NCHC program in the past year, you may not be in our new software system yet!

You must sign up as a "Contact" prior to registering for any NCHC program. 

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Be sure to select “Contact” when creating a username for our website. If your institution has an Institutional Membership, signing up as a "Contact" will affiliate you with your institution, and you'll be able to register for the online event, and make use of the NCHC community forums. If you sign up for any membership aside from "Contact," you will be asked to pay for that membership fee.

You'll receive an email notification, and THEN you may start registration for the intended online event.

(If your institution is not a member of NCHC, please proceed as a "Guest.")

Questions? Contact the NCHC office at (402) 472-9150 or nchc@unl.edu.

With the cancellation of projects for 2020 and 2021, the NCHC Partners in the Parks Committee wants to ensure that we create alternatives to projects to continue to foster these meaningful collaborations with NPS to benefit students from NCHC member institutions. From undergraduate student to institutional administration, all with an interest in adventure are welcome to join for these monthly meetings.

Drawing on the research cited in the National Park Service’s Healthy Parks, Healthy People initiative, presenters will share the physical and mental health benefits of interacting with nature and getting outdoors.

Next, engaging participants in a virtual outdoor experience, presenters will model an outdoor exercise designed to encourage mindfulness and will promote outdoor experiences as a method of self-care for oneself and for students.

Finally, presenters will share practical techniques for planning and implementing visits to national parks, visits that will not only engage the mind but renew and restore the heart, spirit and body as well.

Facilitators

Stephanie Santarosa | Westminster College

Stephanie Santarosa serves as the Assistant Director of Honors at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah where she helps guide the student-centered, co-curricular programming in the Honors College such as the peer mentor program, first-year programming, and advising. Stephanie holds a Ph.D. in Education with a focus on higher education, earned two M.A. degrees (in College Student Personnel and Guidance & Counseling), and has gained experience at seven different colleges and universities in the areas of student development, advising, residence life, and admissions. She has taught a wide range of courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels in leadership, student development, first-year experience, and career planning. She is a licensed therapeutic foster parent and is committed to providing a safe and loving home for refugee youth on their arrival in the United States. Steph got involved with Partners in the Parks in 2018, attending the Director’s Retreat in Smoky Mountain National Park in 2019. She is on a quest to visit as many of our beautiful national parks as possible in the coming years with her husband, two daughters, and anyone else who wants to come along!

Angela Mick | Hillsborough Community College

Angela Mick has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Baldwin-Wallace College and a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling from State University of New York at Albany. She is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor. She works at Hillsborough Community College(HCC) as an Associate Faculty Counselor and has worked closely with the Honors Institute at HCC since she started in 2006. Prior to coming to the field of academia, Angela worked primarily in the field of mental health, drug and alcohol, and eating disorders counseling. She has taught Leadership and Global Leadership in the Dr. Lydia R. Daniel Honors Program at HCC. In 2013 and 2015 Angela was part of the HCC Honors team under the leadership of Kathleen King that hosted the National Collegiate Honors Council Partners in the Parks Project in the Everglades.

Belinda Dapreis | Georgia State University

Belinda Dapreis is the proud mother of three sons and lives in the Atlanta metro area. She is a graduate of Georgia State University and New York Institute of Technology. Belinda has spent over 20 years in education and advocacy as an involved parent, educator, and volunteer. She works tirelessly to bring awareness to underserved communities through organizations like the YMCA, PTA, NCHC and Outdoor Afro. Through the National Collegiate Honors College, she promotes the use of national parks as a positive determinate for healthy lifestyles. As an Outdoor Afro leader for Atlanta, she provides outdoor experiences to African Americans that expand exposure and provide safety to the community. Belinda has recently returned to higher education @GSU and is in the process of founding a campus wide organization to support student parents called Parenting Panthers. The organization will bring awareness and value to the needs of student-parents and create opportunities for funneling resources to assist student-parents with their higher education goals. Belinda works every day to leave the world in a better place than she found it.