The Daily Bruin

Welcome to Wellness Wednesdays! We in HR are introducing a series of health and wellness tips that we hope will help you and your family be well. Today’s topic is on the specific ways we can reduce our healthcare expenses.

Please click the links if you are interested:

• 25 ways to reduce your healthcare costs
• Five ways to cut your healthcare costs
• How to handle a surprise medical bill

We are here for you. If you need any help with your benefits, please do not hesitate to contact Aga at aluptak@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2181.

Stay well

Now more than ever, our community is in need of resources, especially food. Students returning to campus who are eligible to be on a lower meal plan will need access to the Bruin Community Pantry food bank to supplement their nutritional needs.

Since May, more than 600 students, alumni and their families who live locally have utilized the food bank. We anticipate that this number will increase once school starts. Please consider helping in one of two ways:

1. Donate monthly through payroll deduction through the advancement office.
2. Shop for and deliver the below items to the food bank in Roberts Center during its hours of operation (currently Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 4 to 5:30 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon).

Or, contact Jere Witherspoon (jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu) to meet you at the food bank. Here is a list of the items that are needed:

• Pasta sauce
• Tuna
• Cereal
• Gluten-free items
• Top ramen
• Garbanzo beans
• Black beans
• Soups
• Canned meat
• Granola bars
• Microwave popcorn
• Meals in a can
• Crackers

Thank you for helping to stock up the food bank!

Interested in learning more about working as a behavioral health clinician? Join us for a special continuing education event focused on developing new skills for behavioral health learners using the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model.

The course “Professional Solutions: Behavioral Health Clinician Essentials” will be held virtually the week of Aug. 10-14, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There is no cost to participate for George Fox faculty or students. The event is hosted by the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute.

Research shows that clinics that implement the BCBH model are better equipped to deliver biopsychosocial-cultural care to the people they serve. The PCBH model is an evolution of psychotherapy that matches the fast pace of primary care by adding a behavioral health clinician (BHC) team member who works in a focused and accessible way.

BHCs in primary care are licensed psychologists, clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists. This event will feature an interprofessional team that includes experts in the PCBH model, primary care clinicians, nurses and others who are invested in the success of BHCs in primary care.

To learn more, contact Tammy O’Doherty (todohert@georgefox.edu).

A group of George Fox alumni and current student makers invite the campus community to check out Living Room Market, Newberg’s alleyway soirèe at 111 S. College St.

Join us every first Friday between 4 and 9 p.m. through late summer and early fall (Aug. 7, Sept. 4 and Oct. 2). Our marketplace offers an experience that gathers locals with small businesses and individuals from beyond our town to celebrate creative community, nature-based products and handcrafted goods.

Each event includes an artisan maker’s market, food carts, live music and more! Interested in being one of our rad makers? Visit this link for more details.

In his latest blog piece, President Robin Baker discusses the ongoing need to keep conversation, relationships and listening at the fore as we strive to be a more diverse and inclusive community.

To bring his points home, Robin shares the story of Fabian Jimenez, a former student who overcame challenging socio-economic conditions to attend George Fox and earn a degree. You can read the piece here.

Bon Appetit is excited to welcome you to back to campus this fall! As you’d expect, we’re implementing some serious sanitation and service measures to ensure you can dine with us as safely and comfortably as possible.

While COVID-19 safety is a key priority, it isn’t our only one. We still believe that food has an important role to play in individual wellness and in building culture and community at George Fox. Our chefs will still be cooking from scratch, using fresh local and seasonal ingredients that meet our sustainability standards.

More information about dining can be found on this webpage. As more information unfolds, updates will be communicated with students and posted on this site.

For more information, please General Manager Jason Rosvall at jason.rosvall@cafebonappetit.com or 503-554-3201.

All employee headshot photo shoots are on hold until September. If you are a new employee, or are in need of a new or updated headshot, please wait until further notice before contacting the university photographer or the marketing communications department.

Keep an eye out in the Daily Bruin this fall for an update on when photo shoots will resume.

A group of George Fox alumni and current student makers invite the campus community to check out Living Room Market, Newberg’s alleyway soirèe at 111 S. College St.

Join us every first Friday between 4 and 9 p.m. through late summer and early fall (Aug. 7, Sept. 4 and Oct. 2). Our marketplace offers an experience that gathers locals with small businesses and individuals from beyond our town to celebrate creative community, nature-based products and handcrafted goods.

Each event includes an artisan maker’s market, food carts, live music and more! Interested in being one of our rad makers? Visit this link for more details.

George Fox faculty and students are invited to take part in a virtual interprofessional continuing medical education event addressing suicide prevention on Saturday, Aug. 15. It will take place over Zoom from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The event, hosted by the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute, is free to students and staff. It will feature experts from a variety of healthcare professions to discuss how interprofessional teams in school-based health centers and primary care clinics can work closely together to prevent adolescent suicide in our communities.

After rates of adolescent suicide in the U.S. stabilized from 2000 to 2007, suicide rates for ages 10 to 24 increased from 2007 (6.8 per 100,000 persons) to 2017 (10.6). While suicides increased across this age group, suicide rates most sharply increased for ages 10 to 14, nearly tripling from 2007 (0.9) to 2017 (2.5).

These increasing rates of adolescent suicide highlight the importance of prevention and intervention in schools, primary care and other community-based settings.

To learn more, contact Tammy O’Doherty (todohert@georgefox.edu).

Several parking spaces have been marked off in the Hoover parking lot. Please avoid parking in these spaces while some arborist work is done on the tree in the parking lot landscaping. The work will take several days.

Thank you!

Interested in learning more about working as a behavioral health clinician? Join us for a special continuing education event focused on developing new skills for behavioral health learners using the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model.

The course “Professional Solutions: Behavioral Health Clinician Essentials” will be held virtually the week of Aug. 10-14, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. There is no cost to participate for George Fox faculty or students. The event is hosted by the Interprofessional Primary Care Institute.

Research shows that clinics that implement the BCBH model are better equipped to deliver biopsychosocial-cultural care to the people they serve. The PCBH model is an evolution of psychotherapy that matches the fast pace of primary care by adding a behavioral health clinician (BHC) team member who works in a focused and accessible way.

BHCs in primary care are licensed psychologists, clinical social workers, professional counselors, and marriage and family therapists. This event will feature an interprofessional team that includes experts in the PCBH model, primary care clinicians, nurses and others who are invested in the success of BHCs in primary care.

To learn more, contact Tammy O’Doherty (todohert@georgefox.edu).

Several parking spaces have been marked off in the Stevens Center parking lot. Please avoid parking in these spaces while some arborist work is done on the tree in the parking lot landscaping. The work will take several days.

Thank you!

Thank you to staff and faculty alike for bearing with the changes in purchasing at this unique time in our university. To provide clarity across campus, here is a reminder concerning which purchasing tool to use when.

Requisitions: Please fill out a purchase requisition to purchase products or services from a vendor/supplier. Contact purchasing (purchasing@georgefox.edu) with any questions and refer to the Purchasing Policy.

Individuals (not tied to an entity such as a business): Complete a check request in employment records. This is done through HR through George Fox timekeeping. Please refer to the George Fox timekeeping system guide for instruction on how to proceed. Contact HR with questions (hr@georgefox.edu).

Reimbursements:

• Standard full-time staff reimbursements are processed through Concur. Contact Kathi Becker (kbecker@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.
• Part-time hourly staff are to use the reimbursement form found on the finance page under forms. Contact accounts payable (accountspayable@georgefox.edu) if you have questions about finance forms.

Visa Charges and Transactions: All Visa purchases need to be approved through the requisition process in order to receive authorization/approval to purchase. Once a PO is issued, a requester can proceed using their Visa (please keep in mind that you still have to process receipts through Concur for all Visa transactions).

Contact purchasing (purchasing@georgefox.edu) with questions about Visa PO approvals using the requisition process. Contact Kathi Becker (kbecker@georgefox.edu) if you have questions concerning Visa cards and Concur.

For all other questions specifically tied to requisitions and purchase orders, contact purchasing. If you require a tutorial on how to enter a requisition, please contact Sonia Rademacher (srademacher@georgefox.edu) in purchasing.

We would like to request that there be no moving of furniture in classrooms between now and when classes start in the fall.

Due to Oregon Health Authority guidelines, we are having to rearrange and remove furniture in all of our instructional spaces and need for the rearranged furniture to remain in specific locations to ensure proper distancing. 

Thank you.

The student life office is excited to announce its move to the Hadlock Student Center, 1400 E. Sherman St. 

Entrance to the offices will be through the side door closest to the parking lot of Sherman Street.

George Fox faculty and students are invited to take part in a virtual interprofessional continuing medical education event addressing suicide prevention on Saturday, Aug. 15. It will take place over Zoom from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The event is free to students and staff. It will feature experts from a variety of healthcare professions to discuss how interprofessional teams in school-based health centers and primary care clinics can work closely together to prevent adolescent suicide in our communities.

After rates of adolescent suicide in the U.S. stabilized from 2000 to 2007, suicide rates for ages 10 to 24 increased from 2007 (6.8 per 100,000 persons) to 2017 (10.6). While suicides increased across this age group, suicide rates most sharply increased for ages 10 to 14, nearly tripling from 2007 (0.9) to 2017 (2.5).

These increasing rates of adolescent suicide highlight the importance of prevention and intervention in schools, primary care and other community-based settings.

To learn more, contact Tammy O’Doherty (todohert@georgefox.edu).

Bon Appetit is excited to welcome you to back to campus this fall! As you’d expect, we’re implementing some serious sanitation and service measures to ensure you can dine with us as safely and comfortably as possible.

While COVID-19 safety is a key priority, it isn’t our only one. We still believe that food has an important role to play in individual wellness and in building culture and community at George Fox. Our chefs will still be cooking from scratch, using fresh local and seasonal ingredients that meet our sustainability standards. (We are pleased to mention that, in March, the Humane Society of the United States ranked us the No. 1 food service company, the only one with an A+ grade!)

More information about dining can be found on this webpage. As more information unfolds, updates will be communicated with students and posted on this site.

For more information, please General Manager Jason Rosvall at jason.rosvall@cafebonappetit.com or 503-554-3201.

All employee headshot photo shoots are on hold until September. If you are a new employee, or are in need of a new or updated headshot, please wait until further notice before contacting the university photographer or the marketing communications department.

Keep an eye out in the Daily Bruin this fall for an update on when photo shoots will resume.

The city of Newberg will be doing some water meter testing on campus this week. During each appointed time, the water will be shut off at that particular meter for about 30 minutes.

Each meter tested has a scheduled time, and if the meter has a bypass valve, you may not notice an interruption in service.

Monday, July 20, testing:

• Morse Fields at 11:15 a.m. (no bypass valve)
• Roberts Center at noon (has a bypass valve, so you may not notice interruption)

Tuesday, July 21, testing:

• Hobson, Macy, Sutton at 7:30 a.m. (no bypass valve)
• George Fox campus buildings near Wood-Mar at 8:30 a.m. (has a bypass valve, so you may not notice interruption)
• Wheeler at 4:30 p.m. (no bypass valve)

Wednesday, July 22, testing:

• Ross at 11:30 a.m. (no bypass valve)

Thank you for your patience!

Face shields are available for George Fox employees. They are available in the student life office on the third floor of the Stevens Center. The office is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please drop by if you want to pick up a face shield.

For more information, please contact Jere Witherspoon at  jwitherspoon@georgefox.edu.