Inspired by the spirits of “Mission,” “Love,” and “Service” that is distinctive to Catholic universities, all schools and departments of FJCU are committed to promoting children’s education, family wellbeing, healthy aging, and care for life. Through special programs and long-term plans targeted at health, nutrition, family, physical education, sports, and healthy aging, FJCU contributes to the promotion of health, welfare, and related issues. Starting from the nearby Xinzhuang area, FJCU expands its influence to locations including Taishan, Wugu, Taoyuan, and the great Taipei area, where it implements long-term plans to promote elderly health, healthy diet, and healthcare knowledge.
All schools and departments of FJCU are committed to promoting children’s education, family wellbeing, healthy aging, and care for life. Through special programs and long-term plans targeted at health, nutrition, family, physical education, sports, and healthy aging, FJCU contributes to the promotion of health, welfare, and related issues. Starting from the nearby Xinzhuang area, FJCU expands its influence to locations including Taishan, Wugu, Taoyuan, and the great Taipei area, where it implements long-term plans to promote elderly health, healthy diet, and healthcare knowledge.



Special programs

“Wellness Dining” is a 3-year program that involves multiple areas of expertise within FJCU, including health, nutrition, family planning, and food science. The program not only promotes nutrition education, but also trains participating students to become future trainers through research and participation, so that they may contribute to the promotion of good nutrition and healthcare in different parts of the society.


[Nutrition care]

1. FJCU launched a “Wellness Dining” program that incorporates food education into the parental dining experience. The program introduces a science-based approach involving the use of family dining happiness scorecard, food indicators, food reheating guidelines, and parental manuals on family dining and food education, while at the same time proposing wellness family menus (including festive menus), parental cooking courses, and healthy menus for children. Not only have program materials and teaching strategies been designed at the same level of stringency as college courses, but the program also organizes workshops and takes the train-the-trainer approach to promote knowledge on school grounds and in communities. Through Wellness Dining, FJCU hopes to promote a healthy and enjoyable dining experience starting with households and looks forward to expanding influence to cater to the general public's health.


2. FJCU developed 3 healthy meal sets and held three “Healthy Meal Challenges” in 2019 plus one national school lunch competition with Douceur Network to promote nutritional balance when dining out.


3. FJCU organized 5 awareness campaigns on campus to address combined nutrition and exercise issues, such as fat loss, muscle growth, and fitness. FJCU also arranged 4 awareness campaigns in various communities to cover topics concerning elders, exercise, and diet. FJCU’s Master’s Program in Social Enterprise includes a “social participation course,” where students take part in issues concerning health, nutrition, family planning, physical education, exercise, and healthy aging in more than a dozen partnered communities locally and abroad each year.

Ong-term programs

FJCU leverages the resources of its Affiliated Hospital to promote care for elders. Students are encouraged to volunteer in keeping local elders company, starting from Xinzhuang District and expanding to locations such as Taishan, Wugu, Taoyuan, and the greater Taipei area. FJCU currently runs 2 long-term projects with different emphases: “Healthcare, Exercise, Retirement, and Mental Health” and “Nutrition, Health Knowledge, Community Disease Control, and Mental Healthcare for the Elderly”

[Elderly care]

1. FJCU School of Medicine created an Elderly Care Resources Center in 2012. It leveraged the advantage of a comprehensive university by assembling a team of combined expertise to explore elderly care issues on multiple dimensions. The resources center is intended to support FJCU’s teaching and research efforts on elderly studies, and promote healthy aging as the nation progresses towards an aging society. Below are descriptions of FJCU’s involvement in terms of elderly education, elder-friendly university, a forum on geriatric care, and university social responsibility (USR). The Taitung Health Service Summer Camp, founded in 2010, has been providing service to new subjects - Wen Chien Day Care Center in Dawu Township and Tien Chi Day Care Center in Shangwu Village since 2019. The summer camp organizes health promotion courses for aboriginal elders, and helps locals maintain optimal mental state and resources as the population ages.


2. FJCU views seniors at “Miracle Home Sisters of Providence” as subjects of service. By having elders exchange, share, interact, and co-create artworks with young students or pose for photos, FJCU helps develop confidence and lessen loneliness among elders while at the same time inspiring “creativity and activity in aging.”
   For the Miracle Home, FJCU designs its activities and services primarily to facilitate “cross-age group creativity.” Students either interact with elders to co-create works of art or identify their needs for clothing or textile goods and design and produce the final solutions.





3. Service by Department of Italian Language and Culture: Through the service, students are able to enhance their learning outcome and live the Catholic values of love and care in practice. The service is jointly organized between the Department of Italian Language and Culture and the Ministry Office of the College of Foreign Languages. Students perform services of one hour at Taishan Elders Home every Saturday. About 10-16 services are organized per semester. About a dozen students would engage elders in conversation or singing and gain inspiration for life and growth through their time spent with the elders.

Additionally, FJCU arranges community nursing courses and organizes more than 15 sessions of group health education each year to convey awareness on: washing hands and prevention of E. coli for elementary school children, community prevention of dengue fever, and exercise and health for community elders. Approximately 50 sessions were held in the last 3 years. Students of the Department of Nursing divided themselves into teams for various types of health promotion and disease prevention activities. The students designed their activities depending on the environment and the audience involved, and used fun ways such as drama performance, speech, and group games to achieve the purpose of each session. These courses have also been designed to allow students to learn through community service. The two courses on “Health Education” and “Health Promotion,” for example, require participating students to conduct health-related education at junior high schools and elementary schools in Xinzhuang District, whereas the “Mental Health” course, too, incorporates elements that enable participants to learn through service. Since 2011, FJCU has been enforcing the Health Promoting School International Accreditation program that encourages elementary, junior high, and senior high schools to engage in health promotion activities. By disclosing winning schools in Taiwan, FJCU helps promote community health as part of its social responsibilities.

[Community disease control and health promotion]

1. The Department of Nursing arranges community nursing courses and organizes more than 15 sessions of group health education each year to convey awareness on: washing hands and prevention of E. coli for elementary school children, community prevention of dengue fever, and exercise and health for community elders. Approximately 50 sessions were held in the last 3 years. Students of the Department of Nursing divided themselves into teams for various types of health promotion and disease prevention activities. The students designed their activities depending on the environment and the audience involved, and used fun ways such as drama performance, speech, and group games to achieve the purpose of each session.


2. Courses of the Department of Public Health have been designed to allow students to learn through community service. The two courses on “Health Education” and “Health Promotion,” for example, require participating students to conduct health-related education at junior high schools and elementary schools in Xinzhuang District, whereas the “Mental Health” course, too, incorporates elements that enable participants to learn through service.


3. Since 2011, the Department of Public Health has been enforcing the Health Promoting School International Accreditation program that encourages elementary, junior high, and senior high schools to engage in health promotion activities. By disclosing winning schools in Taiwan, the department helps promote community health as part of its social responsibilities.

Aside from fulfilling health and medical commitments through special and long-term programs, FJCU also devotes itself to post-disaster mental recovery as a demonstration of Catholic values. While the world succumbed to the impact of COVID-19, FJCU, with its diverse language and culture, invited international students to convey care and encouragement in their mother tongues to those in need. In 2020, FJCU organized a competition that invited people to express emotions, relieve stress, care for others, and exchange culture through music.
Since 2010, FJCU has organized trips during summer vacation each year to Dawu Township, Taitung County, where participants help locals rebuild from disaster, accompany Daniao Elementary School students and local residents through trauma, and teach proper training health knowledge.