ABSTRACT
UA Life & Work Connections (LWC) is the University of Arizona's designated work-life unit for faculty and staff. These developmental concepts of social ecology of health, including whole-person needs, life-cycle issues, and spillover, provide context for understanding the development and functioning of UA Life & Work Connections. Established in 1885 as the first university in the Arizona Territory and the state's only land-grant institution, the University of Arizona in Tucson embraces its threefold mission of excellence in teaching, research, and public service. In 1998, the name was changed to LWC to reflect its broad range of 'whole-person' services. The focus here is to address faculty and staff stress as it relates to work-life issues through coping and resiliency-building skills as well as problem-solving strategies. The value of a model is its transferability, and so other organizations can easily incorporate concepts such as home and work leverage points, systemic linkages, life cycle, and spillover into their conceptualization of the organizational needs.
