Health and Wellness Education HEALTH AND WELLNESS EDUCATION

Hot Cocoa Bar in New Battell Lounge

Visit us at the New Battell Lounge! We’ll be celebrating the new Battell Park equipment including benches, hammocks and swings and keeping warm with a hot cocoa bar! Swing by and spend some time in community as the semester draws to a close. Brought to you by the Center for Health & Wellness, SGA and Landscape architecture students. 

To Be Announced

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Winter Term Workshop: Peer Support Skills Training (psst...)

Ever felt stumped about how to help a friend going through a hard time? Interested in working in a helping field in the future? Register for this training all about common mental health challenges and how to best support friends who are going through a hard time. Participants will leave with more confidence to express care and concern for friends, bring up worries and help friends to get help! Participants will meet for 1 hour for 4 weeks and receive a certificate to celebrate your learning. 

Health and Wellness Education Conference Room

a speech bubble with teal text inside of it that reads "psst... Health & Wellness Education"

Winter Term Workshop: Peer Support Skills Training (psst...)

Ever felt stumped about how to help a friend going through a hard time? Interested in working in a helping field in the future? Register for this training all about common mental health challenges and how to best support friends who are going through a hard time. Participants will leave with more confidence to express care and concern for friends, bring up worries and help friends to get help! Participants will meet for 1 hour for 4 weeks and receive a certificate to celebrate your learning. 

Health and Wellness Education Conference Room

a speech bubble with teal text inside of it that reads "psst... Health & Wellness Education"

Winter Term Workshop: Peer Support Skills Training (psst...)

Ever felt stumped about how to help a friend going through a hard time? Interested in working in a helping field in the future? Register for this training all about common mental health challenges and how to best support friends who are going through a hard time. Participants will leave with more confidence to express care and concern for friends, bring up worries and help friends to get help! Participants will meet for 1 hour for 4 weeks and receive a certificate to celebrate your learning. 

Health and Wellness Education Conference Room

a speech bubble with teal text inside of it that reads "psst... Health & Wellness Education"

Winter Term Workshop: Peer Support Skills Training (psst...)

Ever felt stumped about how to help a friend going through a hard time? Interested in working in a helping field in the future? Register for this training all about common mental health challenges and how to best support friends who are going through a hard time. Participants will leave with more confidence to express care and concern for friends, bring up worries and help friends to get help! Participants will meet for 1 hour for 4 weeks and receive a certificate to celebrate your learning. 

Health and Wellness Education Conference Room

Narcan Training with Turning Point Center of Addison County and PEAR

go/NarcanTraining/ to sign up! Meet staff from Turning Point Center of Addison County, Middlebury’s local peer-based recovery services center, and members of PEAR, Middlebury College’s trained peer health educator group Peers Educating for Affirming Relationships. Through this Narcan training participants will understand the context of the bio-psycho-social elements of opioids, overdose reversals, and trends in substance misuse.

Health and Wellness Education Conference Room

Decolonizing Substance Abuse, Addiction and Recovery

Join Len Pierre, who is Coast Salish from Katzie (kate-zee) First Nation and a professor, social activist, and traditional knowledge keeper, for a workshop to explore the link between colonialism, Indigenous health, and social inequities with a focus on the toxic drug crisis and its impact on Indigenous communities today. Participants will discuss strategies to address stigmas associated with substance use, examine Indigenous perspectives on harm reduction, and learn.

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

A Walk Around Campus

Join members of Health & Wellness Education, the Día de muertos celebration team, and Juntos for a leisurely walk around campus. The meet on Ross patio to enjoy bolillos, palmiers, gluten-free options & hot drinks, then take a walk around campus, where we’ll share memories and stories of loved ones. Open to all.

To Be Announced