Health and Wellness Education HEALTH AND WELLNESS EDUCATION

Purple and orange banner with text that reads, "October is Healthy relationships month"

What makes a healthy relationship?

Drop by our table to use your creativity in expressing what a healthy relationship means to you, plus take some resources home. Those who participate will get a free drink at Crossroads! 

Davis Family Library Vestibule (main entrance)

Conversations on Recovery and Addiction: dinner and panel discussion

Go/RecoveryConversation/ to join members of the Health and Wellness Education Office and NSCI Professor Zu Zhai to share a meal with local community members from Peer Recovery Center of Addison County. Together we will hear from folks with lived experience to more holistically understand the meaning of peer recovery and the bio-psycho-social impacts of addiction. At this event you will: 

Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Well-being Fair

Learn more about all the ways you can support your own well-being through resource tables and fun activities. Enjoy lots of giveaways, pet therapy dogs and spend time with students, staff and community members who support our community’s well-being. Free ice cream and live music too!

McCullough Lawn

Letters to Loved Ones

Join PEAR for an evening of  letter writing. Stop by to write a letter to someone you care about - a friend, partner, mentor, family member, whoever! Expressing what you value in your relationships helps to deepen your bond and can mutually improve well-being for you and the person receiving your letter. PEAR peer health educators will provide suggested prompts, letter writing materials, snacks and stamps.

Find us in the Great Hall and Davis Library 230

McCardell Bicentennial Hall Tormondsen Great Hall

Get Glazed!

Meet some Peer Health Educators and get a glazed donut by answering a trivia question about cannabis safety and harm reduction. 

Are you looking for support related to your substance use? Schedule a confidential meeting with a Health Educator on campus: go.middlebury.edu/meetwithHWE/

Davis Family Library Vestibule (main entrance)

Learn about Peer-based Recovery Services

Stop by and meet members of Turning Point Center of Addison County (TPCAC) - Middlebury’s local peer-based recovery services center. Learn about how TPCAC supports folks who are in recovery, as well as learn about possible ways to get involved with this amazing organization to help build a community that supports recovery. 

Davis Family Library Vestibule (main entrance)