Health and Wellness Education

Gather with friends to enjoy snacks, free delicious mocktails, and music at our Zero Proof Bar to close out our events for Recovery Month. Remember: recovery is for all, and community connection is an antidote to addiction! 

Fresh Check Day is an uplifting mental health promotion and suicide prevention event for that includes interactive expo booths, conversations with students and staff who care about mental health and suicide prevention, support of multiple campus departments and groups, free food, entertainment, and exciting prizes and giveaways.

Join the Prism Center and Health and Wellness Education for a comprehensive sex ed workshop! Learn about queer sex, consent, and dating/hook up culture! Giveaways and a chance to win prizes!

Stop by to make a pin to support body acceptance, encouraging yourself and others to have a more peaceful relationship with their body. Health Educators have suggested affirmations you can include, or create your own! 

Come create art on T-shirts to be displayed as part of the Clothesline Project, an awareness raising art installation focused on sharing experiences of people who affected power based personal violence. T-shirts will be added to Middlebury’s collection and displayed as part of an art installation in Johnson later in April. 

Brought to you by Health & Wellness Education, Global Health, Atria Collective, Palana and MiddSafe

In collaboration with Atria Collective, Middlebury College is hosting the 2025 local installation of the Clothesline Project.  Following t-shirt painting events, the clothes and their anti-violence messages will be on display in the Johnson building from April 22-28.  On Thursday evening, April 24, please join us in celebrating the work at a 6:00 pm reception followed by a 7:00 pm panel discussion with Atria Collective staff and MiddSafe student advocates.  April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Stop by to pick up a snack and talk with current Mental Health Peer Educators about applying to be a group member for the 2025-2026 academic year.

Come spin the bottle and take a (basketball) shot for a chance to learn about alcohol harm reduction tips and win a can of Athletic Brewing and other prizes: Darn Tough socks, mini-mini fridge, zero-proof drink gift basket, and more!

Help create a culture that supports recovery! Come meet SGA’s Health and Wellness committee and learn how to safely dispose of unneeded and unused medication so it doesn’t get into our waterways or in the hands of someone experiencing addiction or challenges with their mental health. Free supplies and raffle prizes! Learn more about safer medication disposal and harm reduction at go/medication-disposal. 

Join Health Educators for a complete Green Dot Bystander Training. This training will run 2pm-8pm on Friday, January 24th 2025, and a Taste of India dinner will be provided. Located in Ross seminar room B11 on the ground floor of Ross.