Health and Wellness Education

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. 

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.

go/decolonizingsub/ to sign up for a J-term workshop with Len Pierre, who is Coast Salish from Katzie (kate-zee) First Nation and a professor, social activist, and traditional knowledge sharer. Len’s workshop will explore the link between colonialism and Indigenous health and social inequities with a focus on the toxic drug crisis and its impact on Indigenous communities today.

Stop by for some pets and tail wags from Vermont Therapy Dogs! 

Stop by for some pets and tail wags from Vermont Therapy Dogs! 

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.

Want to skip the small talk and get to know others on a deeper level? Join PEAR (Peers Educating for Affirming Relationships) for a fun, slow-friending event where you’ll be sorted into groups with new people and invited to answer questions meant to invite lasting connection. Co-sponsored by BSU, Alianza and RAISINS. Free food and build your own goodie bags for all who attend! 

Find us in Axinn 219, 220, 229, & 232

This interactive training builds student skills to be well-equipped to proactively and reactively prevent interpersonal violence and to inspire continued engagement with the Green Dot strategy clubs, student groups, and across campus. This knowledge is vitally important to sustaining a culture that impedes interpersonal violence on campus. Sign up at go/greendotBT and receive exclusive Green Dot swag for attending.

This interactive training builds student skills to be well-equipped to proactively and reactively prevent interpersonal violence and to inspire continued engagement with the Green Dot strategy clubs, student groups, and across campus. This knowledge is vitally important to sustaining a culture that impedes interpersonal violence on campus. Sign up at go/greendotBT and receive exclusive Green Dot swag for attending.

This interactive training builds student skills to be well-equipped to proactively and reactively prevent interpersonal violence and to inspire continued engagement with the Green Dot strategy clubs, student groups, and across campus. This knowledge is vitally important to sustaining a culture that impedes interpersonal violence on campus. Sign up at go/greendotBT and receive exclusive Green Dot swag for attending.