Education & Outreach

Our professional staff members provide one on one, confidential consultations for students interested in learning more about health and wellness topics.

Areas of focus that we provide consultation on include, but are not limited to:

• Sexuality, gender, and identity exploration
• Sexual health and wellness
• Contraceptive education
• Safer sex and STI risk reduction
• Healthy relationships
• Communication and boundary setting
• Navigating conflict
• Self and community care
• Alcohol and substance use 
• Stress and anxiety
• Mindfulness
• Sleep hygiene
• Health behavior change
• Campus resource exploration
• And more!

We believe that open and honest dialogue and education regarding these topics is incredibly important for personal development. We strive to create an informative and supportive environment for students to explore wellness in their own way and seek.

With that in mind, it is important to remember that our staff consist of trained wellness educators. We are not medical or mental health providers. Where appropriate, we can facilitate referrals to Health Services and Counseling Services.

Bystander Intervention is a powerful tool that can help us create safer and more caring and supportive communities by empowering individuals to intervene when they witness problematic behavior. Utilizing the Step UP model developed by the University of Arizona, this training provides participants with strategies and concrete intervention skills, discusses barriers to intervention, and explores prosocial behavior.

Utilizing the community training model developed at Columbia Health, we provide Narcan trainings to help teach critical life saving skills for responding to an opioid overdose. This training covers a brief overview of opioids, their effects on the body, xylazine or "tranq" and its relationship to opioids, potential overdose signs, and how to administer Narcan. We also share campus and community resources for support. Participants receive a free Narcan kit at the conclusion of this program.

This is a training designed for student leaders, first years, and anyone looking for an introductory workshop that explores the basics of substance use, harm reduction, and supportive resources. In this workshop, we discuss how we form ideas about and relationships to substances, explore the risks and effects of certain substances, and offer concrete campus, local, and digital resources for harm reduction, prevention, and recovery. We also provide a brief overview of applicable Bryn Mawr, Bi-Co, state, and national policies relating to alcohol and substance use.  

Self-care is a crucial pillar of  health promotion and wellness. When we begin to tap into our senses and observe what our body needs -- rest, sleep, exercise, food, spirituality, friendship, and community -- we can best support our long-term health and well-being. In this workshop, we begin by looking at the origins of self-care throughout history. Then, we offer a few participatory activities that ask students and staff to consider the ways in which they can support their own self-care. We ask participants to think beyond the “instagramification” of self-care (think facemasks and bubble baths) and to consider how to build sustainable wellness rituals into their lives.