Wellness Promotion Trainings
Our Wellness Educators are currently offering a variety of trainings.
Certified Peer Educator (CPE) is a program designed to prepare students for peer education roles on college campuses. This training is offered as an effort to promote student health, wellness, and safety by empowering students to support their fellow peers.
Question. Persuade. Refer. (QPR) is a suicide prevention training that teaches individuals how to recognize the warnings signs of suicide and use 3 steps to help someone who is at risk.
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is a certification that provides individuals with the skills to identify, understand, and respond to mental health and substance-use challenges. Participants learn how to listen non-judgmentally, assess risk of harm, provide reassurance and support, and connect the individual to appropriate professional help and resources.
Narcan will equip you with the knowledge and tools to assist in overdose response with naloxone, understand opioids and their effects, notice the signs and symptoms of an overdose, and recognize common myths regarding drug overdose and fentanyl.
Red Watch Band educates students on alcohol awareness and bystander intervention, providing the knowledge, awareness, and skills to prevent toxic drinking deaths. The program empowers students to recognize and respond to risky situations, promoting a culture of kindness, responsibility, compassion, and respect while fostering safety and support.
If you are interested in any of these trainings, please contact the Wellness Educators at unlvwellnesszone@unlv.edu.
Wellness Promotion Workshops & Presentations
Our Wellness Educators and Certified Peer Educators can provide academic classes, registered student organizations, or other student groups effective and interactive workshops on a variety of health and wellness material. All of our workshops are evidence-based and designed to provide students with practical skills that empower them to make informed choices about their personal health behaviors.
We ask all participants to complete a post-workshop survey to help our staff assess learning outcomes and continually improve.
Workshop Topics
You can now request a personalized presentation on one or multiple topics from the Wellness Wheel to help enhance your well-being across different areas of life. The Wellness Wheel is a holistic model designed to address eight interconnected dimensions that promote balance and overall personal well-being. These dimensions include:
- Occupational Wellness: Focusing on career development, certifications, work ethic, education, training, and aligning your professional pursuits with your personal interests and abilities.
- Spiritual Wellness: Emphasizing values, ethics, traditions, intuition, and the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment and personal meaning.
- Intellectual Wellness: Enhancing your time management, study techniques, memory, imagination, and goal-setting skills to support lifelong learning and mental growth.
- Physical Wellness: Prioritizing your fitness, nutrition, recreation, sleep, relaxation, and energy levels, alongside preventive health practices.
- Emotional Wellness: Developing strategies for stress management, increasing emotional resilience, fostering joy, and understanding your personality and self-efficacy.
- Environmental Wellness: Raising awareness of community service, world and political issues, and sustainable practices such as recycling, food choices, and natural resource management.
- Social Wellness: Cultivating healthy relationships, building strong connections with family and friends, and participating in cultural and social groups.
- Financial Wellness: Managing finances through budgeting, financial literacy, savings, and ensuring food and housing security for a stable future
Each dimension of the Wellness Wheel contributes to a balanced and fulfilling life. By exploring and improving these areas, you can better manage the challenges of academic, social, and personal life, while also enhancing your overall well-being. Whether you're seeking to improve stress management, build healthier habits, or develop new skills, requesting a presentation on these topics can provide valuable insights and strategies to support your success in college and beyond.
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