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Guide to Student Wellness Groups
Peer Education
Harvard University Health Services (HUHS) offers a broad range of health care services, including health promotion programming and mental health counseling. Peer educators are an integral part of supporting the overall wellbeing of students.
Active Minds
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Active Minds is the nation’s premier nonprofit organization supporting mental health awareness and education for young adults. Active Minds collaborates with CAMHS, Wellness Tutors, and student groups to promote a supportive student community at Harvard. Active Minds members facilitate dialogue about mental health and self-care, provide information about resources to seek help, and work towards de-stigmatizing mental illness on campus and nationwide.
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The Wellness Educators (WE), under the umbrella of Health Promotion at HUHS, work to cultivate an empowered Harvard College student body that embraces all aspects of wellbeing. WEs use a multi-dimensional approach to engage students through education and skill-building and collaborate with campus partners to support community wellbeing.
In their roles as Wellness Educators, students:
- Connect their peers to health resources
- Promote wellbeing information & practices
- Educate about holistic wellbeing
Counseling Workshops and Groups
In addition to providing mental health counseling, Harvard offers wellness-based student groups, such as stress management, affinity support groups, and coping skills workshops.
Other
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Counseling and Mental Health Services (CAMHS) offers a wonderful array of virtual group programs for students to promote mental wellbeing this semester. Participation in one of our many online groups or workshops provides a confidential, safe and supportive space to discuss your concerns and learn coping skills with others who may have similar challenges. Any of these programs can help you change and reach personal goals, foster stress management skills, and alleviate feelings of alienation and loneliness. Group topics and drop-in times are listed on CAMHS calendar each semester.
Mental Health Peer Counseling
There are a variety of mental health peer counseling groups on campus, addressing general mental health concerns and more specific issues. These groups are peer-led and confidential.
Mental Health Peer Counseling
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Contact is peer counseling that strives to create a supportive space for Harvard undergraduates to talk about feelings and experiences around mental health and Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual (BGLTQIA+) identities. Drop-in times are listed on CAMHS calendar each semester.
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Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) provides a confidential, non-judgmental, non-directive space for undergraduate students to receive support about any concern. ECHO counselors have specialized training to address concerns about exercising, body image, food, eating, and eating disorders. Drop-in times are listed on CAMHS calendar each semester.
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Indigo Peer Counseling strives to foster a supportive and empathetic campus environment for undergraduate students grappling with and addressing concerns that lie at the intersection of identity and mental health, including how race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, first-generation identity, citizenship status, ability, gender, sexuality, and other identities, singularly and collectively, inform individual experiences. Drop-in times are listed on CAMHS calendar each semester.
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RESPONSE is a group of undergraduates professionally trained to provide peer counseling on issues of rape, abuse, intimate violence, psychological and physical harassment, and relationships. Drop-in times are listed on CAMHS calendar each semester.
Contact: harvardresponse@gmail.com
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Room 13 is now Zoom 13! Trained peer counselors offer guidance surrounding gender, identity, SES, alcohol and drugs, grief, relationships, eating, health, school, and anything else. Drop-in times are listed on CAMHS calendar each semester.