Health Education and Promotion Opportunites for Students
The Wolrd Health Organization defines health promotion as the process of enabling people to increase control over and to improve their health. It moves beyond a focus on individual behavior towards a wide range of social and environmental interventions. At colleges and universities, health promotion serves the core mission of higher education by supporting students and creating healthy learning environments.
The Division of Student Health, Wellness and Prevention offers a wide variety of opportunties for students to learn about bystander intervention, health behaviors and opportunties to get involved in educating their peers about these topics.
Bystander Intervention Trainings
Green Dot Training - Green Dot is a strategy for preventing forms of power-based personal violence, such as rape and sexual assault, relationship violence, harassment, and stalking. Participants learn how to recognize risky or potentially violent situations and practice skills and strategies for intervening to prevent or address what's happening.
Red Watch Band - The Red Watch Band bystander intervention training is a 1.5hour course that provides students with the knowledge, awareness, and skills to prevent toxic drinking deaths.
QPR Gatekeeper Training - QPR stands for Question, Persuade and Refer-- the 3 simple steps anyone can learn to help prevent a suicide. People trained in QPR learn about the causes of suicidal behavior, how to recognize the warning signs that someone needs help, and how to connect people with appropriate mental health care.
Health & Wellness Peer Education internships
CHILL - The Chill Peer Education Internship is an experiential learning opportunity supporting student mental health. Chill Interns receive training, assessment and mentorship opportunities designed to engage peers in the conversation about mental health. Chill is a credit bearing internship opportunity.
CHOICE - Interns support healthy choices in the college environment through outreach efforts and engagement. They seek to heighten awareness on issues frequently impacting their peers. CHOICE is a credit baring internship.
http://studentaffairs.stonybrook.edu/cpo/peer-education/green_dot_ambass_NEW.html - The Green Team is a group of peer educators who promote violence prevention and community engagement by assisting in trainings, events, and outreach activities, and informing others about ways they can be an active bystander.
Red Watch Band CARE Team - The RWB CARE Team is a Peer Education group comprised of student leaders who conduct outreach with their peers in multiple settings in an effort to increase participation in the RWB training program and enhance the efforts of other alcohol and other drug prevention offerings. RWB CARE Team offers select credit baring intership opportunites.
Swallow This! - Students dramatically portray the real-life alcohol and other drug related experiences of SBU students as a way of educating on the consequences of substance misuse, abuse and dependence. This is a 3-credit/semester class (THR 351 Fall + THR 352 Spring).
Women's and Gender Studies Internship - This internship focuses on gender issues that impact student mental and physical health. This is a credit baring internship.
Health & Wellness Student Clubs and Organizations
Active Minds - Active Minds is a national organization that seeks to change the perception of mental illness on college campuses. Student members work to destigmatize mental illness and connect students who are struggling with appropriate treatment.
Green Dot Ambassadors - The Green Dot Ambassadors are a recognized club on campus that was formed to promote social responsibility and bystander engagement by supporting the Green Dot training program and contributing to a campus culture that does not tolerate violence in any form.
