Student Affairs departments are open for full or partial in-person services this fall. Please check the Student Affairs homepage for hours, service offerings, and contact methods. For the latest campus reopening plans, safety guidelines, and requirements, visit Campus Return.
We are doing online and in-person workshops! Invite us to give a workshop or presentation to your group. Choose from the programs below, and you can check out our Peer Groups page for more options:
Mental Health: Active Minds
Alcohol and other drugs, safe partying, sexual health, and nutrition & fitness: Golden ARCHES
Education and prevention of COVID-19 and Flu among other public health topics: Public Health Peers
You can also request a specific program or suggest a topic or idea. All our programs can be updated to include relevant information on the current pandemic and anti-racism. Please give us at least two weeks' notice to prepare. Once you have selected a program, you can submit your request at thewell@ucr.edu. The department will follow up with a form to fill out and review the information before finalizing. All workshop requests can provide health promotion items.
Program Categories:
General Health & Wellness
Dimensions of Wellness
Students have a range roles and responsibilities that can both contribute to and detract from overall wellness. In this 60 minute program, explore wellness from a holistic perspective while learning how UCR’s resources aim to integrate healthy practices into the student experience.
Time Management
Do you feel like there isn’t enough time in the day/week/month to get things done? In this 60 minute program presented by The WELL and Active Minds, learn skills to prioritize your time and better organize your school, work and personal life to make them work for you.
Sound Asleep
In this 60 minute Active Minds program learn how the sleep we get affects all aspects of living—attention span, mental health, memory and physical health. Gain skills to build a healthy relationship with sleep so that your body and mind get all the rest and integration they need to serve you every day.
Fitness and Nutrition
Learn the basics on how to eat and move well in this 45 minute workshop.
Let's Talk. Period.
Periods are to be talked about. This 45 minute workshop gives an opportunity for students of any gender to learn and talk about period stigma, the menstrual cycle, period products, symptoms, myths and period poverty
Mental Health
Mental Health Awareness
What is mental health? What is mental illness? In this interactive one hour program presented by The WELL and Active Minds, learn about mental wellness from a holistic perspective, the factors that affect our mental health, and coping skills to maintain and improve it.
Treat Yo Self
In this 60 minute interactive program led by Active Minds peers learn how to manage stress on a tight schedule with a tight budget.
Stress Management
In this 60 minute workshop led by The WELL, learn how to identify signs of stress in yourself and practice regular effective self-care strategies. Experiential exercises included!
Food and Mental Health
Learn how the food you put into your body affects you holistically in this 60 minute Active Minds program.
Body Positivity
Everybody has a different body! Let’s celebrate this together in this 60 minute Active Minds program on creating a positive body image for yourself and your peers.
Erasing the Stigma
The purpose of this presentation is to understand the discrimination faced by people with mental health issues/disorders and to inspire people to work together to break down the stigma that surrounds mental illness.
Sexual Health
Sex on the Beach
Sex on the Beach is an interactive and fun activity using a beach ball to show the prevalence of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs). STI testing and prevention, stigma, sexual consent and substance use are discussed. The activity and discussion takes about 30 minutes and is best with a group of 15-40 people. COVID-19 Update: This activity can be modified to an online version.
Let's Talk About Sex
Although not everyone in college is having sex, it's good to be prepared with enough information to help make safer decisions should you choose to engage in sex or sexual activities. This is a fun, interactive workshop about sexual health, including information on reproductive justice, contraceptives/birth control, sexually transmitted infection, myths, communication, and consent. This is a 60 minute in-person or online workshop. COVID-19 Update: We have added new safety tips relating to the spread of coronavirus.
Let's Talk About Sex: Birth Control Edition
This is a 30-minute alternative to our full 60 minute workshop, with a focus specifically on contraceptives/birth control. Although not everyone in college is having sex, it's good to be prepared with enough information to help make safer decisions should you choose to engage in sex or sexual activities. This is a fun, interactive workshop about sexual health, including information on reproductive justice, contraceptives/birth control, consent and we new safety tips relating to the spread of coronavirus!
Let's Talk About Sex: STI Edition
This is a 30-minute alternative to our full 60 minute workshop, with a focus specifically on preventing sexually transmitted infections. Although not everyone in college is having sex, it's good to be prepared with enough information to help make safer decisions should you choose to engage in sex or sexual activities. This is a fun, interactive workshop about sexual health, including information on reproductive justice, STIs, consent and new safety tips relating to the spread of coronavirus!
Condom Bingo
Test your knowledge of anatomy, STIs, campus resources, and more in this fun hands-on game. Win prizes! COVID-19 Update: This activity can be modified to an online version.
Alcohol & Other Drugs
BEARS: Building Education on Alcohol Recovery and Substances (formally Highlanders Party Smart)
Whether you choose to drink or not, alcohol may play a role in your college life. We provide some tips, tricks, and strategies for staying on the good side of alcohol and we talk about the reality of alcohol use at UCR. Maybe you don’t drink...No problem! We also discuss reasons students choose not to drink, tools needed to educate your peers or to help out a friend who may have had too much to drink and ways to support someone who is sober or in recovery. This is a 60 minute online or in-person workshop. COVID-19 Update: We have added new party safety tips relating to the spread of coronavirus.
Alcohol Bingo
Test your knowledge of alcohol in this interactive bingo game and win prizes. Best with a group of 15 or less people. Covid-19 Update: This activity can be modified to an online version
Alcohol Jeopardy
The game where knowing the right answers to questions makes you a winner! Answer questions on topics such as: effects of alcohol, BAC levels, the body and brain, impaired driving, the law, women and alcohol, alcoholism and win prizes. Covid-19 Update: This activity can be modified to an online version.