Outreach and Presentations | Students
Health & Well-Being Programs
Many Student Life departments and campus partners offer programming that students can request to support holistic well-being. Topics include stress relief, relationship wellness, sexual health, supporting survivors, overdose prevention and response, and more.
Students can request the following types of programs:
Trainings
This presentation is excellent for student leaders and peer supporters. Students will learn and practice active listening skills. Students will also review how to effectively respond and refer when a student needs additional, professional support.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length: 1.5 hours
Join an honest conversation about suicide prevention. Participants will learn to notice the signs that someone may be having thoughts of suicide, tips for having meaningful conversations and how to connect someone to available resources.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length of Presentation: 1 hour
Mental Health First Aid training is designed to help individuals assist someone experiencing mental health or substance use concerns or crises. Participants will learn about risk factors and warning signs, engage in experiential activities, discuss professional and self-help resources and practice a 5-step strategy to provide support. Mental Health First Aid for high education provides tailored information for college and university communities.
Provides communication, project management, and behavior change training to peer educators.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length of Presentation: 8-10 hours
- Fee: TBD
Participants will learn how to recognize and respond to an alcohol or other drug-related emergency. Participants will also review campus resources, relevant policies and state laws related to emergency response.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students, Faculty and Staff
- Length of Presentation: 1 hour
Presentations and Workshops
Mental Health and Self-Care
Are you feeling anxious about classes, making new friends or life in general?This two-part workshop provides practical, life-long tools to help you manage and reduce feelings of anxiety.
Define what self-care means for you, how it can support your resilience and create a plan that identifies strategies that work for you and reduce barriers to practicing self-care.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length: 1 hour
Do you want to learn new coping skills to manageoverwhelming emotions or feeling out of control?This three-part workshop provides practical skills to help you get back on track and feel better fast.
What is perfectionism and what contributes to it. Learn more about perfectionism and how it can hinder productivity as well as ways to combat this type of thinking to help with academic success and wellness.
- Department:Counseling and Psychiatric Services
- Audience:Students
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
Guidelines for how non-clinical staff and faculty can respond to various presentations of mental health in an academic context are provided, aimed to contribute proactive student support that empowers students to thrive in their academic goals.
- Department:Counseling and Psychiatric Services
- Audience:Staff and Faculty
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
Understand the difference between stress and anxiety, while learning helpful management strategies. Mindfulness techniques will be included, as well as information about resources available on campus.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience:Students
- Length of Presentation: 1 hour
Trauma
Information on what people may experience physically, emotionally and cognitively in the aftermath of a traumatic event. Presentation geared towards people already involved in a helping role or for a class discussing trauma.
- Department:Office of VictimAssistance
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Length of Presentation: 1 hour
This presentations provides psychoeducation on intimate partner abuse, with an emphasis on increasing awareness and understanding of domestic violence, exploring its psychological impact, and empowering both survivors and those who support people with abusive partners) with knowledge of their rights, options, and resources.
- Department:Office of VictimAssistance
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Length of Presentation: 1 hour
This session will focus on learning more about vicarious trauma, compassion satisfaction vs. fatigue, burnout and self-care. Explore barriers to caring for ourselves and how to look at new ways that can be accessible to everyone.Presentation geared toward students, staff and faculty who work in fields/roles that can have vicarious trauma (hearing about other people's traumatic experiences). As Audre Lorde says, “caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.”
- Department:Office of VictimAssistance
- Audience: Students in a leadership/helping role, faculty and staff
- Length of Presentation: 1hour
After a traumatic experience, usually friends, mentors, family and sometimes faculty/advisors are the first to be told about these experiences. How one responds matters as it can impact healing, as well as whether the survivors will seek additional support. This session will focus on skills that address how to respond to someone after they disclose a traumatic or life disrupting event. This session can also include information for responsible employees on complying with their CU sharing requirements in a trauma informed way.
- Department: Office of VictimAssistance
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Length of Presentation: 45-60 minutes
If you have a CU IdentiKey, you may also at your convenience through Percipio (approximately 30-40 minutes).
This presentation provides an introduction into how repeated discriminatory experiences can produce a traumatic response. Participants will learn how oppression can impact people’s stress responses and neurobiological development, and how to work effectively with people who have experienced oppressive trauma. Additionally, this presentation also addresses the personal and community impacts of working within social justice, and how to care for oneself and one's community.
- Department: Office of Victim Assistance
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Length: 1 hour
Sexual Health and Body Image
In this discussion-based session, participants explore what ideas and messages influence our beliefs, decisions and communication about sex. We discuss consent, communication, pleasure, alcohol and sexual assault. Information and resources specific to the CU community are provided.
Learn about how body image impacts wellbeing and discover empowering ways to curate and enjoy your social media.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
This workshops offers healthy communication strategies and information on safer sex practices and sex positivity.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience:Students
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
Alcohol and Other Drugs
Learn how to recognize and respond to hazing behaviors and understand CU ý hazing policies, procedures, and support resources.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
Knowing how to party smart can help keep you and your friends safe. Explore what party culture means at CU while learning skills to have a better time and look out for one another.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
Learn about the history of vaping,prevalence at CU, impacts of vaping, harm reduction and abstinence strategies, and available resources.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience:Students, Faculty and Staff
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
Leadership and Life Skills
What does loneliness look like on a college campus? Learn more about how to make meaningful connections and how it can improve both your health and your experience at CU.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience:Students
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
This interactive session uses real-world examples to explore factors that promote or impede bystanders from helping. Participants brainstorm strategies for intervening effectively and reducing harm when they witness situations where help may be needed. Our Bystander Strategies handout is a resource used in the session.
This presentation is a great fit for student mentors and/or peer supporters. Students will learn about the process people go through when making a change and how to best support them at each stage. Students will gain and practice skills to help support others in clarifying and implementing their goals.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience: Students, faculty and staff
- Length of Presentation: 1-1.5 hours
Attitudes and schemas are developed about people and groups of people that affect our understanding and actions without our awareness or intentional control. This workshop examines common mental shortcuts and key areas where they affect our work, interactions and decision-making processes. Participants explore personal and group practices that can help reduce mental shortcuts and improve productivity, engagement and success. Our Practices that Minimize Cognitive Bias handout is a resources for this session.
Learn tips and tools on how to take care of yourself while leading others, to promote self-care within your team, and to recognize, manage and avoid passing unhealthy stress to others.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length of Presentation: 1 hour
This skills-based session focuses on addressing difficult interactions and conversations with others. It includes practice of effective approaches for when conflicts and concerns arise at work or in an academic setting, and ways to set the stage for more positive and productive interactions.
Health Promotion’s peer wellness coaches, participants will identify helpful strategies for managing workload and balancing academics with other commitments to foster increased well-being.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length of Presentation: 1 hour
Explore the link between sleep, health and academics while learning strategies for better sleep.
- Department:Health Promotion
- Audience:Students
- Length of Presentation:1 hour
Disability Services
- Maintaining Wellness
- Note-Taking Strategies
- Reading Strategies
General Health
Learn about departments and services on campus within Health & Well-being (Disability Services, CAPS, Health Promotion, OVA, Medical Services and more)
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students, faculty, staff, prospective students and families
- Length: 30 minutes (flexible)
Help students de-stress by engaging in hands on, creative activities such as: DIY aromatherapy, slime, and/or stress balls. Hosted, plug-and-play, or toolkit options. If hosted/facilitated, peer educators from Health Promotion will engage students in conversations about stress reduction and self-care.
- Department: Health Promotion
- Audience: Students
- Length: Varies depending on departmental request/need
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- Sidewalk Talks
- Peer Wellness Coaching
- Buffs Discuss
- Nicotine Cessation Coaching
- Exploring Substance Use