Our vision for the Center for Student Wellness is to cultivate an environment where students are able to meet their health needs, define wellness for themselves, to listen to and honor their bodies, minds, and souls, and to create a balanced and sustainable life.

Center Details

Our Mission

In the Center for Student Wellness, we take a holistic and inclusive approach to health. We believe wellness is an ongoing and personal journey, cultivated and sustained by a sense of belonging in the larger community.

Diversity Statement

As we strive to build a culture of well-being at md传媒国产剧 College, we acknowledge our responsibility to create spaces where all identities are welcome and valued. We aim to keep this commitment at the forefront through engaging with and learning from diverse perspectives with the goal of providing every student the opportunity to forge their own pathway to wellness.

Our goals

  • Educate students on the lifelong benefits of maintaining a healthy and well-balanced lifestyle
  • Empower students to make informed decisions and develop skills that enhance wellbeing
  • Foster a campus environment in which students thrive intellectually, spiritually, socially, and physically by developing collaborative, cross-University relationships and educational outreach guided by our unique Jesuit Catholic mission.
  • We are working to build a campus community in which everyone has an opportunity to feel well and whole!

Office Learning Outcomes

  1. Reflect on personal attitudes and beliefs in order to enhance positive perceptions of self
  2. Develop skills and strategies to maintain a well-balanced lifestyle听
  3. Make informed choices that reduce harm and promote personal well-being

Program Learning Outcomes

QPR Suicide Prevention

  • Increase awareness of stigma and understand suicide as a public health issue
  • How to recognize someone at risk for suicide
  • How to Question, Persuade and Refer someone who may be suicidal
  • How to access local and national referral resourcesHow to offer hope, and save a life

Journey to Wellness

  • Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of one's health including prevention approaches,and听 self-care practices
  • Students will be able to describe Health & Wellness programs and services offered, how to access them and value to their well-being

Learning outcomes for Wellness Coaches

  • Learn about health and increase your health knowledge
  • Develop coaching and facilitation skills
  • Foster the ability to empower others to reach their personal wellness goals
  • Gain career and leadership skills
  • Serve the md传媒国产剧 College community


Learning outcomes for Student Participants

  • Students will reflect on personal attitudes and beliefs towards health in to have positive perceptions of self (discuss current and personal health behaviors and/or perceptions)
  • Students will develop skills and strategies to maintain a well-balanced lifestyle (create two concrete goals for improving or maintaining their wellness)
  • Students will make informed choices that reduce harm and promote personal well-being (identify at least one campus resource available to assist in meeting their wellness goals)


BASICS听 (Brief Alcohol Screening and Intervention for College Students)

  • Through (2) 90 minute sessions, students will learn about the harmful effects of alcohol and useful strategies to minimize risks
  • Students will increase motivation to change risky behaviors
  • Students will decrease their high risk drinking and will experience fewer negative consequences from alcohol.

BASICS Booster

  • Students will review their alcohol use pattern and make any needed changes that will support experiencing fewer negative consequences from alcohol.听

CODE (Cannabis and Other Drugs Education)

  • Students will identify how their cannabis use impacts school, relationships, sports, sleep and daily routines
  • Students will identify other substances often used on campuses and how they impact student life听
  • Students will learn withdrawal symptoms of cannabis addiction and what constitutes substance use disorder

ChooseWell

  • Students will learn the impact alcohol has on听 behavior and decision making and reflect on their alcohol use.
  • Students will develop skills and strategies to help reduce risk and support any desired changes. (create two concrete goals for improving or maintaining these goals)

Cannabis Assessment

  • Students will identify and implement safer and healthier choices regarding cannabis use.听
  • Students will gain self-awareness and听 personal responsibility for their cannabis use.听 Students will be motivated to make changes in their use that will support and improve their personal wellness.听

Substance Use Assessment

  • Students will Identify their patterns of alcohol or other substance use and set goals that will support healthier choices regarding use.
  • Students will identify at least one campus resource that will support their healthy choice around use or non use of alcohol and /or听 substance use.

Contact Info

Contact Us

Center for Student Wellness
Gasson Hall, Suite 025
617-552-9900
bwell@bc.edu

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Hours

Academic Year: Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Summer: Monday through Thursday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

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Stop by the Health Hub!

Health Hub is a new space in the basement of Gasson (outside of 013) to study and relax. This space features bean bag chairs, lap desks, coloring pages, stress balls, and feel good quotes. Come check us out!听听

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