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Fall 2011
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Events Calendar - Fall 2011
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SOME OF OUR UPCOMING EVENTS!
- SEASONAL FLU VACCINE CLINIC Wednesday, October 5, 2011 Granite State Room, MUB 10:00a.m.- 5:00p.m. Charges: $20/students and $25/faculty and staff (No fee for Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (HPHC) subscribers who who show a vaild HPHC card.). Payment can be made by credit card (MasterCard/Visa), check, cash or CATS Cache. The cost of the vaccine is not covered by the Student Health Benefit Plan (SHBP). Please allow 20 minute wait time after receiving the vaccine.
- Inner Beauty……Love Your Body, Ease Your Mind a monologue-based play that examines the relationships that people from a wide cross-section of backgrounds have with their bodies, Wednesday, 10/5, 7:00 p.m., Strafford Room, MUB
- Fat Talk Free Week Help change the conversation! Watch for events during the week of October 16-22, 2011. For more information on nutrition and body image issues: http://www.unh.edu/health-services/ohep/body_image.html
- World Aids Day Wednesday November 30, Thursday , December 1, 2011 Strafford Room, MUB
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- Good Eats Cooking Class Can’t Cook? Living Off Campus? Attend a FREE 4-week hands-on cooking class. All participants enjoy FREE food made by their own hands! Class limited to 15 students and is held at Stillings beginning 9/20 and endings 10/11 (Tuesday nights, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.) http://www.unh.edu/health-services/index.cfm
- Being Fierce and Fabulous You will have a chance to connect with other women in a safe and confidential environment and gain confidence in who you are on the inside and outside in this 8-week group for college women. Fridays, 12:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Group starts 9/30. Learn more and register online! www.unh.edu/health-services/fabulouswomen Sponsored by the Office of Health Education and Promotion, Health Services (862-3823) and the Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program (SHARPP) (862-3494)
- LIVING WELL With Chronic Illness Support Group Do you have a chronic illness such as: IBD, asthma, diabetes, lupus, celiac disease or Crohn’s disease, depression? Learn to live healthy, connect with others, care for yourself and relax. Meets weekly, 9/26 -12/19, Mondays, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m., Health Services Conference Room, 2nd Floor. For information or to register, call 862–3823.
- Your Ultimate Mindful Eating Experience This Mindful Eating Group will focus more on how to eat rather than what to eat or what not to eat, Group discussions, Activities to practice mindfulness-based eating, Meditations on eating, hunger, cravings, and loving kindness. Fridays beginning 10/7 – 11/18, 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon. Health Services Conference Room. For more info or to register: http://www.unh.edu/health-services/ohep/nutrition_eatingmindfully.html
- Attracted to Addicts This five week series will provide participants the opportunity to learn the reasons why people are attracted to addicts, addiction and addictive behaviors. It will explore what sets the stage for these patterns and offer guidelines for finding a way out of this cycle through personal change. This new series beginning in November (time and Day TBA). Anyone interested in attending this series should contact Melissa.nicholson@unh.edu or call 862-3823 for more information.
Health and Wellness Weekly Programming
- Meditate Your Way to Wellness (Guided Meditation), Tuesdays, 12:45 -1:15 p.m., MUB Room, 340 http://www.unh.edu/health-services/ohep/meditation.html
- Yoga Class for Students, Wednesdays and Fridays, 12:00 -1:00 p.m., Please bring a mat or towel. Wildcat Den, MUB http://www.unh.edu/health-services/ohep/yoga.html
- Sex Talk: Conversations about sex, sexuality, gender and making healthy decisions, Wednesdays, 12:00 –1:00 p.m., room 304, MUB
- Confidential HIV Counseling and Testing – Thursdays Health Services provides a confidential walk-in HIV counseling/testing clinic. Thursdays (during academic year)11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Cost per test is $25 and you obtain your results in 20 minutes. No appointment needed. If you are unable to attend the walk-in clinic, you may call (603) 862-1806 to make an appointment to get tested.
- Massage Therapy with licensed massage therapist, available 6 days/week, traditional $35 for students and hot stone $45 for students), Appointments, call (603) 862-3823 or online: http://www.unh.edu/health-services/healthonline/ Learn More: http://www.unh.edu/health-services/ohep/massage.html
- Biofeedback for stress management and wellnessBiofeedback technology uses electronic equipment to measure and monitor changes in your internal physiological state while teaching breathing, relaxation and meditation exercises. Individual sessions with a computer-based biofeedback program are available to UNH students, at no cost. To Make an Appointment Online: http://www.unh.edu/health-services/healthonline/ Learn More: http://www.unh.edu/health-services/ohep/biofeedback.html
- Light Therapy Health Services offers free light therapy to current UNH students, faculty and staff. Light therapy is one form of treatment for Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D). To Make an Appointment Online: http://www.unh.edu/health-services/healthonline/ Learn More: http://www.unh.edu/health-services/ohep/sad-lighttherapy_main.html
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- Actors and actresses needed! Inner Beauty: Love Your Body, Ease Your Mind, is looking for students to perform in our second annual production. These individuals grapple with issues of body-confidence, self-esteem, compulsive exercise, addiction, and disordered eating. Volunteers for this play do NOT need experience in acting or theatre. Just bring your enthusiasm and passion. Contact: Suzanne.sonneborn@unh.edu
- Recovery Mentors – A peer to peer support program which links trained students who are committed in their recovery and interested in providing individual support, information and appropriate referrals to UNH students who maybe struggling with alcohol, tobacco and other drug issue and/or concerns. Anyone interested should contact Melissa.nicholson@unh.edu or call 862-3823 for more information.
- Become a S.A.F.E. (Substance Awareness through Functional Education) Peer Educator This peer education program directly supports prevention efforts across the UNH campus by participating in select, high visibility events like the first six weeks Initiative to educate Freshman about the risks of drinking, the Great American Smoke out in November, National Alcohol Awareness Month in April, MUB information tables and educational presentations at resident Halls, fraternities and sororities throughout the year. Peer education training and certification will be provided. This group meets on Fridays at noon. Anyone interested should contact Melissa.nicholson@unh.edu or call 862-3823 for more information.
- Digital Storytelling WorkshopThe Office of Health Education and Promotion will offer their Digital Storytelling Workshop Series again this October (Time and day TBA). The series will provide participants with the opportunity to write and illustrate their personal journeys of resilience and recovery using multi-media software and their choice of photos, video, original art work, acting, movement etc. in a supportive and creative environment. A final multimedia piece will be completed by the end of the workshop series. Anyone interested should contact Melissa.nicholson@unh.edu or call 862-3823 for more information.
- SPRING Academic Internship Opportunities in the Office of Health Education and Promotion, information sessions 10/26, 4:00 –5:00 p.m., room 321, MUB and 10/27, 1:00 –2:00 p.m., room 304, MUB, applications required, available online in mid-October, http://www.unh.edu/health-services/ohep/internships.html
View Facebook or UNH Calendar for full listing of events. If you have questions, please call (603) 862-3823 or send an email to health.services@unh.edu
