UHW continues to integrate wellbeing into spaces where students are already engaged to build the skills, habits, and support systems they need for academic success. From credit-bearing seminars to embedded resilience education and clinical training, our presence across campus reflects a proactive, student-centered approach.
UGS 110: BOND
Led by RCPD Access Specialists Lindsay Hill, Kelsey Foote, and Savannah Blow, this 2-credit course offered RCPD Building Opportunities for Networking and Discovery (BOND) participants an opportunity to “learn how to college” by developing skills and knowledge to enable a successful transition to college. Instructors craft engaging lessons each week, incorporating the Spartan Resilience Education Snippets Project curriculum, to help students prepare for college life away from home, covering topics such as communication, time management, organization, study and test taking strategies, self-care, mental health, and note taking.
UGS 110-316: Health, Wellness, and Resiliency
Led by RCPD Access Specialists Jennifer Montague and James Madaski, this 1-credit seminar supported first-year students in building resilience, developing and maintaining healthy habits, and strengthening their connection to the MSU community. With 17 students enrolled, the course emphasizes holistic wellbeing and equips students with tools and resources to support their academic transition and long-term success.
UGS 201: Supporting Mental Health Takes All of Us - The Power of Community Driven Approaches
Offered for the first time, this 1-credit seminar, led by CAPS Student Mental Health Response Coordinator, Lauren Enty, provided students with additional opportunities to support their mental health through peer support and community interventions. Fourteen students were provided with a history of peer-to-peer initiatives and their effectiveness, as well as tools for supporting and referring peers with mental health concerns. It gave them an opportunity to apply their learning via Fresh Check Day by planning and staffing a booth focused on suicide prevention, one of the most heavily visited booths by event attendees.
Spartan Resilience Education Snippet Project
The Snippet Project, a resilience training and community building program, was integrated into places where students spend much of their time to increase access, reaching 665 students. Sixteen academic courses incorporated the materials, included first year writing courses, undergraduate seminars (MSU Honors College, College of Arts and Letters, and Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities), and graduate level courses (Social Work and the College of Education). out-of-the-art classroom setting (T-Rex Residential Experience and the Honors College Navigators Program) or as part of their student employment with RHS Student Supervisors.
Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) Training Program
Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) has a rich history of training future mental health clinicians, evolving from a practicum site in the 1950s into a comprehensive, multidisciplinary program. The cohort includes four multidisciplinary master’s interns and doctoral practicum trainees, four doctoral psychology interns, and one postmaster’s clinical fellow in social work.