Program Request Procedure:

To request a program for you and a group of your friends, for your floor, or for your hall, class, or club, you have a few different procedural options. We prefer at least two weeks advanced notice to process your programming request. You can choose a program from the list provided below or have a program designed for your group's specific needs. To request a program you may:

1. Complete the online PROGRAM REQUEST FORM; or

2. Call Wellspring at (302) 831-3457. Our secretary will take all the necessary information needed to process your request; or

3. Come into the Wellspring office at 231 South College Avenue (2nd Floor) to complete a hard copy of the request form.

Once you have placed your request, allow a few days for us to plan your program. Someone will be back in touch to confirm the date and time for your program either via phone or email within eight business days.

Available Programs:

MIND, BODY, AND SOUL...HOLISTIC WELLNESS EDUCATION--

The goal of wellness is to increase one's level of health and health awareness. Wellness programming teaches how to take a preventative and enriching "outlook and inlook" on your lifestyle and total well-being. As part of the program, peer educators help individuals assess their own current level of health and build their own "wellness wheel". Improvement of one's over all well-being is also encouraged through a focus on developing one's personal health plan. With greater personal awareness one can move forward on the health continuum, from disease-- to lowered stress-- to high level health fitness. Ultimately there is no maximum to the health we can attain.

STUDENTS OF SUBSTANCE...ALCOHOL AND DRUG AWARENESS--

A program can be designed to include one or more of these topics AND to suit your group's specific needs. Wellspring will provide information as well as engage participants in self-exploration and values clarification exercises which may help students to evaluate their own substance use behaviors and patterns. Interactive and fun games and exercises, such as Jeopardy, are used to present factual information while engaging students in the process of sharing and connecting with their fellow peers. Videos are also available to generate discussion, such as "Binge Drinking Blowout".

HEALTHY SEXUALITY--

Young adults of all orientations are encouraged to develop an individualized, healthy, sexual self-identity; regardless if they choose to be sexually active or not! Wellspring will be glad to provide information covering any topic of sexuality requested; such as Abstinence, Safer Sex, Condom Awareness, STD's, HIV/AIDS, Reproductive Health, Breast Self-Exam, Testicular Self-Exam, Contraception, Pregnancy, and Relationship Communication Issues. Interactive and fun values clarification exercises will be lead by knowledgeable peers so as to facilitate comfort and ease in learning. "Sexual Jeopardy", condom races, sexual props show and tell, free condoms and free dams are only some of the benefits to having Wellspring provide your sexuality programming!

STRESS MANAGEMENT --

Wellspring provides a standard stress management program called "I COPE" which provides a short-hand to remembering and applying daily ideas which help deal with and reduce stress. As part of any stress management instruction, we will provide information on the symptoms and effects of stress as well as offer effective methods to manage and decrease stress. The peer educators can also lead individual students through alternative and complimentary ways to decrease their stress and maximize their health, such as meditation, yoga, guided imagery, music and/or aroma therapy.

MASSAGE...SHARED STRESS MANAGEMENT--

In concert with our holistic philosophy we also offer programs in non-sensual, back massage or hand massage. We provide peer-led programs to increase student comfort. As part of the program, each participant receives a half-hour back massage from and then gives a half-hour back massage to a fellow participant. The program takes about 1.5 hours to complete.

JUST DO IT...FITNESS AND NUTRITION ENHANCEMENT--

Peers work with peers to increase knowledge and understanding about how individualized improvements in fitness and nutrition may enhance one's overall well-being. We can help students to assess their personal fitness and nutrition needs, go over the basics of nutrition and the food guide pyramid, and/or teach students the basics of ‘exercising for health'. Referrals will be made to the student fitness centers or the on-campus dieticians for individuals interested in developing a personalized exercise or eating plan. Whether you are just thinking about a change in your lifestyle or you want to improve upon the present ways you are integrating fitness and nutrition in your life, we at Wellspring are here to help get you started.

DISORDERED EATING

Educational workshops on anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and compulsive over-eating as well as other less-publicized eating concerns. The program will cover diagnosis criteria for each disorder, warning signs, and symptoms for each disorder, physical complications associated with each disorder, and some general background or why eating disorders occur.

IMAGE...IMAGINE A HEALTHY ONE

Gentle discussions can be facilitated regarding one's own body image and its connector to the influences of popular media. One goal of this program would be to provide young people with strategies to improve their attitudes regarding weight and thinness and resist outside pressures which so often can become a central focus in how they feel about themselves. Peer educators will bring along tokens for participants to help remind them of how special they are.

HOW TO BE A GOOD FRIEND TO A PERSON WITH AN EATING DISORDER?

The Promoters of Wellness can teach some specifics about how to be as supportive as possible without overextending yourself while helping your friend. The peer educators can also talk with you about local resources, including books and online services, which might be of help to you and your friend.

SURVIVAL...SAFE COLLEGE RELATIONSHIPS--

Sexual Offense Support Services (S.O.S.) at the University of Delaware provides interactive and preventative presentations regarding sexual assault, date and acquaintance rape, including awareness of the risk of alcohol and other date rape drugs, childhood sexual abuse, and dating violence. As a group, S.O.S. actively works to (1) dispel the myths, misunderstandings, and mis-communication which surround the issue of sexual offense; (2) increase the awareness that assault can happen to anyone, women and men, old and young alike; and (3) encourage the difficult and on-going healing process of survivors. To request an S.O.S. Program, check out their page about SOS Programs.

EVERYONE LOVES A QUITTER!

One who quits Tobacco that is. Think the effects of your occasional social smoking or chewing will not catch up with you? Think you will quit as soon as you graduate? Think again! Let the peer educators show you an outrageous new video about the effects of tobacco on young smokers and chewers. It is sure to have you reconsidering your choice to chew or smoke.

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