Wellness and Women's Program
Student Health 101: What's In It For You?
Every month all Millersville students, staff, and faculty receive an email describing the content of the most recent edition of Student Health 101, the online health and wellness publication provided by the Wellness & Women's Center. The magazine contains custom pages from various programs around campus, including stories written by students and staff that are specifically geared towards our University, as well as national pages written by students from all over the country. In each edition you will find fitness tips to stay in shape and relieve stress, recipes that are quick, inexpensive, and created specifically for students, and many other articles dealing with all walks of student life. Click on the link to view this month's edition, where you can also enter to win $1000.
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Welcome
The Elsie S. Shenk Wellness and Women's Program provides lifestyle education programs, hosts awareness events and information tables, and provides educational resources to students on a wide collection of topics including: alcohol, body image, healthy relationships, nutrition, safer sex, sexual assault, and stress. Students are trained as peer educators (Empower Peer Educators and Peer Health Educators) to reach out to the campus community and provide individuals with important information on the benefits of leading a healthy lifestyle, resources and services available at Millersville University, and how to safely make the most out of their college experience.
Mission Statement
The Wellness Center at Millersville University promotes a campus environment supportive of healthy lifestyles. Through peer education and collaborations with campus and community organizations, the Wellness Center engages students in making educated and responsible choices about their health, and provides health information, referrals, and awareness programming on a variety of wellness-related issues.
The Women's Center at Millersville University promotes equity and enriches the personal, professional, and academic lives of women within the University community. Through peer education, the Women's Center educates men and women of the University community about gender-related issues, empowers women to make healthy lifestyle decisions, and promotes a safe campus climate. The Women's Center collaborates with campus and community organizations to provide information, advocacy, referrals, and awareness programming on a variety of gender-related issues including sexual assault, domestic violence, body image, healthy relationships, and harassment.
Vision Statement
The Elsie S. Shenk Wellness and Women's Program will educate, empower and engage students in making responsible lifestyle decisions and will be identified as a significant resource for information and referrals on campus.
News
04-14-2012 - The results of the 2012 FREE Yourself 5K Run/Walk are now available. Click on "View More" to find out where you placed. Also, if you would like to see the pictures from the race, contact the Montour House and we will send them to you by email.View More
Events Calendar
- There are currently no events.
Contact Information
Montour House
Millersville University
PO Box 1002
Millersville, PA 17551
Tel: (717) 872-3841
Email: wellnesscenter@millersville.edu or womenscenter@millersville.edu
Interested in requesting one of our peer education programs? Visit the peer education link on the left side of this screen and then follow to the contact us page found on both the Empower Peer Educator and Peer Health Educator pages. For organizations outside of Millersville University, please follow program request for organizations outside of Millersville University page which is also found under the Peer Education link.
