Get Engaged in Wellbeing
Get Engaged in Wellbeing
The Office of Wellbeing provides a variety of opportunities for students to get engaged in wellbeing at Wake! Opportunities range from joining a Student Wellbeing Impact Group (SWIG) to employment.
Student Wellbeing Impact Groups
The Student Wellbeing Impact Groups (SWIG) offer a volunteer-based pathway for student involvement, connection, community, and introductory skill development for future careers in social work, medicine, public health, health education, and many more. Graduate students are welcome to join any of these groups. These groups are topic-specific and generally meet weekly.
The Student Wellbeing Impact Groups include:
SHAG educates and promotes sexual health to our campus community. This is done through a variety of student-led events, and supporting the Safer Sex Express service. Contact Marian Trattner at for more information.
The Body Project is a peer group-based intervention that provides a forum for students to confront unrealistic appearance ideals and develop healthy body image and self-image. Contact Lori Tyson-Jamison for more information.
MHA is a group focused on supporting the mental health of students through various programs and campaigns, including supporting the We Are Wake campaign and collaborating with Student Government during Mental Health Week. Contact Lori Tyson-Jamison for more information.
ALIVE is a peer education group focused on preventing interpersonal violence such as dating violence, sexual harassment, sexual assault, and stalking through programming and education on healthy relationships, consent education, policy change, and more. This group is grounded in advocacy and is survivor-centered. Contact Hannah Dean at for more information.
Deacon Campus Warriors is a student group that aims to educate the campus community about eating disorders by participating in awareness events on campus in collaboration with NEDA (National Eating Disorder Association). Contact Lori Tyson-Jamison for more information.
Wake Forest is committed to a comprehensive approach to wellbeing, which actively advances the work of campus-wide public health coalitions to elevate the work of the eight (8) dimensions of wellbeing within the framework of the Thrive initiative. This work happens through the Thrive Collective Impact Coalitions. Students are welcome to join any one of the coalitions! Contact Becca Fuss at for more information.
Peer Education
Are you passionate about promoting wellbeing at Wake? Are there specific wellbeing issues that you wish we knew more about or better addressed as a campus? Are you excited by a student leadership role that is aimed at helping fellow students be knowledgeable about wellbeing? If so, a job as a Peer Educator may interest you! The Office of Wellbeing has two different peer education opportunities. These include:
We Ambassadors are peer educators who are cross-trained in mental health with a focus on Wake Forest’s WE Care Campaign. Each semester, they commit to 12 hours of peer education work by co-facilitating a minimum number of workshops for their peers and contributing to WE Care signature programs within the Health and Wellbeing Team of Campus Life. Interested in becoming a We Ambassador? Share your interest here.
This position is responsible for supporting the Office of Wellbeing by providing peer-to-peer education about personal and collective wellbeing topics through the Thrive 8 dimensions of wellbeing framework that impact college students. This position supports facilitating the delivery of evidence-based wellbeing initiatives. This includes developing (i.e. writing) and facilitating regularly occurring workshops; supporting the Office of Wellbeing’s programs and awareness events; creating printed materials and resources; doing outreach in the form of tabling; managing and producing content for a social media account; and serving as reliable campus leaders who can competently discuss sensitive issues and connect students to appropriate campus resources.
This position provides essential support for the Office of Wellbeing, ensuring the efficient, welcoming, and organized functioning of the physical office space and providing comprehensive logistical support to all program areas. This role supports the department’s daily operations.
To find out more information about these positions and see current job opportunities in our office, go to Wake Forest’s Learn and Earn Website.
Benefits of Getting Engaged in Wellbeing
– Make a difference in wellbeing of the WFU campus community through purposeful educational and advocacy efforts
– Find community and connect with other students interested in wellbeing
– Access to funding to plan programs and events
– Engage in specialty trainings around wellbeing
– Build your resume
– Increase leadership and professional skills in:
- Public Health
- Health Education
- Health Promotion
- Public speaking
- Facilitation and curriculum development
- Event planning
- Social media creation
- Marketing
- Program planning and development