Get Involved
Get Involved
Student Wellbeing offers several paid opportunities, unpaid internships and volunteer opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students interested in health and wellbeing. Many of these positions include opportunities to hone public speaking skills, presentation development and facilitation, event planning, marketing, peer support and more! If you’re interested in being a change agent for campus wellbeing, please apply to get involved!
Peer Education Opportunities
Blue Hens CARE Peer Educators
Blue Hens CARE peer educators advocate for a community that cares and looks out for one another. They believe it is everyone's business to prevent sexual misconduct and are dedicated to promoting healthy relationship behaviors.
Blue Hens CARE Goals
- Provide sexual misconduct prevention education and outreach
- Support students in building a caring community through bystander intervention using the CARE strategies:
- Create distraction
- Act directly
- Rally others
- Extend support
- Promote healthier relationships by thinking critically about unhealthy behaviors
- Transform the culture by preventing violence using a comprehensive sex education model
Training Requirements
Blue Hens CARE peer educators are expected to complete 30 hours of training during March and August before facilitating programs in pairs.
Compensation
$15 per hour
How to Apply
Recruitment takes place each spring semester, with training the following August and March.
For more information, email jsampson@udel.edu.
Support of Survivors (SOS)
Support of Survivors Peer Educators (SOS) facilitate interactive sexual misconduct programs that focus on:
- Understanding sexual violence and dating/domestic violence and/or stalking.
- How to support survivors and build community support.
- Understanding how violence impacts a student and the campus community.
A peer educator from SOS can provide in-person support during events and programs that have themes of sexual misconduct and may have an emotional impact on participants.
Training Requirements
Support of Survivors Peer Educators are expected to complete an in-depth training program before facilitating programs or providing audience support.
Compensation
$15 per hour
How to Apply
Recruitment takes place each spring semester, with training the following August.
Healthy Hens Peer Educators
Healthy Hens peer educators provide information and resources for a variety of wellness topics to help students improve their overall wellbeing. Peer educators empower UD students to improve their health and wellness with the support of Student Wellness and Health Promotion, Student Health Services and the Center for Counseling and Student Development, as well as other UD resources.
The goals of Healthy Hens peer educators are to:
- Identify, educate and assist all students in need of health and wellness services and provide appropriate referrals as needed.
- Provide a variety of campus-wide events and educational outreach efforts that aid in enhancing aspects of health and wellness, including, but not limited to, physical and mental health.
- Assist students in meeting their personal goals through the support of healthcare professionals and peer interactions.
- Encourage lifelong healthy behaviors that will foster students' long-term health and wellbeing, as well as chronic disease prevention or management.
Training Requirements
Healthy Hens are expected to attend required trainings. Trainings take place on a consistent basis throughout the semester in order to prepare peer educators to perform their role.
Compensation
$15 per hour with a maximum of 10 hours per week during fall and spring semesters
How to Apply
Recruitment takes place on an as-needed basis, and includes a required orientation/training at the start of the semester of employment. Volunteer opportunities are not available.
Email healthyhens@udel.edu for more information!
Internships
Internships are available on a rolling basis throughout the fall and spring semesters. Applications will be posted as positions become available.
Currently all internship opportunities have been filled. Please check back for our next available internships!