The Refresh Sleep program aims to provide Lakehead students, staff and faculty with the skills and strategies to achieve more restful nights.

safeTALK is a 4-hour, in-person workshop to build skills in suicide prevention. Participants will learn how to recognize and engage with someone thinking about suicide, overcome attitudes that act as barriers to help, talk openly about suicide and connect with intervention resources for further support.

Through presentations, audiovisuals, small group discussion and scenario practice, you will learn a 4-step TALK model and practical steps to help activate a suicide alert that connects people having thoughts of suicide with more specialized intervention care and relevant resources.

All participants will receive a learning booklet, resources and a Certificate of Completion.

Registration is required, space is limited.

Join the Lakehead Thunderwolves team in raising awareness for suicide prevention and participate in the first-ever Take It in Strides Run/Walk at Boulevard Lake.

This event is to remember loved ones lost to suicide and support those battling with mental illness by offering a safe space to recognize that their community is here to help. Proceeds will be donated to the Canadian Mental Health Association and Children’s Centre Foundation. 

Participants can sign up for 3km walk, 5km or 10km.

The It's Your Move Crew has a new fall challenge this semester! Each week we'll post a new bingo card with physical activities and you'll try to complete a line. Each line completed will equal an entry into a prize basket with Lakehead gear.  

Once you sign up, you'll get an email with information on how to join our Strava group (totally free!). A new card will be posted every Monday morning- when you upload a workout, just include which square you are crossing off in the post. At the end of each week, we'll keep track of those who have completed a line and add those participants to the draw. The more weeks you complete a line, the more chances you will have to win! 

The challenge is open to students, faculty, staff and alumni from both campuses but only current students are eligible for the prize! 

Watch for weekly tips to help complete the bingo activities on the @lakeheadcampusrec Instagram account.

Participating in physical activity is very safe for MOST people. A PAR-Q will tell you whether it is necessary for you to seek further advice from your doctor OR a qualified exercise professional before becoming more physically active.

As we launch our new guide Fostering Wellness on Campus: Resources for Faculty, Student Health and Wellness invites instructors and faculty to visit our centre and have a discussion about mental health at Lakehead, how Student Health and Wellness supports students and strategies that faculty can adopt into their own practice to support their own well-being along with our students.

Refreshments will be provided.

The Lakehead University Social Committee is inviting faculty, staff, and students to participate in a fun afternoon with their peers and colleagues!

Join us as Lakehead Rocks Lake Tamblyn - in celebration of a great summer and the beginning of a new academic year.

The afternoon will be filled with games, prizes, music, karaoke, and delicious food!

We will be collecting LUSU Food Resource Centre donations. Food, reusable bags, pet supplies,
toiletry items, and monetary contributions are welcome.

Stop by the courtyard to mix your own mocktail and play some not-drinking games with Student Health and Wellness and friends.

Take a break, step outside and visit with the St. John Ambulance therapy dogs by Lake Tamblyn every Tuesday from 12-1 this summer.

In cases of inclement weather, this event will be moved to the Student Health and Wellness Activity located in the Prettie Residence. 

As staff and faculty, you are often the first to recognize that a student is in distress so it is important that you feel equipped to identify these behaviours and also understand how you can help.  The Supporting Students in Distress Guide and accompanying workshop outline the various levels of distress and the resources you can provide for a student in each level of distress. \

The workshop will help participants:

• Explore some of the key guidelines on how to observe, engage and refer students in distress;
• Identify specific strategies on how to begin and manage challenging conversations with students who may be in distress;
• Locate some of the main resources—academic, safety and health and wellness—at the University and the wider community;
• Adapt self-care strategies for managing students in distress.

Registration is required, session delivered via Zoom.

Student Health and Wellness is looking for students to sit on the Student Wellness Advisory Team (SWAT) for this upcoming year! 

The group works to facilitate student input into the overall operations and initiatives of Student Health and Wellness, Lakehead University’s Wellness Strategy and Student Health and Wellness Health Promotion Strategy. Students who join are able to add it to their co-curricular record.

Students from both Thunder Bay and Orillia are welcome and those from equity-seeking groups are encouraged to take part. Meetings will occur 2 times per semester over Zoom.